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Election 2021 is less than one month away! |
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Voters will head to the polls on November 2nd for regular elections for state legislative and statewide executive offices in Virginia and New Jersey, as well as special congressional elections in Florida and Ohio. This year, Virginia will almost certainly elect the first woman of color to statewide elected executive office, as the race will be contested between Republican Winsome Sears, who identifies as Black, and Democrat Hala Ayala, who identifies as multiracial (Black, Latina, Middle Eastern/North African, and white). Meanwhile, in New Jersey, no Asian or Pacific Islander (API) woman has ever served in the state legislature, despite the fact that more than 10% of the state’s population is Asian or Pacific Islander. That could change this year, with at least 6 API women candidates vying for seats in the New Jersey General Assembly. In special elections, three women are running in the Democratic primary for Florida’s 20th congressional district, which will be held on November 2nd, and, in Ohio, women candidates are running in general contests for both the OH-11 and OH-15 special elections. Also happening on Election Day, Boston will elect for the first time a person of color and a woman as mayor, as Annissa Essaibi George and Michelle Wu compete in the final round of the city's mayoral election (Kim Janey, who became acting mayor when Marty Walsh joined the Biden Cabinet, is the first person to lead the city who was not a white man). Learn more about the women running for office in 2021 on CAWP’s Election Watch page. |
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Eagleton’s Albert W. Lewitt Endowed Lecture: A Conversation with Veronica Duron |
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TOMORROW, October 13th, as part of the Eagleton Institute of Politics’ Albert W. Lewitt Endowed Lecture Series and Hispanic Heritage Month, join Veronica Duron, chief of staff to U.S. Senator Cory Booker, for a virtual conversation as she discusses the importance of diversity in congressional staff. This event, co-sponsored with the Rutgers Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities, Rutgers Center for Latino Arts and Culture, and Rutgers Division of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement, will be moderated by CAWP Director of Research Kelly Dittmar. Learn more about the event and register to attend here. |
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How’s this for a headline? From The Washington Post: “ America’s 50,000 monuments: More mermaids than congresswomen, more Confederates than abolitionists.” Writing about a new report from Monument Lab, the Post chronicles numerous inequities in public monuments and memorials in the United States: “Of the 50 historical figures most frequently honored with a monument, only three were women: Joan of Arc, Sacagawea, and Harriet Tubman. Tubman, the only one of the three who would have called herself American, was born enslaved and was not considered a citizen until she was in her 40s.”
Monuments are more than weathered old stone, they shape our public consciousness, influence our views of leadership, and display the history we choose to reveal…as well as the history we choose to cloister away unseen. What will be our public history? In an essay on our Teach a Girl to Lead® blog, CAWP Associate Director Jean Sinzdak wrote about the CAWP Women Elected Officials Database and its value as a resource to discover trailblazing women worthy of memorialization in public squares throughout America. Read her full piece, Fill Those Empty Pedestals with Pioneering American Political Women, on our Teach a Girl to Lead® website. Read the full report from Monument Lab at their National Monument Audit page. |
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The Eagleton Institute of Politics recently released This Moment in Democracy, a Fall 2021 update on the Institute's work, including information on CAWP’s own educational initiatives, data collection, and scholarly output. Eagleton Director John J. Farmer, Jr. writes in his accompanying message:
The past eighteen months have presented the Eagleton Institute of Politics with challenges unprecedented in its history. Long-time director Ruth B. Mandel, whose spirit continues to animate so much of what we do, passed away from cancer just as the COVID-19 lockdown was being imposed. The global pandemic prevented us from mourning together in person as a community; as the lockdown persisted beyond its original goal of one month to last through the summer, then through the fall semester, then through a complete academic year, it forced us to change the way we met, taught, and interacted.
As you will read, every center at Eagleton met head-on the unique challenges of the past year-and-a-half, and our educational programs transitioned seemingly effortlessly to an online format. Now, as we re-introduce ourselves to the Rutgers campus this fall, we must not lose sight of the perils we still face. We must remember that our work is needed in this moment of democracy - now more than ever.
Read all of This Moment in Democracy here. |
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