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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Women's
Health Network Presents:Â The History of Women in Politics in Oregon</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Women's
Health Network's mission is to form a coalition open to all who share the goal
to achieve optimum health and healing for women in Oregon through advocacy,
education and networking.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In pursuit of
this mission, the women’s health network provides a forum to discuss issues
related to women’s health, presents educational sessions and promotes
networking and mutual support among members.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This year's
speaker series is titled, "<b>Politics and Women's Health: Is it Personal</b>?".Â
Presentations are held quarterly, beginning on February 10th, at McMenamin's
Kennedy School. February's presentation will focus on the History of
Women in Politics in Oregon. The event is free and open to the public.
Doors open at 8:00 am. The presentation begins at 8:35 and the event ends
at 11:30 am. A light continental breakfast will be available. For more
information email <a href="mailto:valerie.a.stratton@state.or.us" target="_blank">valerie.a.stratton@state.or.us</a>.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sunny Petit
will present:Â "Women making History:Â Oregon Politics and
Policy". Sunny is the Associate Director for the Center for Women,
Politics, and Policy which promotes the education and empowerment of women and
girls through civic leadership programs and research. She is also 1 of 3 Oregon
delegates to Vision 2020 Equality in Sight, a national initiative through
Drexel University, to increase equality for women nationally by 2020, and
chairs the Oregon Commission for Women. Prior to joining the Center, she was
Regional Director for a counter-human trafficking organization in South Asia
and ran programs in India, Bangladesh, and Nepal. She is a recipient of the
Tokyo Foundation's International Trade and Development Fellowship for research
on women's political development in Turkey. She lives in North Portland with
her husband Peter, and children, Hendrik and Daphne.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Marge Easley
will present "The League's Role in Oregon Politics". Marge has
been a member of the League of Women Voters for 20 years and last May completed
a four year term as state president. She has been a member of the
League’s state action team for many years, and she wants to share with you what
the League is and does and what role it has played in Oregon’s political
process over the last 20 years. </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Marge grew up
in Pennsylvania, but has lived in Rhode Island, Delaware, Switzerland, and
South Carolina before moving with her husband and daughter to Wilsonville
sixteen years ago. She’s a retired teacher and first joined the League in South
Carolina when her daughter, now a sophomore in college, was just a
toddler. She joined because she wanted to make a difference in a small
town where the racial inequities and lack of opportunities for black youths
deeply troubled her. After moving to Oregon, she has followed a wide
range of issues for the League, spends a lot of time at the Capitol when the
Legislature is in session (the short February session is now underway), and is
currently helping to write a history of the League of Women Voters of Oregon,
in honor of the 100<sup>th</sup> anniversary of women’s suffrage in Oregon,
which is being celebrated this year.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For further
information, see the attached flyer or visit our website at:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://public.health.oregon.gov/HealthyPeopleFamilies/Women/Pages/whn.aspx" target="_blank">http://public.health.oregon.gov/HealthyPeopleFamilies/Women/Pages/whn.aspx</a>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Rachel Linz, MPH</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Research Analyst - Reproductive
Health</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Office of Family Health - Public
Health Division</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Oregon Health Authority</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">800 NE Oregon St., Suite 370</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Portland, OR 97232</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">tel. <a href="tel:%28971%29%20673-0358" value="+19716730358" target="_blank">(971) 673-0358</a></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">fax. <a href="tel:%28971%29%20673-0278" value="+19716730278" target="_blank">(971) 673-0278</a></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><a href="mailto:rachel.s.linz@state.or.us" target="_blank">rachel.s.linz@state.or.us</a></span></div>
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