WAM! Happy Hour Chicago
Friday, Feb. 12, 6:30 p.m.
Matilda
3101 North Sheffield Avenue, Chicago, IL
Want to help start an ongoing WAM! chapter in Chicago? Just want to connect with other like-minded folks interested in working toward gender justice in media, or to reconnect with Chicago WAM!mers you have already met? Join us Friday, Feb. 12, for good people, great conversation, and possible plotting for world domination.
(Wish there was a WAM! chapter nearer to you? Click here.)
Write To Change The World
Saturday, March 6, 10AM – 5PM
Hosted by the Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change
at Simmons College, Boston
The Op-Ed pages of major newspapers are read by diplomats, businesspeople, scholars, and those in the highest levels of government. They can sway public opinion and change the world. A single op-ed can make you part of a national debate. And it’s the one section of the newspaper dedicated to outside contributors and divergent opinions.
This seminar is designed to help you identify the ideas and causes that you care about, and will show you how to write about them to make a difference. You’ll learn how to generate winning ideas, how to craft a powerful argument, how to use news hooks, how to address or preempt your potential critics, how to pitch an idea, and how to frame an issue to make your point and persuade your readers. We will explore ways to write more broadly, to think bigger, and to make a bigger impact on the world. This seminar is not just about writing op-eds–it’s about empowering you to find your voice and make a difference.
Space is limited. Click here to read more, here to register, or here for scholarship info.
WAM! It Yourself
Thursday, March 25-Sunday, March 28
We’re not having a centralized WAM! conference this year, because we’re busy launching a whole organization! But that won’t stop WAM!mers from WAM!ing. Instead, we’re putting together an exciting alternative. On the weekend WAM! would have been – March 25-28, 2010, we’re inviting you to host volunteer-run events in cities across the country and the globe! Click here for all the details…
