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MISSION: Transform policy and culture to create a welcoming, safe, inclusive community and future for all of the young women who live and work in the Metro area.

GOALS:

1. Integrate and Empower: Our chapter seeks to join all people in the DC Metro Area who are interested in advancing the lives of younger women. We aim to draw in and learn from those who have lived here for generations and those who are new to the community or country. We want to connect with those who live in all quadrant of the district and on all street of it suburbs and adjacent towns.  We seek to learn from and build coalitions with established social and community activist and, at the same time, engage, reach out to, and empower the unaffected, unaffiliated, and uninitiated.  

2.  Focus Locally: Our Chapter seeks to affect the lives of younger women through grassroot actions focused specifically, though not exclusively, on backing local activism, art, and everyday revolutions while transforming local policies affecting our communities.  Being seated in the nation’s capital, our chapter will assist our DC sisters who work to change our federal political landscape by providing information about local DC politics or issues.   

3. Raise Consciousness: Our Chapter will engage in consciousness-raising around all forms of oppression working explicitly and ardently to consider, assess, and work to eliminate social constrict such as sexism, classism, racism, heterosexism, homophobia, abilism, xenophobia, urban and educational biases, anti-Semitism, and all other forms of oppression we experience and internalize as members of U.S. society.    

4. Level Playing-field: We will provide a space for young women to connect as young women.  We recognize that within the DC metro area many young women define themselves around their jobs.  We welcome all equally, embracing a diversity of occupations and roles of people working in the interest of younger women.  

5. Act and Educate: We will remain committed to action. We are as committed to making change as we are to building fellowship. We will educate ourselves and other members of our community about the inner workings of local policymaking and we will use that education to make change. Our chapter will take significant action to better our community at least once a quarter and will ensure that every event, meeting, and gathering aims to take our community one step closer to a welcoming, safe, inclusive, community for all of the young women who live and work in the Metropolitan area.


All meetings are at 7:00pm. Contact Brie to find out more about these meetings including receiving
organizing emails with location and meeting agenda information!

Keep up to date information about this and other DC metro programming, Email Stephanie at knowledge.bound@gmail.com

Questions? Write to Jenn Taylor, ywtfdc@gmail.com

How to Join: Click here

Click here to view photos from past events!
District of Columbia
Total Female Population, 2000
 303,232
Number of Women Aged 20-39, 2000
 103,035
% of Female Population Aged 20-39, 2000
 34.0%
% of Women Aged 25 and Older with a Four-Year College Degree or More, 2000 1
 36.8%
% of Women 21 to 64 Years Old With A Disability, 2000 1
 14.2%
% of Women Aged 16 and Over in Labor Force, 2000 1
 60.2%
Earnings Ratio Between Women and Men Who Worked Full-Time, Year-Round in 1999 1
 89.8%
% of Women Aged 18 to 44 in Poverty 1
 21.9%
% of Women Who Voted, 1998 and 2000 2
 59.4%
% of Businesses That are Women-Owned 2
 30.9%
Source: 1 The U.S. Census Bureau, 2000 Census. American Factfinder. http://factfinder.census.gov 2 The Institute for Women's Policy Research. 2004. The Status of Women in the States. Washington, DC: IWPR .


Unmasking Cinderell - October 28th, 2005

Chapter Director: Patricia Mirchandani
Email ywtfdc@gmail.com


Finance Director: Keely Flaherty is originally from outside of Philadelphia, PA and has lived in Silver Spring, MD for just over a year. She received a Bachelors in Political Science from Bucknell University and a Masters in nonprofit Management from The New School. Inspired by volunteer work throughout school and a service year with Americorps NCCC, Keely is committed to working in the nonprofit sector on issues of poverty, housing, and at-risk youth. Currently, she works as a Development Associate with a DC organization that provides housing and support services to at-risk youth and their families. In her free time Keely enjoys volunteering, reading, Netflix, oil painting, and happy hours. Email ywtffinance@gmail.com

Program Director: Adriane Casalotti is originally from New Jersey, but has lived in the DC area for a little over 2 years. She is passionate about many issues that affect Younger Women, particularly women's health and reproductive rights. She currently works as a social worker with at-risk youth in the District as a Pregnancy Prevention Counselor where she provides individual sexual health counseling, leads educational groups and organizes community events. Previously, she worked in politics at a Democratic media firm. In addition to her current position as Program Director of the DC Metro Chapter, she has served as Outreach Director and as the chapter's Newsletter Editor. In her spare time, she enjoys playing volleyball and kickball, doing Sudoku and attending happy hours. A self proclaimed "Supreme Court Junkie," Adriane graduated from the College of William and Mary with a Bachelors degree in Government and a minor in Chinese. Email ywtfprograms@gmail.com

Membership Director: Stephanie Goodwin is 26 and works for Service Employees International Union as the DC Political Community Coordinator. Stephanie went to school in Michigan were she studied Administrative Political Science and Interpersonal Communication. Stephanie started her activism in the environmental movement and while protecting the environment is a concern of hers, she has found that she cares a great deal about working class issues. Because of this passion she founded prison education programs in Michigan and then moved to Maryland to work on a living wage campaign. In addition to Stephanie's union work, she currently volunteers for not only YWTF: DC Metro but also for NOW and DC Urban Debate Leagues. Email ywtfdc.membership@gmail.com

Outreach Director: Beth Nichols-Howarth is a founding member of the Younger Women’s Task Force and former Co-Director of Outreach for the National Coordinating Committee. She came to DC via Boston after receiving her Master’s in Social Work and managing a rape crisis center there. Aiming to focus more on women’s issues at a macro level, she has taken her experience from direct services and applied it to projects addressing various women’s health issues in both the for- and non-profit sectors. In 2005 she coordinated an 11-campus speaking tour aimed at raising awareness of eating disorders and plastic surgery in college-aged girls that received national media attention. She currently works at the American Psychological Association as a Program Officer for Policy and Advocacy in the Schools. She also recently received her 200-hour yoga certification and hopes to start teaching regularly at the end of the summer. Email ywtfdcoutreach@gmail.com

Communications Director: Clara Gutkin was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. Clara has lived the past two years in the Columbia Heights area of Washington, DC. She studied at Drake University, majoring in International Relations, Politics and, Spanish with an emphasis on Peace and Conflict Resolution. She spent time living in Sevilla, Spain as well living in the Balkan's (Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia.) and speaks multiple languages. During YWTF's first year, Clara served as Outreach Director. She currently works for Georgetown University as the Overseas Program Officer for the East Central European Scholarship Program. In her spare time she enjoys sharing spoken word, playing guitar, listening to music, traveling, photography, and fashion/decorating. Outside of her day job you can find Clara at local happy hours if she’s not diligently working on a YWTF DC metro project!  Email info.ywtfdc@gmail.com

 


LOCAL EVENTS/RESOURCES

As we prepare for our transportation town hall meeting I thought this issue of Newsletter resources would focus on the sobering facts of crime in DC Transportation. Click here for the latest statistics; to get more info about crime in the DC Metro system as it becomes available go to http://www.wmata.com/about/mtpd_crime_ytd.cfm. Research Compiled by Emily Skelton.

Interested in finding out more about transportation safety in DC? Check out these sites:

Support our sisters working in the interest of women here in the metro area. Below are links to a few of the many great local organizations, publications, and networking groups focused on Young Women in our communities.

    • Digital Sisters is a non-profit organization created to promote and provide technology education and enrichment for young girls and women of color.More info can be found at http://www.digital-sistas.org
    • EduSeed , a nonprofit organization in Washington, DC., furthers the pursuit of higher education and life-long learning by using models of peer-mentorship and self-empowerment. See www.eduseed.org for more information.
    • HIPS seeks to assist female, male, and transgendered individuals engaging in sex work in Washington, DC in leading healthy lives. More information can be found at www.hips.org.
    • Maryland Federation of Business & Professional Women (BPW/md) was established in 1929 as a nonpartisan, and nonsectarian association. BPW/md promotes equity for all women in the workplace through advocacy, education, and information. See http://www.bpwmaryland.org to find out more.
    • Mothertongue is a community-based organization that works to create a safe space where all women may speak freely and powerfully and have their creative and artistic voices heard through monthly women’s spoken word events and writing/performance workshops. For more information go to http://www.mothertongue.org/about.html
    • SisterMentors program helps women of color Ph.D. students complete their dissertations in exchange for helping girls of color from DC low-income families to achieve their dream of a college education. For more information see www.sistermentors.org
    • The Whitman-Walker Clinic had been compassionately addressing the unmet health needs of gay men and lesbians in the DC Metro Area. Check out their website for more information, www.wwc.org.
    • The Women’s Center works to improve significantly the psychological, career, financial and legal well being of women and families regardless of their ability to pay. Go to http://www.thewomenscenter.org/ to find out more.
    • Woman’s Monthly: DC’s Magazine for Lesbians at http://www.womo.com Woman’s Monthly contains calendar listings, reports on women’s events and groups; and showcases women and women-owned businesses.
    • Women’s Health Virginia is the statewide initiative to promote and improve Virginia women’s and girls’ health and well being. Information can be found at http://www.womenshealthvirginia.org/ The organization focuses attention on the health needs of women and girls in Virginia including economic, educational, cultural, environmental, social, and medical issues.
    • Women’s Information Network (WIN ) i s Washington’s premier professional, political, and social network dedicated to empowering young, Democratic, pro-choice women. http://www.winonline.org/

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