4th Annual Women’s Luncheon

Chef Jody Adams invites you to join us for the 4th Annual Women’s Luncheon to be held on Wednesday, February 27, 11:45am at Rialto. This year we welcome Victoria Budson, Founding Executive Director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School,  who will lead a panel discussion on women in political office, titled…

Big Gains for Women?
A Century Past Suffrage to the Senate

When: Wednesday, February 27; 11:45am – 2pm

Where: Rialto Restaurant

Tickets: are $45, inclusive of tax & gratuity.

RSVP: Please RSVP to 617-661-5050 by February 12, 2013

 

Victoria A. Budson is the founding Executive Director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School. She founded and chairs From Harvard Square to the Oval Office: A Political Campaign Practicum, an initiative of WAPPP that provides Harvard graduate students with the training and support they need to ascend in the electoral process at the local, state and national levels. In addition she advises the Obama White House Administration on policies to close gender gaps, serves on the Planning Committee for the Women in Public Service Initiative of the U.S. Department of State, and was appointed by Governor Patrick in 2010 to serve on the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women, which she now chairs. She has also served on the board of directors for the National Council for Research on Women, ivillage cares, and the National Women’s Political Caucus among others.