Hosts Professional Women in Advocacy Workshop
Speakers include Loyola President Tania Tetlow; New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell and Judy Reese Morse, former deputy mayor of the City of New Orleans and president and CEO of the Urban League of Louisiana, among others
(New Orleans – September 13, 2019) Leading advocacy organization Professional Women in Advocacy hosts a one-day advocacy workshop at Loyola this month featuring professional development programming for women working in government relations, advocacy, public affairs, activism and engagement.
“We are thrilled to bring our workshop to New Orleans,” said LeeAnne Peterson, CEO and founder of the PWIA. “There is a robust advocacy community here doing some very innovative things. We look forward to putting the spotlight on them at this event.”
Loyola President Tania Tetlow and New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell will deliver opening remarks. Judy Reese Morse, former deputy mayor for the City of New Orleans and current president and CEO of the Urban League of Louisiana, will give the keynote address.
The workshop — hosted in partnership by the Women’s Resource Center at Loyola, the Junior League of New Orleans, NOLA 4 Women and Now, Love and other leading organizations — runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on September 25, 2019 at Loyola, with breakfast starting at 8:30 a.m. A host of civic leaders, diversity leaders, and other successful women from business, media, law and politics — many of whom have roots at Loyola — will moderate and lead discussions. Interested participants can register here.
In this “Breakthrough Advocacy” workshop, sessions will center around trends and technologies changing the industry and address how increased youth and diversity in the civic arena is changing the ways in which we most effectively advocate for a cause, organization or industry.
Sessions will also focus on how to use traditional and new media to communicate with policymakers and stakeholders, rules and ethics governing political action committees, and the ways in which diversity may be changing the way we advocate and develop public policy.