How We Started:

The New Agenda was founded on August 11, 2008 when 30 women from around the country met in New York to sketch out plans for a new women’s advocacy group. The attendees were from all walks of life from bankers to professors to community activists. It was the 2008 elections that provided the raison d’être for the new group: to support women in leadership roles, to draw a line in the sand against the sexism and misogyny so much in evidence in 2008, and to build a national organization to advance key goals for women.

About the Event:

The New Agenda will be honoring Lady Forester de Rothschild on the evening of May 6, 2010 in New York City. The event will also feature Maria Bartiromo of CNBC, and Anne Kornblut of the Washington Post. More featured guests to be added.

We will explore, through a video presentation and Anne’s book, Notes From the Cracked Ceiling, what happens to women candidates when they run for office. We’ll then explore the unwritten chapter of “What’s Next?” What can we collectively do to get more women into politics, and ultimately into the White House.

Honoring Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild:

The New Agenda has some exciting news to report and we invite you to join us!

We will be HONORING Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, who has been an inspirational force in the formation and growth of our organization, on Thursday, May 6th, 2010.

We met Lynn in May 2008 as she courageously led the first meeting of Together4US, a group of prominent Hillary Rodham Clinton supporters who met to continue HRC’s legacy. Many refer to that first meeting, held at a home in Pound Ridge, NY as “The Second Seneca Falls.” It was with Lynn’s inspiration that in August 2008 we formed an offshoot of Together4US to focus solely on women’s issues. That organization, The New Agenda, was based on Lynn’s vision: women’s issue and country ahead of political party.

As The New Agenda took off to become a national organization, Lynn has stayed closely connected with us and helped us carve our ever evolving path. Like Lynn, The New Agenda has stayed true to its vision of honoring Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton by standing up for women in this country who often have no voice. As well, The New Agenda has honored the vow made at our first meeting: never to be silent again while a women leader was subjected to sexism.

The May 6th event will be The New Agenda Inc.’s (our 501c4) first major event, and so it is only appropriate that we honor a woman who has stood with us throughout. Lynn, like our organization, always puts women and country first. And while most of Secretary Clinton’s supporters went back to their every day lives, Lynn remains one of the few outspoken advocates for women and country.

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