The Time for Justice is NOW

Conference Agenda
8:30-9:00 Registration and Credentialing

9:00 – 9:25 am Opening Plenary

Welcome, Site Logistics, Committee Reports, Coalition Work,
Announcements, Poem

9:25-9:35 Ice Breaker Ana Tampanna

9:40-10:40 Workshops
● Climate Change Hurts Women
● Using Google Docs to Organize
● Tell Me About NOW! (NOW History and how NOW works)

10:40-10:50 Break, Silent Auction Time

10:50-11:00 Tribute to Jan Allen - Still I Rise, by Maya Angelou – Geraldine

Richards and NOW members

11:00-12:00 Threats to Reproductive Access

Abortion Bans, Millions for CPCs in State Budget – Audrey Muck
Title X – PP and then Obria – Taylor Pickney
Barriers to access in NC – Brooke Adams

12:00 – 12:20 pm Break, Silent Auction, Get Lunch

12:20 – 1:20 pm Lunch/Keynote Speaker: Rep. Deb Butler

Topic: “I Will Not Yield”

1:20 – 1:40 pm Announcements and Endorsed Representative greetings,

Introductions by Cindy Thomson

1:40 – 1:50 pm Break, Last call Silent Auction – Nancy Cook

1:50 – 2:30 pm ERA Updates and VAWA Obstruction – Joanna Wade and
Monika or Rona?

2:30 – 2:45 pm Election Block if needed - Candidate speeches and election ​–

Roberta Waddle

2:45 – 3:45 pm Workshops

● Immigration Women: Stories of Courage (Panel)
● Lobbying 101
● Gender Equity and Equality in the Workplace (Panel)

3:45 – 4:00 pm Resolutions and Closing Plenary