Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend!

A podcast for long distance festies everywhere.

I'm I'm Me Not Too So.

And I'm Anne Friedman.

We are live today from Washington DC where we are attending the United State of Women's Summit.

Yeah, we spent a long and interesting day at the summit thanks to the generosity of the Harnish

Foundation. Yeah, thanks to the Harnish Foundation for getting us here. It was a full

it was a very packed and exciting day.

So we're going to our agenda. We'll discuss the summit that we are attending and we'll highlight

some key conversations with some pretty rad people like.

Well, Valerie Jarrett, who is a senior advisor to President Barack Obama in a long-term BFF

of the Presidents. She is also chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls.

We're also going to talk to Renee Bracey Sherman, who is an advocate for de-stigmatizing abortion

and who was at the summit in just like a top babe.

And also a top babe. And also at the summit in a really earth-shattering piece of clothing.

And also Kim Gandhi, who is the President and CEO of the National Network to End Domestic

Violence. And some other awesome advocates from that organization.

Okay. So what is the what was the summit all about? Man, the summit was a lot.

You know, I guess at its core it's this summit that was convened by the White House and specifically

the office that Valerie Jarrett had, which is the White House Council on Women and Girls.

I guess like maybe she explains it like to us in a way that just like made more sense to me as part

of the White House legacy like building in this space, but also a way to convene people from both

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