October 20th – 21

st 1st AAUW-NJ Retreat at Resorts AC

Meet the Retreat Team (L –R) AAUW National: Deepti

Gudipati, AAUW-NJ Board: Barbara Williamson, Carol Cohen,

& Pres. Sally Goodson

Sunday Oct 20th - We listened to some great presenters –

Diversity Author & AAUW-NJ Atlantic County Branch – Turiya

S.A. Raheem; NY District AAUW – Joan Monk ; NJ State

Prosecutors Office on Human Trafficking – Danielle Buckley

Followed by Cocktails and Convos

Joan Monk discussed My Sister’s Keeper, AAUW-NYS’ project that grew out of reading Half the Sky. Joan encourages each of us individually and as a branch to get informed, inspired, and involved. Her best quip of the day — “Comfort the troubled and trouble the comfortable.”

Turiya S.A. Raheem Author AAUW-NJ Atlantic County Branch & STAR member has written about her family and the black community’s history in Atlantic City. It was story that HAD to be told. She recounts her experience Growing Up in the Other Atlantic City: Wash’s and the Northside. She was tapped by the creators of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire folks for her historical knowledge

President Sally Goodson Kicked – Off are Facilitator Lead

Brainstorming Sessions Monday with groups of

integrated branch teams

We got to network with each on some wonderful ideas to

increase membership, recharge & bring AAUW-NJ forward to

our own communities on the great stuff AAUW offers

AAUW Assistant Facilitator Pam Yuen (L) and Lead Facilitator Deepti Gudipati (R)

Our AAUW New Jersey Program Experts gave a 15 Min Speed Date Intro to each

table on Pay Equity, $tart$mart, C/U Partnerships, teentech, &

NJ Action Against Human Trafficking

Sally Goodson, Virginia Lyttle, Adrienne Lesser, Barbara Williamson &

Jean Wadsworth

Note: You really do need a strong voice attached to good feet. Note: You really do need a strong voice attached to good feet.

What we did for NJ Equal Pay – Read page 14 of the Summer G.S. Newsletter

What we did for NJ Human Trafficking – Read Page 16 of the Summer G.S. Newsletter

What we did for teentech 13 – Read page 13 of Summer G.S. Newsletter

What we did for $mart $tart - Read page 19 of the Summer G.S. Newsletter

What we did with our C/U Partners - Read page 11 of the Summer G.S. Newsletter

The Atlantic County Branch showed us how you can create

solidarity in diversity support groups in your own

community. A program that listens and brings together the

voices of minority groups that are often unheard.

S.T.A.R. – Sisters Together Against Racism

Read about the STAR Program on page 18 of G.S. Summer Newsletter

We took brief moment in between to take a bow. Mary

Switzer entered AAUW New Jersey’s 12 Year old Hallmark

STEM Program for H.S. Girls - teentech™ to National. It

is now Recognized as an AAUW –

Program in a Box Program

Branches – tell your High Schools to attend Download the Save the Date Flyer for teentech 2014 – Georgian Court College – Lakewood NJ on May 29th

Melissa Guardaro - AAUW United Nations

Representative gave us the latest briefing.

Read What Melissa and AAUW are doing at the UN

NJ State Prosecutors Office on Human Trafficking –

Danielle Buckley Gave the New Jersey’s Statistics

The Freehold Branch were 10 members strong for AAUW

New Jersey

AAUW-NJ Sussex County Branch felt real charged from the

Retreat and are looking forward to doing AAUW New Jersey

Mission Projects in their own branch community.

Somerset Hills and the Sussex County Branch are

Forever Girls that know how to have FUN!