Elección Latina
CAWP together with a steering committee of leaders in the Latino/a community, sponsor Elección Latina, a preconference session of the New Jersey Ready to Run® Campaign Training for Women. Elección Latina participants attend a half-day session that targets issues of particular interest to Latinas running for political office. Elección Latina participants then attend Ready to Run® the next day to learn about the nuts and bolts of working on a campaign.
Ready to Run™ offers a unique opportunity for potential women candidates to hear directly from prominent elected and appointed leaders, campaign consultants, and party officials about how to get Ready to Run®. Topics covered include fundraising, navigating the political parties, working with the media, and developing a campaign plan. More details on Ready to Run™ can be found here.
Elección Latina Steering Committee
Peggy Anastos
LUPE Fund, Inc.
Diana Calle
LUPE Fund, Inc.
Grissele Camacho
LUPE PAC
Milagros Camacho
Patricia Campos Medina
President, LUPE PAC
Maria Del Cid
LUPE Fund, Inc.
Zulima V. Farber, Esq.
LUPE PAC
Lucía Gómez-Jiménez
LIUNA, Local 78 and LUPE PAC
Gilda Morales
Iveth Mosquera
LUPE Fund, Inc.
Andrea Martinez-Mejia
LUPE Fund, Inc.
Sara Peña
President, LUPE Fund, Inc.
Milagros Peralta
LUPE Fund, Inc.
Arlene Quiñones Perez, Esq.
LUPE PAC
Lillian A. Plata, Esq.
Nee Plata Law LLC
Gloria Soto, Esq.
LUPE Fund, Inc.
Noemi Velázquez
LUPE PAC
Questions?
Contact Pooja Prabhakaran at (848) 932-8566 or pprabha@eagleton.rutgers.edu.
Run Sister Run: Women of the African Diaspora Changing the Political Landscape
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AWP, together with a steering committee of African American women leaders, sponsors Run Sister Run: Women of the African Diaspora Changing the Political Landscape, a preconference session of Ready to Run® Campaign Training for Women. Run Sister Run participants attend a half-day session that targets issues of particular interest to African American women running for political office. Run Sister Runparticipants then attend Ready to Run® to learn about the nuts and bolts of working on a campaign.
Ready to Run® offers a unique opportunity for potential women candidates to hear directly from prominent elected and appointed leaders, campaign consultants, and party officials about how to get Ready to Run®. Topics covered include fundraising, navigating the political parties, working with the media, and developing a campaign plan. More details on Ready to Run® can be found here.
Run Sister Run Steering Committee
(Affiliations listed for identification purposes only.)
Tahirah Cooper
Tara Dowdell
The Tara Dowdell Group, LLC
Desha Jackson
New Jersey Women Lawyers Association (NJWLA)
Barbara George Johnson
John S. Watson Institute for Public Policy, Thomas Edison State University
Francesca Dulce Larson
Mosaic Strategies Group
Shoshanna Page
Genia Philip
Questions?
Contact Pooja Prabhakaran at (848) 932-8566 or pprabha@eagleton.rutgers.edu.
Rising Stars: Educating Asian American Women for Politics
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AWP, together with a steering committee of Asian American women leaders, sponsors Rising Stars: Educating Asian American Women for Politics, a preconference session of the Ready to Run® Campaign Training for Women. Rising Stars participants attend a half-day session that targets issues of particular interest to Asian American women running for political office. Rising Stars participants then attend Ready to Run™ to learn about the nuts and bolts of working on a campaign.
Ready to Run® offers a unique opportunity for potential women candidates to hear directly from prominent elected and appointed leaders, campaign consultants, and party officials about how to get Ready to Run. Topics covered include fundraising, navigating the political parties, working with the media, and developing a campaign plan. More details on Ready to Run® can be found here.
Rising Stars Steering Committee
(Affiliations listed for identification purposes only.)
Azra Baig
Member, South Brunswick Board of Education
Cecilia Xie Birge
Former Mayor, Montgomery Township
Zainab Chaudary
Jannie Chung
Councilwoman, Borough of Closter
Ludi Hughes
President and Founder, Asian American Chamber of Commerce
S. Nadia Hussain
Co-Founder, Bangladeshi American Women's Development Initiative
Tina Liu Jen
Morris County Human Relations Commission and 80-20 Initiative of New Jersey
Khyati Y. Joshi
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Uyen "Winn" Khuong
Executive Director, Action Together New Jersey
Rupande Mehta
Thuy Anh Le
Former Member, Hillsborough Township Board of Education
Toral Patel
Cheryl Quinio-Blodgett
Filipino American Political Action Committee
Sapana Shah
Councilwoman, Township of Edison
Jean Trujillo
Member, Hillsborough Township Board of Education
Questions?
Contact Pooja Prabhakaran at (848) 932-8566 or pprabha@eagleton.rutgers.edu.