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         Announcement:




                   The program chair was given a challenge to obtain an outstanding speaker from
         Southern California …..because our  Northern neighbors had a speaker.
         So my challenge was to get a good one.


                   Mayor Karen Bass?.. or perhaps Gloria Allred?  Both interested in women’s
         issues. However let’s look at our own Federation. And I came out with the perfect
         speaker.


                   At Annual Conference we will have a speaker and member from southern Cali-
         fornia - Ashley Maria, who is a member of Hollywood BPW. She had a goal (to be a Di-
         rector in Hollywood). She faced many difficulties in making that happen. She fund-
         raised to be able to produce and direct an award-winning film called "Pioneers in
         Skirts." She will soon have another documentary coming out. Her activities in BPW in-
         cluding working with BPW-International. National, State, District and Club level. She
         represented BPW-International at the United Nations Commission on the Status Wom-
         en before the Pandemic. For two years she represented our Young BPW members on
         the NFBPWC Executive Committee and was the person who got the Young BPW mem-
         ber as a permanent position on the NFBPWC Executive Committee. Ashley Maria will
         share her message on Zoom via a video as we did for Congress Woman and member
         of East Los Angeles-Montebello BPW Judy Chu and newly elected Los Angeles County
         Supervisor Lindsey Horvath.


                   She will share how not to give up in remembering the words of
         Susan B Anthony: “Failure is Impossible.”



         Marjory Hopper

         CFBPW Program Chair
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