emBOLDenHER: Advocacy Basics:  Ready to Research?

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Join us (in person or online) for our second emBOLDenHER workshop!

Online or ASB, Room 313

Now that you&#x27;ve planned your message, what background research do you need to be persuasive and knowledgeable? How do you integrate this information when you deliver your message? This workshop will begin with a 45 minute talk on ways to use your research to prepare to advocate to policymakers. We will then transition to breakout rooms, hosted by faculty and researchers. Here, you can learn more about the data, research, and researchers in topics interesting to you. Breakout rooms will be available in person and virtual.Tanya Lavelle will be leading the first half of this workshop, discussing techniques to know when and how to speak to legislators and policymakers to have the best outcomes. Immediately following, we will offer breakout rooms based on areas of policy likely to be of interest to Texas women: voting rights, reproductive rights, healthcare access, and more. Tanya is a native Texan. She graduated with a BA in Political Science from the George Washington University in Washington, DC, and spent two years working for multiple women&#x27;s rights organizations before returning home to attend the LBJ School of Public Affairs. She has spent her career in the nonprofit space advocating on behalf of marginalized populations, including people with disabilities and low-income Texans. Tanya joined the staff of Disability Rights Texas in October 2020, and is currently the Policy Specialist for the Housing, Transportation and Disaster Team working to protect the housing rights of low income Texans with disabilities. In her spare time Tanya enjoys baking for local nonprofits and attempting to keep up with her two little boys. Breakout Hosts and TopicsEmarely Rosa-Dávila, Social Work (Topic: Mental Health) Dr. Rosa-Dávila is an Assistant Professor of Social Work and its undergraduate program director for the College of Arts and Sciences at Texas Woman’s University. She also holds appointments as Affiliate Faculty of Psychology and in the Woodcock Institute at Texas Woman’s University. She has over 20 years of experience as a practitioner in mental health, specializing in children and adolescents and 12 in higher education. Her research focuses on mental health and culturally competent practices in the Hispanic-Latinx community living in the United States. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Mental Health and Social Behaviour, Journal of Social Work in the Global Community, Voces del Trabajo Social, and Ámbito de Encuentros. In addition, Dr. Rosa-Dávila is an Executive Leadership Academy fellow (Class 2021) from UC-Berkeley and a New Leadership Academy fellow (Class 2017) from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Fuqin Liu, Nursing (Topic: Reproductive Health) Dr. Liu is an Associate Professor for the Texas Woman&#x27;s University College of Nursing. Her research areas include maternal and child health, reproductive health, partner violence and community health with publications in the International Journal of Woman&#x27;s Health an Reproductive Sciences, Violence Against Women: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal, and the Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing. She also has contributed as a collaborator on providing evidence for practice and policy for the Houston Endowment Foundation as well as served as the principal investigator studying the media in China studying public responses as a result of the one-child to two-child policy change and the effects on preconception care.Alana Taylor, Chemistry (Topic: Environmental and Sustainability Policy) Ms. Taylor is currently faculty in the School of Sciences at Texas Woman&#x27;s University. She passionate about teaching science courses for non-majors to promote civic responsibility. She is experienced as a Public Outreach Manager, a Parks and Recreation board member, and in government administration, education, and environmental services. She serves as the faculty advisor for the TWU Zero Impact Team and works to promote sustainability efforts. Paul D. C. Bones, Sociology (Topic: Disability Rights) Dr. Bones is an Associate Professor at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, TX. His primary research areas are disabilities, ecological predictors of crime, and hate crimes. His publications have appeared in The Journal of Quantitative Criminology, The Social Science Journal, The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Sociological Spectrum, and The Journal of Transformative Learning. He has also published chapters in Hate Crimes (Carolina Academic Press) and A Legacy of Gloria E. Anzaldúa: &quot;May We Do Work that Matters” (Texas A&amp;M Press). He is co-editor of Redefining Disability (Brill).Lori Aaron-Brija, Nursing (Topic: LGBTQ policy and Health Access) Dr. Aaron-Brija is an assistant clinical professor in the College of Nursing at Texas Woman&#x27;s University. Her expertise include emergency nursing, professionalism in nursing, creating inclusive environments in healthcare, barriers to accessible healthcare, underrepresented populations and support in primary care for the LGBTQIA+ populations. Professionally, Dr. Aaron-Brija is associated with Beta Beta chapter of Sigma Theta Tau (nursing honor society), AANP (American Association of Nurse Practitioners), NTNP (North Texas Nurse Practitioners), and NONPF (National Organization for Nurse Practitioner Faculty)Tracy Irby, Director, Center for Women Entrepreneurs (Topic: Business/Entrepreneurial Policy) Tracy Irby has a passion for entrepreneurship. She was the first business advisor at the Center For Women Entrepreneurs after working 6 years as a business advisor for the North Texas SBDC network. She has been a serial entrepreneur for 25-plus years and owned one of the first Sears Hometown Dealer Stores, a gym, a bounce house rental business, an online self-defense business, in addition to being a licensed insurance agent and property investor. She has an MBA &amp; BBA in marketing and from Texas A&amp;M University-Commerce. She is a recent graduate of the OU Economic Development Institute and holds an Economic Development Finance Certification from the National Development Council. Meriem Aissa, JNIWL Fellow (Topic: Women&#x27;s Rights Post-Pandemic in MENA and other regions) Dr. Aissa is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Jane Nelson Institute for Women’s Leadership. Her expertise is in gender and politics in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). In particular, she focuses on the role that women politicians play in representing women’s interests in countries where there has been a significant increase in women’s presence in politics. C﻿hristina Bejarano, Political Science (Topic: Voting Rights/Access) Dr. Bejarano is a nationally recognized author, speaker, and advisor on Latina electoral politics in the U.S. She studies the conditions under which racial/ethnic minorities and women successfully compete for U.S. electoral office, which is reflected in her book on Latina political candidates--The Latina Advantage: Gender, Race, and Political Success (University of Texas Press, 2013). Her work also focuses on how racial/ethnic minorities and women can shape or influence the current electoral environment, which is reflected in her second book--The Latino Gender Gap in U.S. Politics (Routledge Press, 2014). She served as a guest expert analyst for Presidential Gender Watch in 2016 and Gender Watch in the 2018 election, helping to track and analyze the gender dynamics in both elections. Bejarano also served on the national advisory council for LatinasRepresent.Haleh Cochran, MWGS (Topic: Sexual Assault Policy) Ms. Cochran is a graduate teaching assistant within the Department of Social Work teaching on family violence and sexual assault. Using her knowledge and expertise to provide instruction related to sexual assault, family violence from teaching she also hold residence with the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault as a systems change advocate.Virtual: This workshop will be available in person and via Zoom, with activities facilitated on both formats. When you register, we&#x27;ll ask for your preferred type of attendance. Attendees will receive the Zoom link two weeks before the event or you can bookmark it here: https://twu-edu.zoom.us/j/96394489591?pwd=cUd0cHQyR1ZUdzNmcXg0NGNwTVBDUT09Parking: If you are attending in person, please use the map below for parking and venue. The yellow circle denotes the best parking, while the red arrow denote the entrance (which has an accessible ramp to the right) into the building. Parking in the lot is free after 6 p.m. The elevator in ASB is at the end of the hallway, to the left. The room is on the third floor, room 313.

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