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Mujeres Lead: Women's History Month Part 2 (minicast)

Tamarindo

Tamarindo | Sonoro

Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, News, Latinx, News Commentary, Wellbeing, Mental Health, Society & Culture

4.5749 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This is part two of our Women's History Month series. Brenda connects with Nora Vargas, Vice President of Community & Government relations for Planned Parenthood of the Pacific South West. She is a Governor Brown Appointee to California's State Teacher's Retirement Program. Ms. Vargas was appointed and later elected to the Southwestern Community College District Governing Board in the San Diego area. Ms. Vargas tells us how her experience growing up in the San Diego-Tijuana border area, raised by two feminist parents, has shaped her leadership. She has a wealth of experience as a political consultant and her passion for politics is fueled by a drive to serve her community. We hope you enjoy this minicast interview with this badass leader. Please write and review #tamarindopodcast and subscribe!

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Okay, Tamarindos, this is my second interview, part two of featuring amazing

0:36.2

Mujeres for Women's History Month. I'm really excited

0:39.1

that I have Nora Vargas joining me right now. She's the vice president of community and

0:45.1

government relations at Plant Parenthood for the Pacific Southwest. And also, she's a governor

0:50.3

brown appointee on the California State Teachers Retirement System.

0:58.5

So thank you, Nora, for spending some time to join with us today at that Marinda podcast. How are you doing?

1:00.6

I'm doing really, really well, and I'm so excited to be joining you today, and I'm looking

1:06.1

forward to our conversation.

1:07.6

Great, great. I know you're in San Diego, and we appreciate you taking the time for the call. So I wanted to ask you, how has your experience, this is Women's History Month,

1:16.6

and your experience as a woman and as a Latina, how has that shaped your personal accomplishments?

1:23.1

So I guess I would respond to it a little bit bigger, rather than women's months,

1:29.1

and that I'm the oldest before in my family, and I grew up in Pijuana.

1:34.7

But I grew up with parents who were really, really always emphasizing how important it was

1:42.4

for us to go to school and travel and to the

1:45.1

world and trying to make an impact. And so I think my three sisters, my two sisters and I

1:50.8

and my brother, I think we're very fortunate to have feminist parents. And as Latinas, I think

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