This posting will be brief because I'm tired and have to be up extremely early tomorrow morning. I spent the day with the National Network to End Domestic Violence in preparation for tomorrow's advocacy day. Tomorrow will be my first experience lobbying on the hill and I'm looking forward to it. I will be shadowing one of my mentors, Colleen Coble, the director of the Missouri Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Colleen received two separate awards today for her absolute amazingness.
It is an honor to spend two days of this week with advocates against domestic and sexual violence from almost every state within the US plus DC and some territories. The people in the room with me today, along with every other individual who works in the anti-domestic and sexual violence field are my heroes.
We were honored to have the following people present to us today (in chronlogical order): Valerie Jarrett (Obama's Senior Advisor), Marylouise Kelley (from HHS), Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (via video), and Catherine Pierce (Acting Director of the Dept. of Justice's Office of Violence Against Women).
At the reception, we heard Secretary Hilda Solis, Vice President Joe Biden (via video), Karen Rogers (Vice President of the Mary Kay Ash Foundation Board of Directors and granddaughter of Mary Kay Ash) Congresswoman Gwen Moore (WI), Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL), Congresswoman Jo Ann Emerson (MO), Congressman Ted Poe (TX) and Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (IL) declare their commitment to ending violence against women and children.
I look forward to seeing some meaningful legislation behind the wonderful speeches I heard tonight. And I look forward to tomorrow's jam packed day.
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I am so proud of you Janie. It's fantastic that you can now be in the room to make change on a national level.
Someday someone like you are now is going to be very excited that YOU were in the room and working for change.
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