Running & Winning

Thursday, April 18, 2024
8:30am-2:00pm
Manhattanville College, Reid Castle

LWVW is hosting its anual, unique one-day workshop to bring together female-identifying high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors from high schools across Westchester County for an active and interactive political experience. The goal is to support our young participants’ aspirations to serve in public office, develop their leadership potential, and, at the same time, help our government institutions increase gender parity. The program offers opportunities to learn from elected officials' experiences and practical application. Attendees may also register or pre-register to vote on site.

At last year's event:

• Elected officials provided a brief recap as to how they became involved in politics.
• Small teams of students interviewed elected officials in greater depth regarding the seeking and holding of public office.
• Student teams designed a slogan, and wrote and delivered meaningful campaign speeches on an issue selected from a curated list. 

For more information on the program, contact lwvwrunandwin [at] gmail.com.

LWVW appreciates Westchester Community Foundation's continued support and generous grant that helps defray the costs of hosting this important event. LWVW seeks additional sponsors so that even more students will have the opportunity to attend. View the Running & Winning Sponsorship Fact Sheet for more information on how to become a sponsor or contact westchesterlwv [at] gmail.com. 

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Students Inside Albany

Sunday, May 19, 2024 through Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Albany

LWVNYS hosts this annual, intensive, four-day conference, designed to immerse high school students in the process by which public policy is proposed, enacted, and changed in New York State, and to educate them as to how they can influence and affect this process. Albany insiders discuss the operations of New York State government, including how policy is shaped, students develop knowledge of the disparate forces that influence policy development. Students are afforded the opportunity to observe Assembly and Senate sessions and to shadow both their Assembly members and Senators.

LWVW has received approval to send one student to the program and will be seeking candidates from high schools within areas of Westchester County not currently represented by a local league.