Women LEADing Ohio w/ Louise Valentine and Mikayla Lee
b'Carolyn Harding with Louise Valentine and Mikayla Lee, organizers with Women LEADing Ohio, part of the non-profit, Lead Ohio. Their mission is to make a difference in communities across Ohio by recruiting, training, supporting and empowering progressive leaders in all regions of the state.\\n\\nLouise Valentine has been the Deputy Director for LEAD Ohio since February 2019. Louise was a graduate of the 2018 LEAD Ohio LEADership Academy, which helped prepare her to run for Ohio Senate in district 19. The skills she learned and the relationships she built in the program helped propel her to the highest ever vote total for a Democrat in Delaware County. Louise is a lifelong resident of Ohio, born and raised in Elyria and attended The Ohio State University. Before her life in politics, Louise spent over 12 years in various roles in corporate retail in Central Ohio.\\n\\nMikayla Lee is a recent graduate from The Ohio State University where she studied Economics and Public Affairs. Mikayla is passionate about electoral politics and progressive and inclusive government. She most recently managed State Representative Jessica Miranda\\u2019s successful re-election campaign in Cincinnati, Ohio, and previously interned on federal campaigns, at the Ohio Statehouse, and on Capitol Hill. Mikayla has joined LEAD Ohio as a Communications and Research Associate.\\n\\nWith Ohio\\u2019s recently drawn gerrymandered district maps, currently being sued before the Ohio Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court, we see that there is one woman to six men in the redistricting commission that created these discriminatory maps.\\n\\nWill more (progressive) women in seats of power make Ohio more fair, more equitable, more democratic?\\n\\nLeadohio.org\\n\\nGrassRoot Ohio - Conversations with everyday people working on important issues, here in Columbus and all around Ohio.\\n\\nEvery Friday 5:00pm, EST on 94.1FM & streaming worldwide @ WGRN.org,\\nSundays at 2:00pm EST on 92.7/98.3 FM and streams @ WCRSFM.org, and Sundays at 4:00pm EST, at 107.1 FM, Wheeling/Moundsville WV on WEJP-LP FM.\\n\\nContact Us if you would like GrassRoot Ohio on your local station.\\n\\nCheck us out and Like us on Face Book: https://www.facebook.com/GrassRootOhio/\\nCheck us out on Instagram:\\nhttps://www.instagram.com/grassroot_ohio/\\nIf you miss the Friday broadcast, you can find it here: All shows/podcasts archived at SoundCloud! https://soundcloud.com/user-42674753\\nGrassRoot Ohio is now on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../grassroot-ohio/id1522559085\\nThis GrassRoot Ohio interview can also be found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAX2t1Z7_qae803BzDF4PtQ/\\n\\nIntro and Exit music for GrassRoot Ohio is "Resilient" by Rising Appalachia: https://youtu.be/tx17RvPMaQ8\\n\\nThere\'s a time to listen and learn, a time to organize and strategize, And a time to Stand Up/ Fight Back!'