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Volume 01, Number 001

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

An edition of the

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INTERVIEWS

PROJECTS

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INTERVIEW WITH
MAYOR NAN
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Interview
WITH MAYOR
NAN WHALEY
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By Lean In Dayton
DAYTON Mayor Whaley feels that
it is great time to lead the city. For one,
the first presidential debate will be held
at Wright State University on
September 26th, 2016 and Whaley
plans to work with the prestigious
university on its organization and
planning. The debate will bring people
from across the country to the historic
home-city of the Wright Brothers
which is a big deal for the budding
metropolis; Dayton aims to retain
much of its new skills and talent
through
redevelopment
and
restructuring.
In a Lean In Dayton interview,
Mayor
Whaley
discusses
the
significance of the timing as Mayor
and offers the Lean In Dayton audience
insight on her interpretation of
leadership

Women and Leadership after I

graduated from college. They were a
pro-choice group and supportive of
other women. They really took me
under their arms and taught me a lot.
Even when I made mistakes, they
stuck by me. That's what's key; when
there are people who are older and
more experienced than you and even
when you make a mistake, they'll help
you learn from that mistake because
that's when you learn the most,
frankly, when mistakes are made.
You were the youngest woman ever
chosen for a city commission seat.
What was the experience like and
how did you navigate in an
environment
that
was
predominantly male and older?
Mayor Nan Whaley: I've always been
in politics. The environment has
always been predominantly male. I
don't really know if I navigated it
necessarily, it's just part of what the
job entails.

How did you develop as a leader?

See INTERVIEWS, P2
Mayor Nan Whaley: Lots of people
helped me. There was a group called

The Mayor opens her office for Lean In Dayton

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Human trafficking
By Women For Action

CHICAGO No country is exempt from human

trafficking. Specified by the United Nations, human
trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, transfer,
harboring or receipt of persons by means of threat or
use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction,
of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power, or of a
position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of
payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person
having control over another person, for the purpose of
exploitation." See ISSUES, P3

LEAN IN DAYTON

Mayor Nan Whaley and Julene Allen, Exec Director of Women For Action

About WOMEN FOR

ACTION TIMES

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equality day to a federal holiday
August 26th marks key
moments in history and
reminds us of progress
made to include women.
By Women For Action Team
Womens Equality Day is largely
important to American history. For
one, on August 26, 1920, women
were officially granted the right to
vote in the United States after the
certification of the 19th amendment.
Fifty years later on August 26, 1970,
women activists joined ranks on this
day to remind our legislators that the
buck doesn't stop there.
They organized what has been
called the largest equality protest in

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with
over
100,000
women,
campaigning
for
equality
in
education, employment and access
childcare. On this same day in 1971,
a national bill was passed to designate
August 26th a day of prominenceWomen's Equality Day. This petition
is an effort to further recognize the
importance of this day to not only
make sure that it is enriched in history
lessons but that it deemed important
enough to take precedence as a
federal holiday.
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On November 25th, the International

Day for the Elimination of Violence
against Women, the countdown
began for 16 Days of Activism
against Gender-Based Violence
which leads to December 10th,
Human Rights Day.

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