Mary Margaret Olohan Gives Our Leadership Retreat Attendees an Exclusive Look at Her New Book
During the 2024 NeW Leadership Retreat in Boston, Massachusetts, attendees had the opportunity to hear from Mary Margaret Olohan, Author and Senior Reporter at The Daily Signal. Olohan briefly shared her experience as a culture reporter and discussed how it convinced her to write her new book, Detrans: True Stories of Escaping the Gender Ideology […]
NeW Alumni Share Advice to Students About Standing Strong as a Conservative Woman in the Workplace at the NeW Leadership Retreat
Saturday afternoon at the 2024 NeW Leadership Retreat in Boston, Massachusetts, students listened to a panel of NeW alumni share advice on standing firm as a conservative woman in the workplace. The panel was moderated by Kirsten Golinski, NeW’s Development Manager. NeW alumni Julia Canzano (Boston College ‘21) and Emma Foley (Boston College ‘22) recently […]
NeW Celebrates 20 Years at Anniversary Gala in Washington, DC
The Network of enlightened Women (NeW) hosted its 20th Anniversary Gala earlier this month, celebrating two decades of the organization’s efforts to empower women to advocate for conservatism on college campuses. Students, alumni, supporters, and staff traveled from locations across the country on Tuesday, September 10, to celebrate this milestone at the Capitol Hill […]
NeW Hosts the 2024 Leadership Retreat in Boston, Massachusetts
NeW hosted the 2024 Leadership Retreat in Boston, Massachusetts, on August 2-4. More than 90 NeW chapter leaders from across the country gathered for three days of training on how to better articulate conservative principles on campus and plan for the semester. With your support, we provided scholarship funding to all attendees. We had 94 […]
Patti’s Pearls of Wisdom – Navigating Rejection with Grace and Gumption
Navigating the tumultuous waters of the job search as a young professional woman can be an exhilarating and, at times, deeply frustrating experience. The excitement of opportunity often tangles with the disappointment of rejection that can cause even the most confident woman to doubt herself. But let’s be clear, the job hunt takes grit. It’s […]
Leadership Lessons: Advice from a Female Founder
On Tuesday, November 5, women from across DC gathered to hear from one of the nation’s premier conservative donor development experts, Ann Fitzgerald. Before starting her successful nonprofit consulting firm, Fitzgerald was the Director of Development at the Heritage Foundation where she helped lead an effort to increase contributions by 20%. Fitzgerald began her speech […]
Carleton College Blog: My Favorite Convo
This blog post originally appeared on Carleton College’s Admissions Website on April 9, 2019. The piece is written by Lucas Demetriades regarding the recent speech given by Karin Lips, President of NeW, as the weekly convocation speaker at Carleton College. My Favorite Convo I’ve written about Carleton’s convos before, but for those who don’t know, they’re basically weekly […]
National Conference Recap: Human Trafficking and What You Can Do to Fight Back
Dawn Hawkins: Let’s Talk Sex Trafficking: The Hidden Problem in America and What You Can Do To Fight Back The National Conference hit a somber mood when Dawn Hawkins, Senior Vice President and Executive Director of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), discussed the nature of human trafficking in the United States. She made the […]
National Conference Recap: Understanding Women’s Rights Around the World
Lisa Daftari on Women’s Rights Around the World For many Americans, basic women’s rights are taken for granted and are not fully appreciated when compared to the human rights violations around the world. At this year’s National Conference, Lisa Daftari, TV and Radio Host/Commentator, combatted this ignorance to demonstrate how women’s rights are being violated […]
Caitlin Flanagan on Today’s Colleges and the Indoctrination of their Students
Caitlin Flanagan was, without a doubt, one of my favorite speakers at the NeW National Conference. Caitlin Flanagan is a contributing editor to the Atlantic and a former staff writer for The New Yorker. In addition, she is also the author of Girl Land, a best-selling book about what girls have lost and gained in […]
