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Appointments Training
(geared toward women)
Want to be more politically involved? California Women Lead, the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Center for Gender Equity, and UCSF Community and Governmental Relations invite you to a workshop to learn how to apply for and get appointed to a board or commission.
DATE: Thursday, February 18, 2010
TIME: 5:30 to 7:30 pm
LOCATION: UCSF School of Nursing, Room N225
(Enter 513 Parnassus Avenue, go up staircase, exit via doors to courtyard, cross to School of Nursing building, see map and additional directions)
REGISTER HERE
Please note: Cookies & refreshments will be provided!
This FREE workshop will guide you through the appointments process by:
- Making you aware of the board and commission openings in your area;
- Helping you assess your strengths through a Personal Inventory worksheet;
- Guiding you through the application process;
- Helping you learn about the State appointments process.
Speakers include:
Fiona Ma, Member of the California State Assembly, 12th District
Rachel Michelin, Executive Director/CEO California Women Lead & Gubernatorial Appointee
Betty Yee, Chairwoman, State Board of Equalization, District 1 & CA Women Lead State Board of Directors Member
John Cruz, Appointments Secretary, Office of the Governor
Sophie Maxwell, Supervisor, San Francisco Board of Supervisors, District 10
Workshop made possible by the generosity of our sponsors: Kaiser Permanente and State Farm Insurance as well as our community partners: San Francisco Women's Political Caucus, Filipina Women's Network, the California Commission on the Status of Women, and EMERGE.
California Women Lead is a statewide, nonpartisan, nonprofit association dedicated to leadership and campaign training, policy discussion and networking opportunities for women who hold - or are interested in holding - elected or appointed office. Our membership is open to anyone who is committed to encouraging women in public office. To find out more about a membership with California Women Lead and to learn more about our programs, please visit www.cawomenlead.org, call 916-551-1920 or email admin@cawomenlead.org. |
The series below is a follow-up to the OpEd Project at UCSF programs hosted in the Summer and Fall of 2009 (click here for details). Enrollment in this series is limited to participants in the original programs.
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You are now part of a 3000-strong community of (mostly) women experts across the nation who have the power to change the world of public debate -- including 60 of you who participated in three day long programs at UCSF this fall. Many of you asked for follow up support, and we are intensely interested in helping you publish op-eds and more generally be known for your thought leadership positions in your field - because we measure our success by your success.
Therefore, we - the OpEd Project and the UCSF Center for Gender Equity - are offering a pilot series of follow up OpEd workshops specifically for the UCSF community, to support you in getting there. Would you like to take the rough draft op-ed you crafted during the seminar (or any op-ed draft), and take it to completion with the guidance of an extremely experienced mentor-editor, over a few weeks? Would you be interested in a follow-up writing workshop with other OpEd Project graduates? And in being able to network with other thought leaders in your area? If so, be a part of our inaugural workshop!
In this four-session writing workshop series, you will put The OpEd Project seminar into practice. Drawing on peer feedback and one-on-one instruction from a mentor-editor, participants will refine their skills and write, polish, and pitch at least one op-ed.You will doshort writing exercises, workshop articles as a group, and discuss the nuts and bolts of writing effective arguments.
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Dates: |
Monday, January 25, 2010
Monday, February 1, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
(no class President's Day February 15, 2010)
Monday, February 22, 2010 |
Register Here
pre-registration required |
Time: |
6:30 – 8:30 PM
There will be an open hour from 5:30 – 6:30 PM
for one-on-one assistance and individual writing time. |
Location: |
UCSF Parnassus
Medical Sciences Building, 513 Parnassus Avenue
Room S-170 for all dates except February 1st
Room S-176 for February 1st session
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Cost: |
$240.00 per person
Please note: This is a subsidized rate for UCSF
participants, and contingent on at least 10 participants. |
About the Instructor:
Laura Mazer is an OpEd Project Adviser and Mentor-Editor. She is a veteran Op-Ed editor, book editor, and publishing consultant. In the 1990s, she was the managing editor of Creators Syndicate, the international agency that represents some of the most widely published opinion writers around the globe, including Molly Ivins, Arianna Huffington, Hillary Clinton, Tony Snow, Robert Novak, Susan Estrich, Benazir Bhutto, and Pat Buchanan. The columns she has edited have appeared in close to every daily newspaper in the country, and many international papers as well. Laura is also a book editor, having worked with publishing houses such as Avalon Publishing Group, Perseus Books Group, Soft Skull Books, Sierra Books, Counterpoint Press, and Random House. Her focus as a book developer is on nonfiction and groundbreaking cultural analysis. In the 1990s, Laura was a senior editor at Brill's Content magazine, a fiercely independent monthly magazine that kept a close eye on media’s cultural and political influence. She has served as the columns editor at the award-winning literary magazine Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined, and as the special sections editor at the Los Angeles Times.
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