Sep 27, 20202 minGuest Post: Today's Entry from Cowgirl Run Fund!Our colleagues over at the Cowgirl Run Fund posted a round-up of recent print media coverage all sparked by the effort to elect more wome...
Sep 16, 20202 min#RepresentationMattersSo. This happened: Natrona County GOP member censured by state party for supporting women's PAC Who knew working to elect more women woul...
Sep 15, 20206 minSenator’s comments expose problem of female underrepresentationWWAN founder, Jen Simon, partnered with attorney & Liberty Group lobbyist Cassie Craven to pen a commentary on Sen. Anderson's comments a...
Sep 13, 20205 minEnd of Summer Quarantine KitHow is it already September? A hot second and a hundred years ago it was February. Time has stretched out, slowed down, sped up, and loop...
Sep 2, 20202 minSome questions are in order about misogynyPart I So, this happened. It was the zoom meeting of Joint Minerals Committee last Thursday (August 27, 2020). Skip ahead to the 3:21:00 ...
Sep 2, 20201 minComplaint about Comments from Senator AndersonAugust 28, 2020 Dear Mr. Obrecht: At Minerals Committee yesterday afternoon, Jennifer Wilmetti, the Chair of the Wyoming Council for Wom...
Aug 13, 20204 minPrimary Election + Legislative CommitteesGame on, party (policy?) people, game on. Starting next week, it will be fast and furious in the world of Wyoming State Politics. Let's t...
Jul 28, 20204 minSummer social (distancing): A quarantine kit for late JulyWelp. We skipped June. Call it an act of optimism. But. Now. [sigh] We're pretty well heading back to lockdown so, to get you ready, here...
Jul 25, 20202 minRepresentWomenReader, allow us to introduce you to RepresentWomen, the leading group in highlighting and dismantling systemic and structural obstacles ...
Jul 20, 20201 minA more representative governmentWyoming Women's Action Network, statewide paper, Sunday cover, above the fold! Read it here. And support local journalism, subscribe to y...
Jul 17, 20201 minWhen Women Vote!Last night, Jen put on her Gender Lens Project/Equality State Policy Center Senior Policy Advisor hat and moderated a pretty amazing pane...
Jul 10, 20202 minIf you do one thing next week, this is that thing.Thursday! July 16th! 5pm! At Equality State Policy Center! (Actually, on the zoom, in your house, with your cocktail.) When Women Vote: W...
Jul 6, 20203 minWomen, Childcare & Post-Pandemic Economic RecoveryWe're not telling you anything you don't already know—and neither is the Washington Post—but without childcare, this economy is not comin...
Jul 4, 20202 minFreedoms.This Independence Day, we have a thing or two to say about freedom. We have something to say about the rampant proliferation of the word ...
Jul 3, 20202 minMedicaid Expansion. We'll just keep working until we get it done.We talk a lot about Medicaid Expansion. Jen, in particular, talks a lot about Medicaid Expansion. But we are not the only ones. The Equal...
Jul 2, 20201 minOn food, food insecurity, and the need for the food tax exemption.Jen's Equity State column in this week's JH News&Guide tackled all things food. The heartbreak of a 9-year-old celebrating their birthday...
Jun 30, 20202 minWyoming Needs Leaders. Wyoming Needs You.Starting this month, leaders across Wyoming can get essential leadership development training from state and national experts every Monda...
Jun 10, 20201 minCowgirl Run Fund!Exciting news! Women across Wyoming just launched the Cowgirl Run Fund! Here are the Wyoming Women's Action Network, we're dedicated to t...
Jun 7, 20204 minSocial justice quarantine kit, vol 2.It is still a pandemic. We do still need to be inside when we can, social distancing at all times, and wearing masks when we're out and a...
Jun 5, 20203 minEquity State: System of oppression simply can’t continueWe have no choice but to reimagine everything. The world as it is cannot continue. In this moment, the evergreen quote from W.B. Yeats’ “...
