When I got an email calling for applications for funding to attend the PLEN Women in Corporate and Nonprofit Leadership Seminar, I wanted to immediately jump on the opportunity. When I began reading about the history of PLEN and the…

I was walking with my friend helping her pin up posters to advertise the PLEN seminars throughout our school when I first heard about the PLEN Women in STEM Policy seminar in Washington D.C. The whole time…

I met Mallory Ladd at the 2017 Women in Global Policy seminar. She and her two colleagues, fellow Ph.D. candidates from the University of Tennessee, successfully employed crowd-funding to finance their attendance at the seminar. Full disclosure: I made a contribution to their effort…

I recently had the opportunity to attend Women in Global Policy PLEN seminar. I am currently attending Tulane University and was able to learn about PLEN through the efforts of the Newcomb College Institute (NCI), which has its roots in…

Not only does PLEN hold its own seminars, lectures, and events but they also collaborate with other organizations in the D.C. area to offer their members and students incredible opportunities.Recently, PLEN paired up with WGR, an organization that is dedicated to helping…

Although I have been interning at PLEN for only a couple of weeks, I have seen the amazing benefits of working with such a transformational organization. Two very important things I got to experience through these weeks was learning the inner-workings of a nonprofit and ways to network better…