Pat DeWitt, AAUW Georgia Past President, and current Public Policy chair is a published newspaper columnist writing on AAUW related topics. She started writing editorials in 2006, long before the AAUW Voices Project, which she does participate in. Twelve of her articles are on the Rome News Tribune site including her latest article, on Women’s Equality Day.
The AAUW Voices Project is a country-wide community of media first-responders, armed with training, resources, and support and ready to pen op-eds, letters to the editor, blog posts, and more. The goal is to have AAUW voices published throughout the nation to educate the public, spark discussion, and influence the debate.
DeWitt reports that no one in GA accepted her Equal Pay Day editorial this year except the Rome News-Tribune. In the next Voices Project phase, writers have been asked to write about social security. She will do that on the Voices Project timeline and see what happens. She also likes to pursue topics that are not legislative as you can tell by the topics she has written about.
She suggests “that probably any hometown paper would be more likely to publish an op-ed from someone local. Therefore we could use some more op-ed writers here in Georgia.” She is willing to provide a training session at a state meeting so there are more op-ed writers on AAUW topics.