WEcon 2016

Last year, as part of an extra credit opportunity for Women’s Studies, I attended WEcon 2015 (Women’s Empowerment conference). It is run by the Women’s Community Center for Central Texas.

It was an awesome experience, and it kind of led me to start exploring ways to give back to the community and especially underprivileged minorities.

Women CTX

What They Do

They hold workshops for bringing women together to discuss social problems in Austin and learn skills for everyday life improvement. I like the approach to the local level because State and National legislation rarely does enough to tackle serious but specific issues such as gentrification and cost of living.
The point of getting these women together is to build each other up. Women are social creatures, and collaboration and group projects are a strength that help develop all the women involved.

My Role

I joined the Logistics and Fundraising planning subcommittees. Hopefully I can lend my skills to them to solve problems for the money side of the event. I know that I wouldn’t be very effective helping with the content because I tend to have very limited scope of understanding to all of the issues that they are interested in covering.

My goal is to get the school involved. Maybe I’ll ask Jo’s Coffee to give some sponsorship. Also, there are a lot of places downtown that would be interested in advertising and helping our cause. More updates to come!

 

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