National and state leaders will lift up central importance of paid leave, broader care economy

CHICAGO, IL – Join us as leaders from co-hosts Family Values @Work Action and Women Employed, along with national care advocacy networks including MomsRising Action, Poder Latinx, Black Women’s Roundtable, and Main Street Alliance gather with elected officials, convention delegates, and state-based changemakers in Chicago on Tuesday, August 20, 2024. Speaker remarks and pop-up discussions will point the way forward on making care policies–such as paid family medical leave and affordable child care–central priorities in the next presidential administration.

Who:

• Carol Joyner, Executive Director, Family Values @Work Action

• Monifa Bandele, Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, MomsRising Action

• Melanie Campbell, President and CEO of National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and Convener, Black Women’s Roundtable

• Starr De Los Santos, Associate Director of Coalitions, Illinois Time to Care Coalition

• Cherita Ellens, President and CEO, Women Employed

• Rebecca Garrard, Deputy Executive Director, Citizen Action of New York

• Jenn Stowe, Executive Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance 

• Yadira Sanchez, Executive Director, Poder Latinx

• Milly Silva, Secretary Treasurer, 1199SEIU

• Richard Trent, Executive Director, Main Street Alliance

Additional speakers to be confirmed. Interview opportunities with speakers, leaders, and delegates available.

When: August 20, 2024, 12:00 – 2:00 CT

Where: The Sable Hotel on Navy Pier, 900 E Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60611

RSVP: To learn more or confirm your attendance, please follow this link or contact Carolyn Davis, media@familyvaluesaction.org, 214-395-8149 by August 19, 2024. Location details will be given upon RSVP.