Grace Goes to NEA!

First day at NEA was beautiful!! All friendly, kind, welcoming womyn at my office! :D I read up on the organization, got an NEA email, a temporary badge, had my bagged lunch in the atrium/cafeteria area, and talked to my rad Internship Coordinator about the org and education in the US and about how the first Female President of NEA (established in 1857) served her term in 1911-- before womyn could even vote in this country!!!! :D Amazing...NEA's vision is to "provide quality public educaiton to EVERY student"...and that is sadly progressive...!

Then I went to a networking event for Berkeley students and Alumni at the Office of Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, South Capitol Hill entrance.. :D Took pictures on her balcony, roamed illegally around the Capitol, took a million pictures with my fun and friendly UCB UCDC cohort! :) Picture uploads to come... (PS. there are only 2 statues of womyn in the Capitol building as I have seen so far- and one of them has left a marble slab to be engraved for the First Female President...its been waiting there nearly 100 years...hope it doesn't have to wait too much longer...

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