2021 — April 17 Saturday – STATE MEETING virtually
Your state board has decided that once again this meeting will be offered at no charge. All Washington members are invited to attend. [click for details and how to sign up…]
2021 — June 12, Saturday – Women’s Health Summit — via Zoom
As we were developing this year’s public policy platform, we realized that there are so many issues related to women’s health that we needed gather experts from across the state to help us understand and prioritize what we need to do personally and legislatively. Watch your Evergreen Leader newsletters and this web page for details and how to register.
PAST EVENTS
2021 — Feb. 1 Monday – LOBBY DAY virtually
Karen Anderson, our Public Policy director and Nancy Sapiro, our new lobbyist have presented a virtual Lobby Day for 138 of our members across the state.
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Nov. 2 Ellen Dubois, author of Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote, conducted a Zoom meeting with AAUW-WA members, Click for details…

AAUW WA CELEBRATES APPROVAL R-90!
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In this time of health crisis over many months, all Board events are being held online. You are welcome to attend. Request information from president@aauw-wa.org
August 2020 State Leadership Conference – ONLINE
We had an excellent day VIRTUALLY!
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January 2020 Lobby Day – Click for details…
CANCELLED April 17-19, 2020 – multi-state AAUW convention in Vancouver, Washington. Click for details…
CANCELLED July Tech Trek STEM camps at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma and Eastern Washington University, Cheney. Click here for Tech Trek website and info…
August 2019 State Leadership Conference – Wenatchee – Click for presentations…
April 2019 Annual Meeting in Bellingham

Bellingham Branch President Judith Entwife in her Suffragette costume marking Bellingham Branch’s 100th anniversary
Special speakers: Kim Churches, CEO of national AAUW, Amy Klosterman, Title IX attorney, Washington State Representative Sharon Shewmake, immigration attorneys Sanchez and Pai.

Kim Churches, CEO of national AAUW
January 2019 Lobby Day – Olympia

Port Townsend branch members 2019 Lobby Day
Speakers include Fajer Saeed Ebrahim, a specialist on reproductive justice with Legal Voice, and Pam Crone, a lawyer and lobbyist who has represented AAUW-WA, Legal Voice, and other clients in Olympia.
Get details — click here…
Organized by our Board Public Policy Chair – Karen Anderson
advocacy@aauw-wa.org
2018 Events
August 2018 Summer Leadership Meeting – Ellensburg
Our summer meeting had a wide-ranging choice of workshops and presentations. All events were at the Red Lion Hotel in Ellensburg.
- Thursday 4 pm and Friday, Aug. 23-24, optional strategic planning sessions.
- Saturday, Aug. 25, 8 am, annual Leadership Conference – presentations and workshops. Agenda includes in-depth consideration of public policy, mission-based outreach and collaboration, college university relations, and leadership qualities.
— Click here for details of panel discussion of 3 members representing a large branch, a medium-sized branch and a small branch — Gig Harbor, Port Townsend and Palouse-Garfield…
— Click here for program agenda to read/download/print…
State Convention April 2018 – Spokane
3-day program details and recordings of presentations – click here….
Photos from Lobby Day 2018 Jan. 29 in Olympia
- Representative Tana Senn
- AAUW WA Lobbyist Pam Crone
- Lobby Day 2018 great attendance
- AAUW WA President Judy Prince
- Attorney General Bob Ferguson
- Attorney General Bob Ferguson
Contact Karen Anderson, Public Policy Chair
Info: advocacy@aauw-wa.org
We lobbied in Olympia to advance AAUW’s legislative goals. The focus was Equal Pay (again!) and the Student Loan Bill of Rights. Our speakers were Washington Attorney General Rob Ferguson, a strong advocate for student loan legislation; Representative Tana Senn, a sponsor of our equal pay bill; and Pam Crone, our lobbyist.
2017 Events
Summer Leadership Conference 2017
Holmes Center in Ellensburg on Saturday, August 19
National AAUW Convention 2017
Washington State had 27 attendees
2016 Events
AAUW-WA Convention 2016
April 22-24
Suquamish Clearwater Casino Resort, Suquamish, WA
April 22 Board Meeting, Training, Reception/Dinner, and Opening Evening
April 23 Convention, Annual Meeting and Elections, and Leadership Development
April 24 Convention over by noon
2015 Events
August 2015 — The Women of AAUW WA gathered in Ellensburg for work and play.
45 great women from all over the state met, shared ideas, learned new skills and left renewed. If you didn’t attend this meeting in August, 2015, you missed a great event. We will be posting more on this website.
San Diego, California, 2015 National Convention
Click for Review of the 2015 National Conference – By attendees