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I left my home in Reston at dawn this morning. I went to the city. To an art gallery in DC. For breakfast. Like I’m living someone else’s life for a morning. It’s a special occasion.
I hadn’t been feeling up for a celebration this year. It’s not even 9 months since Dobbs and Jackson, and I’m still salty. This year’s IWD theme doesn’t help either. It’s not the theme itself. It’s the hug, y’all. I wanna be seen as a warrior. Revered. Not coddled like daddy’s little girl.
But I did it. I did all that Metro riding and I crossed the river. To attend an International Women’s Day event with my girl Julie. From the University of lululemon days, she still keeps me plugged into a perfectly curated selection of what’s happening in, around and about town. 🫶🏼
A couple days before, she’d figured out how to get me out of my funk and into my pink velour. “Ambassador Haber will be there, and we are going in person!”
Emily Haber is Germany’s Ambassador to the US.
In a way only an extremely capable, impeccably well trained, experienced diplomat of her caliber can do – and with that German accent I love so much to bout, she inspired me to put some of my positivity to action.
- We are only at the beginning of the widening of a prism that has traditionally left women and others underrepresented communities out. Go first.
- There is general global agreement on reaching similar equity goals, yet it’s every country’s responsibility to take action and make insights towards progress available to the others. Corporations play a major role in this ecosystem. Especially in the US, where social benefits mostly come from employers. Stay on purpose.
- Gender budgeting. Learn more.
P.S. I’m keeping an eye across the Atlantic for input and leadership to riddle me this: what will become the actual consequences, or remedies for not meeting equality requirements?
Say something, go ahead!