I Am Generation Equality – International Women’s Day

I watched Hulu’s first two episodes of “Hillary” and wept.  I wept for someone who as a young woman in undergraduate school, was at the top of her class, someone who was President of her Student Government Council and who spoke during her commencement supported by dozens of other young possibilitarians at Wellesley College, who from an early age wanted to make a difference in the lives of young women and children.  I watched as she, a self-made intelligent woman entering Yale law school with 26 other young women sharing points of view and perspectives of what the world could be, like me and many other women, later lost her voice.  Today, in honor of International Women’s Day, my message isn’t about Democrats or Republicans.  It is not about whether you are brown or white.  It isn’t about being a left or right brain thinker, or whether you are gay or straight, Somalian or Italian.  It is about Each for Equal – about finding our true North.  It is about standing on the shoulders of so many women who came before us.  Where are today’s history makers – the next Marian Edelman Wright, or Margaret Chase Smith?  Do we have a Barbara Mulkulski, or the next Ayaan Hirsi Ali among us?  Will there be another Maria Navratilova, Serena Williams, Helen Gurley Brown, or the best homemaker and mother among us?  Who will blaze the trail for our daughters, our little girls–our sons?  Find your voice.  Interrupt! Disrupt.  What is the message you will share to uplift the next generation?  Interrupt! Finding Your Voice Amid Adversity.