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Stand Up! with Pete Dominick

Pete Dominick

Politics, News

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Lala is a Co-Founder and the Executive Director of Sister District, which builds progressive power in state legislatures. She is thrilled and humbled to be the first woman of color to take the helm of the organization. In her previous role as the Director of Engagement & Partnerships, she successfully led the expansion of the organization's volunteer infrastructure, which now has 60,000+ members and over 170 groups in 32 states. Since its founding in 2016, Sister District has raised over $4.25m in small dollar donations directly to candidates and reached out to over 3.5m voters through doors, calls, texts, and postcards on behalf of over 130 state legislative races in key swing districts. Lala also led the development of strategic partnerships with local and national organizations such as the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, EMILY’s List, Human Rights Campaign, Vote Save America, and more. Prior to Sister District, Lala clerked for federal judges in the Northern District of California and the District of Massachusetts. She was also an attorney at Morrison & Foerster LLP in San Francisco and Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell LLP in Denver where she practiced environmental and energy law. Lala graduated from U.C. Berkeley, School of Law and Barnard College of Columbia University. Lala serves on the Boards of the AAPI Victory Alliance and Together SF, and the Advisory Boards of Asian American Women’s Political Initiative and Project Camp. She is a New Leaders Council alum.

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0:00.0	And we are off. It's the Friday show. I've got the executive director of a great
0:06.7	organization called Sister District, which works hard to get progressives
0:10.9	elected to the state level.
0:13.0	Lala Wu is joining me today.
0:15.6	She is smart and passionate and awesome.
0:18.0	And I think you will love our conversation that begins at 13 minutes in.
0:23.0	But I've got your headlines and I want to say hello and thank you very much for joining me at
0:27.5	last night's hangout where I hosted it and this from my childhood bedroom in upstate New York just outside Syracuse in the country, in the sticks surrounded by forest woods as we called it, cornfields and snow.
0:42.8	Feeling blessed going skiing today with three generations,
0:46.1	my dad, me and my daughters altogether.
0:49.7	It's going to be great.
0:50.9	Thank you very much for your support. I couldn't do any of it without you, but
0:55.3	work a lot Tuesday, work a lot Thursday. Play hard, ski with my daughters and my family
1:01.1	on Friday and Wednesday, and that's what this week has been looking like but
1:05.2	we've got it all done great interview with Steve Cole coming your way next week you've
1:09.8	got to get his new book the Achilles trap all about saddama saying it's so so good to run up to the war and I'm really proud of the interview I did with him and looking forward to sharing that with you next week but let's get to those headlines shall we that? That's why you're here. You want the news, you want some clips, and you want my interview with the very smart la-la-woo, and I appreciate that you want it all. I'll give it to you. I'll give you all of it right now. Okay sorry about that. Let's start with the
1:34.4	fact that last night NASA landed on the moon. Not people but a robot. A lunar
1:40.2	landing mission took place last night successfully.
1:43.7	It's pretty cool.
1:44.8	You don't have to be a space nerd to appreciate this.
1:47.8	For the first time since the last Apollo missions
1:50.1	in 1972, an American spacecraft reached the surface of the moon last night a significant step
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