YWCA To Reveal Women's Priorities for Obama Administration

by Jen Nedeau · 2008-11-23 14:05:00 UTC
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Tomorrow I will be speaking at the National Press Club for a YWCA panel, which will share a national survey that indicates the issues that women care about today, in particular women from Generation Y and what that should mean to the Obama administration. The other panelists will include:

I'll be speaking as a representative of Change.org and also as a young women's rights activist. YWCA has asked me to try and communicate the issues that matter most to the women in my generation and also outline how the use of technology can assist those issues.

For those who are unfamiliar, the YWCA USA is a national not-for-profit membership organization dedicated to social service, advocacy, education, leadership development and racial justice. It was established in the United States in 1858, and it is the oldest and largest national organization dedicated to the empowerment of women and girls and the elimination of racism. Through nearly 300 local YWCAs located across the nation in almost every state, and headquartered in Washington, D.C., the YWCA reaches 2.5 million women and girls, as well as their families. Globally, the YWCA USA is part of an international movement at work in 122 countries serving 25 million women and girls worldwide.

I am honored by the opportunity to speak on this YWCA panel and I also hope to credit the experiences I've had with organizations such as the New Leaders Council, the Roosevelt Institution, Mobilize.org and Gen We, which have all helped me identify the young progressive landscape. The work of these organizations in addition to the survey results from the YWCA which will be released tomorrow, will help to outline not only the direction of women's rights movement, but hopefully, the larger progressive agenda as well.

Jen Nedeau Jen Nedeau is a media relations professional and a writer based in New York City.
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