In addition, each student will receive personalized video taping and critique from a professional television producer. The session ends on Sunday with a mock campaign presentation by the students using the skills gained throughout the program. Students come from 19 different states and include two Native American women who plan to use their training to influence tribal issues. Also attending will be a graduate student from Japan and two women who currently hold office in Barbados. These students and their classmates will join with 198 graduates of the school for an Alumnae Association dinner on Saturday night, June 19.
Faculty members are professional political consultants, campaign staff and business professionals.
Speakers include Arlene Violet , the first women to be elected as a State's Attorney General, and Robin Read , president and CEO of the National Foundation of Women Legislators. Space is limited, but openings are still available.