WAND Hill Event

N.  Indiana’s Doloris Cogan and Karen Jacob — chapter president and national board chair  (front row left to right) — are joined by WAND national staff and board member and benefactor, Edie Allen, (to Karen’s left) after the WAND/WiLL Capitol Hill Reception on February 3 to celebrate the new, progressive women of Congress.

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Doloris Cogan presents her book, “Guam:  How we fought the Navy and Won” to Ken Myers, III, Senator Lugar’s senior aide on the Foreign Relations Committee during a visit she and Karen Jacob made while they were in D.C. for the WAND/WiLL reception.

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Kathy Crandall Robinson, (left) and Karen Jacob, (right) look on as Marie Rietmann pose with Rep. Debbie Halvorson, (D) ILL-11, one of the ten new progressive women in the 111th Congress that WAND/WiLL supported.————————————————————————————————–

Susan Shaer, (left) and Karen Jacob, (right), speak with a member of Representative Barney Frank’s staff

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Two women from Afghanistan (center) attended the Hill reception.  They both work with women’s groups in Afghanistan and were visiting the United States as guests of Lisa Schirch of Eastern Mennonite University where she is a professor of Peacebuilding and Director of 3D Security Initiative www.3Dsecurity.org.

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Karen Jacob, (president of WAND of N. Ind. and Chair of WAND’s national board), welcomes all to the celebration of the ten new, progressive women to Congress and 44 total WAND/WiLL women in Congress.

See more about WAND/WiLL’s February 3rd Hill Reception at:  http://www.wand.org/issuesact/actions/dcrecepinvite%2009.htm