Women’s Institute for Leadership and Learning
THE WOMEN
Planners of the 2010 Seneca Falls Dialogues have formalized an invitation, and mailed it to the White House.
“We decided to ask, and hope that she will accept our modest request,” says Women’s Institute for Leadership and Learning Secretary and Treasurer Adriene Emmo, a planner of the 2010 Dialogues. “We can only hope that her busy schedule will allow her to attend,” Emmo continued.
The invitation, mailed in January, has not yet received a response, but according to Emmo, the committee remains hopeful.
“The remarks given by President Obama in 2008, in the written response he provided to our inquiry about CEDAW and the Equal Rights Amendment, were inspiring and gave us cause for hope and anticipation of great things to come. It’s time to address these issues once again. While health care and job creation are obvious priorities for his administration, we’re looking forward to learning more about his efforts to maintain a focus on efforts to advance women’s rights. We understand his current priority issues are, in fact, advancing women’s causes. Perhaps the First Lady can tell us what else the President has in store for us,” Emmo concluded.
The planning committee has pledged to release information concerning the First Lady’s response as soon as it is received.
Other invitees of the 2010 Dialogues include Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, champion
of women’s rights and keynote speaker in 2008; Carolyn Hannan, Director of the United
Nations Conference on the Advancement of Women; Judith Pipher, National Women’s Hall
of Fame Inductee and world renowned astrophysicist; Colleen Jenkins, speaker, scholar
and great-
