Statehouse Lobby Corps and Issue Advocacy

The branch’s latest incarnation of AAUW’s citizen lobby corps began in 2015. The team’s mission is to advance AAUW of Idaho priority issues during the Idaho legislative session. Key issues chosen for focus during the 2017 legislative session included the following: Add the Words, Early Learning, Education Funding, Human Trafficking/Sexual Assault, Close the Gap and STEM.  Visit the AAUW Idaho Advocacy page for more information. Join us and make your voice heard! Contact our branch public policy chair for more information.

Members of the Lobby Corps gather at the Idaho statehouse for hearings in 2018.

Members attended the Families Belong Together rally at the Statehouse on June 30, 2018.

Members representing AAUW march from the Idaho State Capitol to the Idaho Anne Frank Memorial in Boise to support the March for Health Care, July 15, 2017.

Statehouse Lobby Corps members attending Health Care policy listening session, January 24, 2018.

AAUW Idaho members flock to the Idaho State Capitol and Boise City Hall to celebrate the Women’s March on Idaho, January 21, 2017

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Read the Idaho Statesman Guest Opinion pieces written by Sylvia Chariton and Amy Bruggeman in 2016 here. Chariton addresses Title IX; Bruggeman discusses the need to fill the current Supreme Court vacancy, following the death of Justice Scalia.

Equal Pay Day was Tuesday, April 14, 2015. The branch met at the Riverside Hotel for ‘UnHappy Hour,’ to recognize the symbolic day and celebrate Lilly Ledbetter’s birthday. Download an event flyer and brochure.  Visit FightForFairPay.org for more information about pay equity.  In 2016, 2017 and 2018, the branch held less formal “UnHappy Hours” for members to mark Equal Pay Day.