Attend a Local School Board Meeting
Click here to learn about our Public Policy Priority to advocate for “Equal Access to Quality Public Education for All Students”. We continue to be a presence at San Ramon Valley Unified School District board meetings showing our support for equity in education. Join us at a meeting!
The School Board Project is based on AAUW’s founding purpose to ‘maintain high standards of education for women’ and is responding to membership concern about nationwide movement to ban books and censor curricula in K-12 schools.
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Making a Difference – “Get Out the Vote” Postcards
(August 2024) Nearly two dozen DAW members (plus a few friends) gathered at Judy Lauper’s home to write postcards to get-out-the-vote (GOTV) on August 19, 2024. Ogie Strogatz was the organizer; she brought packets of postcards and addresses from Reclaim Our Vote, a non-profit and non-partisan project that focuses on increasing BIPOC (Black, indigenous, people of color) voter turnout. Reclaim Our Vote is run by the Center for Common Ground – an organization which works to educate and empower voters of color in voter suppression states.
Attendees made a difference while having fun. Jan Geahry said, “I feel so virtuous! It’s fun to do this in a group, there is a lot of energy in working together. I feel a part of the movement of getting people out to vote.” Lee Garverick said, “What a great feeling to be able to make a real difference! I learned that sending postcards can increase voting by about 2%, which can swing many elections.”
Here’s an example of what we can do to help build encourage equitable access to voting. Many thanks to everyone who participated and to Judy for hosting!