What
People are Saying About WAM!:
“WAM! was one of the best conferences
I’ve been to in a long time… It brought together women
who are political and progressive, and women who are working journalists.
It engaged with the media instead of just sniping at it from
the margins, taking the attitude that change can be made.
It was especially useful for me as an editor who makes it a priority
to cultivate women’s voices; I connected with people
there whom I might not have otherwise.”
-Betsy Reed, senior editor, The Nation
“The connections we made at WAM! weren’t limited
to that weekend. Conversations that began during keynotes
were fleshed out in break-out sessions, continued informally in small
groups that talked well past midnight, and, most important, kept going
on the listserv and in professional, academic, and personal projects
and alliances, weeks and months later.”
- Jennifer Pozner, founder/director, Women In Media & News
(WIMN)
“The WAM! conference inspires, invigorates, provokes
and reminds us of the power of women, both individually and
collectively. It is that rare place in which women can talk, laugh,
disagree, commiserate, strategize and, most importantly, build community.
I do not intend to miss one!”
- Jill Nelson, journalist and author (Volunteer Slavery,
Finding Martha’s Vineyard)
“We recently began carrying Mikhaela's cartoons! Just one of
the many great things to come out of WAM!. Working out here
in the fly-over zone it was wonderful and heartening to me so many
smart, dedicated women involved in so many aspects of the media.”
- J. Trout Lowe, editor, Minnesota Women’s Press
“I attended the first WAM! because I was working in mainstream
media at Teen Vogue and looking to make more connections with feminists.
I met feminist editors I have continued to keep in touch with, and
one of them introduced me to writer with whom I’m now
co-writing a book for Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux. (A book,
in part, about the way Sassy Magazine brought feminist to a generation
of teen girls). I was thrilled to attend the second WAM. For
me, WAM! is a chance for women in the mainstream media and feminist
media to cross-pollinate and figure out ways to work together.”
- Kara Jesella
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