Page 18 - Berkeley BPW Club Centennial Commemorative Booklet - May 21st 2022

GUEST SPEAKERS 18

Peg Carlson-Bowen, Past President
American Association of University Women
(AAUW) San Jose
Peg Carlson-Bowen is a South Bay
native and Past President of the American
Association of University Women (AAUW),
San Jose Branch.
She has also advocated for local,
state and national legislation as Vice President of Public
Policy. Her ongoing work includes equity initiatives, financial
literacy for women, youth voter registration and promoting
civic engagement.
She is a graduate of UC Santa Barba-
ra and the University of Poitiers and spent her career in
Information Technology at Unisys, Activision, Apple and Cis-
co. She and her husband both serve on AAUW San Jose's
Board and are proud parents of a daughter who is a teacher
and coach.■
AAUW CFBPW

AAUW is a local, state and national organization that has
been advocating for women and girls through education, ad-
vocacy and research since 1881, beginning with its research
in 1913 on Pay Equity in the Federal Workforce and continu-
ing through its recent report Broken Ladders: Barriers to
Women’s Representation in Nonprofit Leadership. We are
one of the largest providers of scholarships for women's edu-
cation, having dispensed over $70 million for graduate stud-
ies and fellowships. Though we are a non-partisan organiza-
tion, we are not values neutral. AAUW's Public Policy pri-
orities align closely with those of the CFBPW, including
Economic Equity, Increasing Women in Leadership Positions,
Choice and Equality in Women's Healthcare, Freedom from
Sexual Harassment and the United National Convention on
the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women
(CEDAW). ■