This week, we are featuring member city Rochester, MN’s work to make community co-design a central approach to developing city spaces and programs. Rochester is bringing co-design into city procedures, beginning with a Discovery Walk …
Women Mayors Network
Posts related to the Women Mayors Network.
Event: Women Mayors Network Session on Navigating the Isms
This mayors-only interactive session created exclusively for the Women Mayors Network offers space for releasing and healing from the daily challenges of experiencing racism, heterosexism, and sexism and strategies for building shared accountability for disrupting these isms.
Event: A Conversation with Gina Ortiz Jones, Under Secretary of the U.S. Air Force
Wednesday, Sept. 28th 1 ET/12 CT/11 MT/10 PT Many U.S. cities are home to military installations, and virtually all cities are home to military veterans and their families. In this session, we’ll be joined by …
Why Local Officials Are Facing Growing Harassment and Threats
A report released in May by the Women Mayors Network and Equity Agenda, a nonprofit focused on local government, found increased levels of psychological violence and threats leveled against mayors across the country, particularly women and women …
Join us: Abortion Access Briefing exclusively for mayors
Wednesday, July 13th 12 ET/11 CT/10 MT/9 PT Abortion Access Briefing, exclusively for city leaders and their trusted staff Join us for an exclusive briefing and discussion for and amongst mayors, focused on city responses …
An Assault on Local Democracy
New findings show that, although political violence* against mayors is common, women mayors and mayors of color face more frequent and acute incidents of political violence.
Join us: May is for Mayor Safety
As a network of mayors, we hear firsthand of the political violence that local leaders face. In May, we are releasing new findings that show the rise in threats and harassment to US mayors and …
Gender & Domestic Policy: A Briefing with the White House
In June, the Women Mayors Network hosted a briefing with White House leaders on gender and domestic policies. Recognizing the key role mayors play in advancing policy priorities locally, the White House Office of Intergovernmental …
Event: Refining your Governance & Partnership Strategy
Illuminating Financial Trends: A Training for Mayors Wednesday, July 21 9am PST/10am MST/11am CST/12pm EST This training is specifically framed and created for mayors, but we also welcome finance directors and mayors’ chiefs of staff. …
Policing, COVID & Sexism: How women mayors tackled 2020
In January, we celebrated one year since the launch of the Women Mayors Network. In close partnership with Equity Agenda, this project advances our work to build and sustain peer networks and to provide new …