Women

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…

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…

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…

It was 9 am on a warm and humid Sunday when I headed to the airport and boarded on a flight to Washington, D.C. to attend PLEN’s Women and Congress Seminar. In contrast to the warm weather back home, the nation’s capital greeted me upon arrival with a blanket…

For the past four years my professor has been encouraging me to attend a PLEN seminar. So many Wesleyannes go to the seminars offered throughout the year, but I simply couldn’t afford it. Finally, my senior year, I received the PLEN scholarship and it made…