Breanne Butler – Inspiring Cakes & Women

How do you go from baking cakes to organizing one of the largest protests in history? On this episode of RadioAMB, Patty Schmucker’s guest Breanne Butler is the person who did just that. They will be discussing how opportunity gave Breanne a start as a pastry chef in a top tier restaurant and at Facebook NY which created the pathway to becoming the frontwoman of a movement that has swept the country.

Breanne talks about how a chance to cook for Hilary Clinton at numerous events busted her out of her bubble about the world. She witnessed the passion and pain of people around the country, changing her perception of her own place in society, as both a white female and one working in a male-dominated industry.

Listen in as Patty and Breanne discuss what it means to stand in support of such a monumental movement and how current US politics is just a small part of a global need to stand up for equality. We think that is pretty important in all things in beauty.

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that celebrates Mother’s I’m delighted

by our topic today my mother born in

1932 was an inspired woman of her era

who did not acquiesce to the mores of

the time for went for how women should

behave or what they wanted from their

life my mother taught me I could achieve

anything I wanted in the world my

options were far greater than just

marriage and children

and that and to that end she encouraged

me to show up in the world strong

confident hard-working and to expect

that I could achieve all that I set to

accomplish as I look back over the last

40 years of my adult life I’m delighted

to say that I listen to my mom and

almost everything she taught me was

spot-on

what shocks me is that the one part of

her lesson that left me ill-prepared to

interact with others was showing up in

the world as a strong and confident

woman if there has been one thing that

has caused me more difficulty and

resistance has been my unwillingness to

act like a lady needless to say I am

delighted by the growing social movement

where women’s roles are changing

tremendously the period when a woman’s

contribution to society was limited to

and controlled by men is coming to an

end women are standing tall redefining

what acting like a lady means and are

playing a major role in many important

areas of society my guest today was

inspired at an early age by her

grandmother in baking and also by

fashion she’s turned these two passions

to a into a method of leadership on how

to show up as a strong and confident

woman today whether she is highlighting

a different designer a full for a

fashion cake working on her new candy

jewelry line or leading hundreds of

women in a March to find their voice you

can be sure she’s creating a concoction

from from what inspires her allow me to

introduce you to Brianna Butler a chef

in New York City and the CEO of buy

Brianna a fashion and food concept that

specializes in candy jewelry born and

raised in Detroit Michigan

Brianna received a scholarship to attend

McCobb Culinary Institute during her

senior year in high school and graduated

from the program at just 20 years old

she moved to New York City in 2011 and

began working with the Michelin star

rogue tomato and became

the pastry sous-chef 18 months later she

then became the executive pastry chef at

Facebook New York becoming widely known

in the company for her innovative and

unique desserts when Brianna isn’t in

her kitchen she loves to put stamps in

her passport traveling from South Africa

to France to expand her food knowledge

she loves to advocate for women and

diversity in the restaurant engines

industry and has mentored many cooks

through their career she is also the

director of capacity and build capacity

building and a board member for women’s

March where she has been able to use her

strengths and experience in organizing

kitchens to help organize almost 400

marches around the world welcome Brianna

we’re delighted to have you with us

hi I’m happy to be here thank you so

much well so I told the audience a

little bit about your background on peso

pastry chefs and fashion tell us how

those two things sort of came together

my cousin Rachel who actually passed

away god it’s been like seven years at

this point but he and I always would

talk about fashion we watch the Project

Runway together and we follow all the

blogs and all of that and in 2011

make-a-wish actually granted her wish to

go to Fashion Week rachel has been being

called Omen syndrome so she was

basically immune suppressed Wow

yeah so he ended up I just was New York

and she came for Fashion Week and we

went to a couple stones together she met

designers and whatnot and two weeks

after Fashion Week sanded up passing

away oh my goodness for me it was just

like okay so this is like he was like my

best friend her life list was to go to

Fashion Week like how can I somehow be

part of Fashion Week like every

right I do something for that just on

behalf of her and her spirit her memory

so it was really the main inspiration

for me trying to be sixties together and

I mean I can’t even sew a button on so I

was like I can’t actually be a fashion

designer but I was a pastry stuff and

that’s a very artistic thing so I

started to explore you know I said

couldn’t make a dress wife makes cake so

to make the cake look like a dress so it

sort of started this is really bouncing

her concept was now and seeing more of

in that trend it was full speed and

fashion but seven years ago people would

not doing anything like that so it’s

been quite a journey and you know got

evolved into my candy jewelry line which

is really cool I did that for almost a

year by saying like the whole purpose of

this car and this energy was like how on

earth does a piece of stuff from Detroit

organized one of the largest protests in

history and it’s just quite a journey a

story I never get tired of telling and I

really just think it’s so important to

share that you don’t have to have

experience in politics and you don’t

have to have you know all of this you

know all these boxes tax in order to be

an organizer or in order to make any

kind of a difference whether it’s in

your work or your neighborhood or your

school or your industry whatever or if

it’s like on a bigger national global

level which is what we ended up doing

but yeah so I was was a piece of stuff

at

Facebook for two years and hat and how

did that happen us oh so you two you’ve

started the business and you did your

your candy which is another interesting

piece you’ve all got all of these

various different pieces but you ended

up at Facebook being a pastry chef and

is that’s where you sort of got the

opportunity of to be more involved in

the New York scene in the political

environment well actually with it so I

was working at Ruth Tomas I’m not a

famous a Michelin star wrestler and then

one day when I was walking to work

I got a Facebook message from Facebook

saying that they were opening kitchens

in New York and they wanted me to be the

pizza shop so I thought it was a scam at

first I was like this is the star and I

put the job I started that in let’s see

it was August of 2015

yeah that’s right no no it’s 2014 anyway

so I was working there for almost two

years and then I ended up starting my

business and with that was the gen Julie

and I Hardy to doing the

fashion with cakes and stuff while I was

at Facebook but then I ended up

transitioning that a see more just a

full-time business for myself I was

still able to work with a lot of tech

companies work with different fashion

brands such as ours and Olivia for

instance and that was really cool so

yeah I was in the middle of doing that

and you know if you have your own

business you’re a one-woman show right

he says and I was doing everything from

rolling cookie dough out at 3 in the

morning to making deliveries in the back

of our yellow taxi cab

so knees are like five grocery stores in

one day to get the cheapest ingredients

I could find like butter was on sale at

this place I’d get my butter there’s and

eggs on sale there and all of those

things with this quite obsessed from

within a restaurant when you just called

her delivery guy and say hey I need this

right

the next day like absolutely happy so

like go around and being in New York

where I don’t have a card that was also

difficult because it was oftentimes me

swapping like all kinds of groceries on

the train or taking ubers or

what-have-you but I was doing I was

doing that and then in April of 2016 I

was asked to see cookie for Hillary

Clinton from Eva ten who works at

Instagram and she asked me cookies for

Hillary for a fundraiser she was

throwing with Diane von Furstenberg so I

was like I remember exactly where I was

I had a batch of cookies in the oven it

was almost midnight and I got that email

and I need it really like called my mom

like oh my god how exciting a really

cool moment for me but what I didn’t

expect was to go to the event and just

be so moved by the stories and hearing

just people standing up and literally

being like you have to win like I

remember there was one day man that was

there and he was like you have to win

like my husband and I just got the right

to get married and now you have to leave

a doctor suitcase and like we’re family

and now all that’s going to be in

jeopardy if you don’t win and you know

all these things and it was just like oh

my god this is so including man I had

just been in my bubble

I had this been worried about my next

order I was not paying attention to

anything political and but it was also a

really big moment for me because as a

woman and a young woman with that being

in a very male-dominated industry and

having to deal with sexism and

harassment and having to deal with even

things like equal pay you know finding

out I was making $10,000 less than

somebody else in a lower position than

me here male in another department like

all of those things of having to fight

for that constantly and representation

in the kitchen and trying to get more

women and just thinking you know if we

have a woman in our highest office then

maybe things will get better for us and

you know I think that a lot of us

especially in big cities we were in our

bubble we thought that it was like in

the bags right and in November we found

out that wasn’t the case hmm I had left

Javits Center which is where Hillary

party was and I just had to get off the

train to grow up because I was so sad

and three other women were throwing up –

just like a moment where we all had been

cried around his craft and on 42nd oh my

goodness this is this can’t be our life

for the next four years I mean people in

New York were like nine eleven and

eleven nine vera pin drop in New York

like it I’ve never felt such energy like

it was such silence

Wow yeah and you know for me as I said

like I’m a problem solver so I was just

like what next like how I’m going to get

through this this is Apple this is

horrible but what are we going to do and

so I went out Facebook that I was you

know reading all the posts of my friends

and things and I thought an event that a

woman in Hawaii

by the name of Teresa trucks had created

calling for months on Washington the day

after the inauguration and I just

reached out immediately what do you mean

what can I do to the page and you know

on Facebook it says your name and where

he works

well I still had on the by name Facebook

so I think that the team thought I was

an engineer and they were like oh you

get to make all the pieces get to DC for

the Mars and then within hours I had

women from Switzerland and London and

Australia Canada everything else do you

think I want to have a piece because we

want to have a large and women and also

women in Australia were like please

don’t seems to date because we already

bought 10 clean tickets oh my goodness

and it’s just like it became so real as

it’s so fast like all of it just

escalated so quickly and all so exciting

but it was also a little daunting

because you’re in it you’re in the thick

of it and you’re like watching this

thing go completely viral right I’m just

thinking to yourself like oh my god like

I is this like really happening like am

i really like doing this am I really on

a call with the New York Times right now

and so am i doing talking to people like

you know like we had one woman Theresa

heard who’s the vice president at Intel

for their creative agency and she was

like one of the first people to reach

out she’s like I’ve got people like you

could help you with your branding your

logo your commercial csa all this thing

and I’m just like how isn’t like I’m

supposed to be making the food right

fast that’s making the commercial not

healthy for Duisburg like this is crazy

but that’s what was so powerful about

our move

and I mean this was everything people

stepping up and taking action and saying

here’s what I can do and you know

whether with people like me that was

sheriff or fashion designers you know

mom yoga teachers I mean people like

police’ with her skill that’s just the

creative visionary like helping make our

logo that’s just like so iconic at this

way mm-hmm everybody lending their

skills in whatever path ii just helped

make this happen and we did it and we

did it he was like less than three

months with three major holidays between

like state I remember being I cook

Thanksgiving every year my grandma’s

kitchen like you know I was holding a

conference call for 200 people that I’ve

ever talked to in my life

when I was prepping Thanksgiving dinner

Wow putting myself on you when I was

talking and trying to do all the

toppings of sauteing and all the loud

stuff not like I was in I was in the

Dominican Republic for Christmas and I

was like waking up at 5:00 in the

morning to get on state calls with folks

in Europe and fearlessness it was not so

I mean and all of us were dealing with

that with our family and our friends

being like what is going on and for me

as a small business owner I really have

to make a choice and say am I going to

give up the time of year where I make a

third of my income for the whole years

between November and January am I going

to give that helped put this mark on and

you did you yeah you absolutely did and

before we break from this first segment

tell us what the results are what was

the numbers of people that showed up on

that day after the inauguration Wow I

mean

thank you an exact number I know DC

they’re estimating like 1.2 million we

had about five million people register

as they marched around the world but I

can tell you right now that that number

was probably closer to six maybe even

seven and I’ll tell you right now patty

like I was getting emails women all

around the world women in Russia women

in Sahai not even saying I couldn’t

register my Mars but on Mars

like I wrapped my dog around the block

in the basement I mean we tackle but

it’s not a new writing I’m like this is

real like these women literally and you

look at right now what’s happening to

folks in China like the government is

basically scoring them in a sense that

if you attend some sort of protest like

that like you’re you’re knocked down

ratings based on the government anybody

that is affiliated with you also just

stock down I mean this is crazy time

we’re living them but women’s rights are

under his half and I’ll tell you right

now we do not have five million people

marching around the world because of our

current President of the United States

like that was also really small thinking

right so that feels so many issues women

around the world are dealing with when

we’re talking about gender violence or

clean water or weeks of freedom

representation like all these issues

climate change I mean we had those

scientists and Antarctica marching like

they can see climate change happening in

front of their eyes right that’s why

they must I mean it was so powerful

right so powerful and it just so that

when women come together with

absolutely in it and that’s the beauty

of this is is that this there’s there’s

a whole shift that has taken place so

when we come back we’re going to talk

more about this amazing time and the

role that you’ve continued to play in it

so stay with us we’ll be right back

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patty Schmucker you’re listening to

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I’m here with Brianne Butler of the

director of capacity building and board

member for women’s March and we’ve been

talking about the women’s March that

took place after the inauguration and

has now become a movement brand tell us

a little bit about what’s happened since

since January of this year and and this

uh this amazing movement that’s taking

place sure I mean yeah I think it’s safe

to say that we haven’t really had a

problem finding reasons to either hit

the streets or do any kind of organizing

was just everything that’s happening

around the world especially here in the

United States I mean it really felt like

as soon as the March was done it was

like then I think it was the next week

the Muslim ban happened and so everybody

was heading to JFK and LAX and all the

major airports lawyers going and

spending

complete nights on the floors of Airport

trying to work with folks that were

worried about getting detained since

then too we also had a huge today for

International Women’s Day we had a huge

strike that we ended up doing a

nationwide strike where we called on

women to not go to work or school if

they could and if they couldn’t afford

to do that for whatever reason then at

least to wear red in solidarity or help

support

just unkind of women-owned business that

maybe couldn’t close for the day so we

found that our day without a women I was

really powerful because a lot of men hit

me out the more like oh my god I had no

idea how much y’all did like I had a

tough day today not everybody here like

I can’t believe that all of my female

co-workers do so much every day like the

office didn’t feel the same without them

I’m where we’re trying to make a point

of yeah like exactly you need to think

about what it’s like without us and what

we do and then and talk about things

like equal pay and represent

representation and what that means for

us when did you think that was the first

time the United States had a really

strong presence for International

Women’s Day and you mentioned right and

you said in the earlier segment which I

thought is really powerful is that this

this whole momentum is not just about

who’s sitting in the White House but

about so many issues around the world

that affect the quality of life for

women and as a result the quality of

life for humankind

exactly I mean it’s really big so

eye-opening when you again talk to women

especially outside of the US and the

issues they’re dealing with and some of

it is a bit of foreshadowing and saying

like this this person in the u.s. don’t

be blind or things that we’re above it I

mean especially it breaks my heart you

look at what’s happening the women in

Venezuela right now I mean it’s

absolutely devastating but we’ve seen

just their entire country just crumble

in a lot of ways our entire economy and

the governance of all of it it’s just

collapsing and of course women are

disproportionately affected by that I

mean every issue really and that’s why

one of the reasons why it was

women’s Mars it certainly wasn’t

excluding men or people that didn’t

identify it either gender but we wanted

to say that like love women are the most

marginalized community in the world

right and you want to take that step

further and talk about black women are

in business women are Muslim women like

then way worse but women in general

needs to be leading and we need to be

representing ourselves and our issues

we’re sick of having folks these on

behalf of us as sometimes sometimes we

want to be able to talk about our own

issues and really just have a strong

presence women make up half of this

world like we should have equality is

crazy but I mean it’s also been exciting

because – January 2016

I’m definitely seeing shifts and women

you know just happen they want to talk

about what is running for office I mean

oh my god in the US alone I mean and

it’s been really cool because even one

of our organizers for women’s marks

Florida she’s also on her national team

he’s running for office in Florida her

district and it’s a flippable district

like he’s going to turn that red from

red to blue and that’s powerful and we

just see all of that happening and this

wave of women really stepping up you

want to talk about times up and the me –

movement what’s happening there I mean

women are really starting to finally

understand that when we come together we

support each other and when we support

the most marginalized among us then we

argue equality I mean again if we

liberate the rights of an indigenous

woman and we liberate the rights of a

white woman like obviously those two are

just this is kind of intersectionality

and things it’s been really good having

these conversations – from Abby’s

educational moment when we’re on the

ground talking to a lot of women

especially white women

I mean I think it’s important to note

that a lot of people that either

organized or embark on women’s March

that was the first time they March and

myself included but another day there’s

nothing wrong with eyes but we need to

stop and recognize and say that we

especially as white women one late to

the game like this might be new to us

but this is a new like civil rights is a

new battle this is something that women

of color particularly have been battling

a long time and that’s Anna and you’re

taught you one of the one of the main

initiatives of this organization is

education and just that you’re you being

able to really convey some of these

important concepts to people and you

have a program specifically called

challenging the white woman tell us a

little bit about that yeah we have a

program a workshop we do called

confronting white womanhood and talk

exactly about these issues in a sense

that it’s really feeling the layers and

believe me this is a very like deep

wound that needs to be filled

not only the US or the country but

particularly between women of color and

weight women deep wound especially since

let’s not forget about the percentage of

women that voted for white women that

voted for Donald Trump it was like I

know I know personally like coming from

Detroit I know that there was a lot of

women of color that did not want to vote

for Hillary but they did because they’re

like we cannot have Trump and I don’t

want to get into like the whole politics

of you know Hillary and Bernie and

whatnot but what I’m saying is women of

color knew what was that risk and guess

what like guess he the first people this

administration was going to go after and

it proves true like the Muslim women

black women black men too

I mean all of those movies were the

first to be affected by the Trump

administration but yeah I think that

that was just a shock for all of us and

again all women like women do that was

for the first time a lot of a lot of

white women women were scared for the

first time when Trump was elected and

again myself included and there’s

nothing wrong with us emphasizing and

recognizing that fear and knowing that

you know a lot of us are seized but in

in that feeling but again we have to

take a pause and recognize that we are

late to the fight and that women of

color have been in this fight and

whether you’re talking about standing

rocks or if you’re talking about

Baltimore oh right right this thing’s

have been happening so much longer than

it since November of 2016 right all

right well we’re going to take another

break and when we’ll come when we come

back we’ll talk about becoming an

activist and what are some of the things

that the women’s March is doing to get

out the votes stay with us we’ll be

right back

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us this is patty Schmucker you’re

listening to radio a and B on healthy

life net I’m here with Brianne Butler

she is the director of capacity building

and a board member for women’s March and

we’ve been talking about all of the

things that have happened in this last

18 months and the development of the

women’s March Brianne tell us a little

bit about what are the in the

educational component what are you

teaching people about how to become an

activist

so right now the big campaign were

currently working on a cane city tour

where we’re going around the country and

you’re talking with not only our pastors

but I see different partners and

different folks on the ground about a

lot of these I see during work doing

workshops and panels using and then also

doing rallies and just trying to boost

morale time to get people Pumped up and

also talking about getting out to vote

this November for the midterm elections

I know that I’ve had a lot of people

tell me I have never even voted in a

midterm election and I don’t even know I

only vote every four years and that’s

okay it that was your past but moving

forward every single person especially

women

need to be I suppose every election

cycle but the midterm elections are

super important this year a lot of

people don’t understand that midterm

elections often see who is in our center

and our Congress that our representative

on a local level statewide level

regional level and it really does build

up to the presidential election every

four years but especially as women you

know we can’t forget that our

grandmothers voted for our grandmother’s

fought for our right to vote so it’s

really important for us to be using our

vote to shape the way our country is

going so while working on this tour

we’ve already assumed you see past

weekend we went to North Carolina which

was really powerful we’ve been to Ohio

we started the tour off in Las Vegas

with a big rally on our anniversary so

it’s been really exciting and it’s

really great to be going to these red

states where that are often overlooked

and oftentimes are disregarded

especially from folks living in more

urban area so it’s been a really

powerful and helpful to be traveling

around and talking to folks directly on

the ground the issues that they are

challenged them issues are important to

them what have you but as far as as far

as you know talking to people about

getting involved I think it’s important

to recognize that step one is again

understanding that everybody can make a

difference and whether your difference

is something small whether even if it’s

in your home just talking to you know a

racist uncle or whatever like that that

right there is something that everybody

can do but as far as making a difference

on a bigger level that is also something

that everybody has the power and the

fire inside of them to do

so it’s important to be inspiring and

just making sure to meet people where

they’re at is saying like look what are

the skills you have like how that can

defy to activism I mean for me as it

sounds like I’m not a tech person I’m

not a computer person like and the

thought of even making a spreadsheet is

like talking to me even having women

during the March planning or what have

you say hey like I can do this I can

make this spreadsheet that will organize

the buses or I can do XYZ I mean all of

those are skills that you wouldn’t think

it but those are all places where people

can even plug into that might be doing

that on on the daily for their job or

whatever their business so we really

focus really focusing on on what your

particular skill set is and being able

to come together with other people and

figure out how you can lean in and make

a contribution sounds like it is the

first place again talking about in the

last segment how people of color have

been in the civil rights the hello for a

long long long time decades like there’s

a lot of community meetings that happen

on a weekly bi-weekly monthly basis that

folks can definitely attend and even

just sit there observe listen and say

I’m here to help if you need me and I

love that that’s and have such an

important thing because I I joined a

group at the beginning of the year

called the nasty church ladies and

actually the the real emphasis of this

group is let’s listen let’s hear one

another and and and one of the biggest

things I one of my very very best best

friends as a very strong devout

Republican and we actually have been

able to come to a point of talking and

listening to one another and I’ve

learned things from her but she’s also

learned from me and I think that’s

probably one of the biggest parts of

this this piece about showing up and

being able to learn that

skill set absolutely and also I should

say this is another layer of it a still

up but be be mindful of how you show up

mm-hmm it’s really too I’ve seen that

happens where people come to these

meetings and they don’t know anybody or

anything and they might be sort of a

Type A personality and that’s great like

again a lot of the women that are in the

leaders two goals and women’s March are

type a they’re very strong-willed and

that’s good so we need that energy and

of course you know people Butthead

you’re not going to agree on everything

but it’s really important that when you

go to these meetings again to show up as

an ally and say what do you need to help

don’t throw up thinking that you’re

going to save the world and you’re gonna

like you know with this event in the

safe or what-have-you like I mean you’re

guests in these meetings especially when

you want to talk about community

meetings that have been happening a long

time you are there as a guest and it’s

really important to to show up just to

show up and say what do you need what do

you need help length and not so up to

say oh well we need you to come to our

events or we need you to do X or we need

you to come to this like I think that

that’s another mistake I’ve seen happen

and that oftentimes is a very naive

mistake or coming from a place of oh I

just thought that whatever but it’s

again important because right now we

really especially between white people

and people of color there needs to be a

trust that’s built again and we need to

be filling up in their spaces saying hey

we are allies like we are here to use

whatever skills you need or any kind of

privilege we can offer to help make this

event but we’re I do you know whatever

we’ve and your efforts or kind of like

barge in and do it better and bigger

like all those things are you know just

missing the point completely it’s

important to respect the work that has

been done and the work that is going to

continue

would be done yes and that and I and I

love that and on that note we’ll take

another break but I love the idea that

respect the work that’s already been

done because there’s a lot of movement

that’s already taken place when we come

back we’ll talk about some of the

partners that the women’s mark March is

looking for and what some of their plans

are for moving forward stay with us

we’ll be right back

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I’m here with bran Butler she is the

director of capacity building and a

board member for the women’s March and

we have been talking about the things

that have happened since the women’s

March came together bran tell us a

little bit about some of the partners

that that you are working with and that

you would like to be working with to

continue some of your efforts because we

have hundreds of centers but it’s really

exciting because you’ve got folks from

national initiative to folks from

grasses in essence what was the name of

the ladies you meet with the nasty

church ladies I mean a lot a lot of just

really really grasses local

organizations have financed a partner

for whether it’s our convention or the

power to the cold campaign were working

on or any kind of March and it’s really

exciting I mean I think that one of the

powerful things about women’s March and

we are a semester and it’s been cool

because a lot of our partners even were

like you know work we’ve never actually

worked with this person

we’ve never even heard of this

organization even though we’re all in

alignment I’m working on the same get

together so it was really cool to be

able to see that happening as a

relationship building that happened as a

result of women’s March because it truly

was an umbrella and bringing a lot of

these people from different sectors

together and it was also cool to see

like you know organizations that might

be in the fight for reproductive freedom

tacking and interact

with folks and the fight for racial

justice or climate change and so that

was also really cool to be able to

assist lots of transformation of

activists and organizers that might be

just so focused on one issue and really

see those conversations happening about

other people and there it seems that

they’re fighting on and working around

it was really just beautiful to us and

see and we have our unity principles

which we created during the March

planning and it’s they’re really just

really beautiful I encourage everyone to

look at them on our website but we

talked about reproductive rights LGBT

rights workers rights civil rights

disability rights immigrant rights etc

so to really just bring partners from

all of those different backgrounds

together for womens Marge and I also

have even people in those faces help us

create our strategy around the unity

principle was also really powerful to

have a different perspective and those

voices and really trying to make us as

inclusive and as intersectional as

possible what are some of the things

that you did for you personally what are

some of the things that I’ll have been

the greatest

OHA’s I mean I think that I’ve already

talked about Rena ban was just like

watching again and these women of color

that have been in the spice for so long

I mean I’ve even just recently had an

aha moment I was watching the

documentary on a field also back more

rising and just watching these black

women and men doing the exact same pants

that we’ve been doing the past year and

a half and the same mark cries and rally

cut ties and watching them

completely like you know tase or

whatever like by the police and having

all of this just chaos around them and

the tension being felt from them doing

that and literally fearing for their

lives and their safety and it was a

little bit humbling to see like just a

year and a half later you know we have

people going to rallies and marches over

the weekend and shouting out these this

amazing historical chance and they don’t

have that fear and they don’t have you

know the worry of oh my god am I going

to get am I going to get shot or am I

going to get hurt or am I going to get

beat up or am I gonna be thrown in jail

like that fear is not there so it’s

definitely it’s important to again just

respect the work that’s been happening

and the sacrifices that have been made

and to really brush up on history I mean

and to be honest I I’m excited I

actually am taking a summer course at

Cornell this summer around diversity and

inclusion just to try to understand and

learn more about it but I learn everyday

even just reading articles or reading

books listening to podcasts or shows

like this one and just just a few

different women that have been in these

spaces and different ages to like

talking to older women and listening

about their struggles if they had and

just the evolution of feminism in

general has been really powerful but I

think that every day it’s important to

just listen and really listen with your

heart and absorb this knowledge and

absorb our history and respect and honor

what the women before us have done and

how we can carry that porch moving

forward one of my favorite moments of

planning the March was when elder

Bernice King dr. king’s daughter got on

the call with all of us and said you all

are picking up the courts but my father

left behind when he was assassinated and

it’s so important that you don’t drop

that torch because

and drops the past 50 years and we can’t

let it drop again it’s our duty to make

sure that we keep parents carrying that

baton and pass it along to the next

people and you don’t know who who the

next war is dying on Angela Davis is in

a room and again that’s why it’s so

important to not look at people’s

credentials or what they’ve done or the

hive and done just be a passionate open

mind somebody that wants to contribute

and help because you don’t know when you

light some is inner fire you don’t know

what that flame could turn out to be and

the effect that could have and the lives

that could be impacted and changed from

that so it’s so important to not

disregard people or you know suspend

judgment or try to try to just really

see the human soul for what it is and

not have the big buzz and stereotypes

around it bran thank you it’s really

delightful to listen to you and you know

some of the things that you touched me

today with you know really listen with

your heart and learning about history

because you know history is not that

long ago I’m just barely 60 and I

remember the day that the Anita Hill and

Clarence Thomas a trial took place and I

remember how it was a water moment it

was a watershed moment and my career

went in a different direction as a

result of this so thank you thank you

for the work that you’re doing thank you

for sharing your time today

and thanks for being with us and telling

you great all right well that’s going to

do it for us today get out and vote one

way or another no matter what it’s

important and next week join me as we

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