ITT Special Report: Women in Power
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
As the energy around 2020 grows, conversations about women’s political leadership are taking the lead. In The Thick's NY Women's Foundation fellow Nour Saudi reports from a panel organized by the Metro New York chapter of UN Women on what the future of politics looks like for women of color, and where New York City falls short. We also hear from Democratic Rep. Yvette Clarke and Erin Vilardi, founder of VoteRunLead.
ITT Staff Picks:
- At Capitol Hill, the freshman congresswomen are urging young girls to run for office, via Refinery29.
- The history of the women trailblazers in New York’s state government, from The New York Times.
- This Vox piece makes the case for why 2020 should be the year of women.For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
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| 0:25.0 | Hula, hey welcome to The thick, I'm Julio Riccalo-Barela and today we have a very special episode since Maria is still out writing her book in the Dominican Republic |
| 0:39.5 | Joining me and I'm so excited to introduce her is our very own In The Thick Fellow, |
| 0:46.1 | Noor Southie. Hey, Noor? |
| 0:48.9 | Hey Julio, it's great to be here. |
| 0:51.2 | I'm so excited, The In The Thick Fellow, it's so formal, |
| 0:54.5 | it's just, I love it. |
| 0:55.8 | It's. |
| 0:56.5 | And so basically, Newark, since you are in The Thick Fellow, |
| 1:01.8 | you're going to be filing reports for us. |
| 1:05.0 | You did your first one recently there was a panel organized by the Metro New York |
| 1:11.8 | chapter of UN women about the future of politics for |
| 1:16.3 | women in the city and there were all these politicians speaking all from the |
| 1:20.3 | city all from New York City so tell me it. Tell me about what you saw. |
| 1:23.4 | Yeah it was awesome so I mean last week I went to the event and it was cool there were all |
| 1:28.6 | these like women politicians there and the audience was full of like these corporate business women and |
| 1:34.8 | women political organizers and and just people who wanted to like be involved in |
| 1:39.1 | this conversation about political participation for women all from New York City and |
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