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Underrepresentation of Women in the Media

Womens Media Center

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Are you tired of taking your Sunday morning coffee with a stale piece of media bias?

The Women's Media Center is fighting the severe underrepresentation of women in the media through Progressive Women's Voices, and we just announced our second class for 2010! We're training the country's emerging commentators -- journalists, organizers, and thought leaders -- with an arsenal of expertise. We need your help to keep providing extraordinary women with the platform they need to change the conversation. It costs $10,000 to train one woman -- Can you contribute $50, $250, or $500?

We're thrilled to introduce 11 women to watch as they inject their unique knowledge and perspective into the national dialogue. Over the next year, these women will receive 60 hours of training on owning your expertise, critical elements of messaging, video-journalism, and more.

Check out our video and click here to read the press release and learn about the new class:
Kirstin Falk, Progressive Strategist
Andrea Plaid, Sexual Correspondent at Racialicious
Andrea Isabel Quijada, Executive Director of the Media Literacy Project
Sheela Raja, Clinical Psychologist
Loretta Ross, National Coordinator of SisterSong
Joelle Schmitz, Senior Fellow at Harvard University
Adele Stan, Washington Bureau Chief at AlterNet
Shira Tarrant, PhD, Professor at California State University, Long Beach
Amanda Terkel, Deputy Research Director at American Progress
Manisha Thakor, Personal Finance Expert
Meggan Watterson, Executive Director of REVEAL

These women will join the network of Progressive Women's Voices alumnae who are not only changing the conversation, but the face of the media. They are following in the successful footsteps of our first class of 2010: Mac McClelland had her first television interview on MSNBC with Keith Olbermann, was featured on PBS, and received the June Sidney Award for her coverage of the impact of the oil spill on fisherman's wives in the Gulf. Sally Kohn's recent WMC Exclusive -- an open letter to Sarah Palin -- is just the latest in her hilarious commentary questioning the ideals and tactics behind the Tea Party movement. And today, radio host Aimee Allison interviewed social media guru and 2009 PWV alumna Deanna Zandt on her KPFA Morning Show.

We need your support to make Progressive Women's Voices a success and make media execs wake up and smell the gender disparity. Visit Women's Media Center/Donate to contribute today.