Welcome to AAUW Vienna Area (VA) Branch
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Meghan Kissell, Senior Director, Policy and Member Advocacy, AAUW.
October Vienna Branch Program
How AAUW Influences Public Policy Decisions and Ways You Can Help
7 PM, Thursday, October 9, 2025
Dolley Madison Library
1244 Oak Ridge Avenue, McLean
Is America at a turning point? Are laws and policies we worked for in danger of being irreversibly lost? How is AAUW responding to this moment?
Our guest speaker, Meghan Kissell, is the Senior Director for Policy and Member Advocacy at AAUW. She will speak to us about the activities and tools AAUW is developing to protect previous policy progress and to advance issues that are part of the organization’s mission.
She brings more than 20 years of experience to her work leading AAUW’s non-partisan, mission-driven public policy efforts at the federal level. Her work also supports the grassroots advocacy work of AAUW’s membership network.
The public is invited to join us for this free program.
For more about AAUW and its core issues,
go to https://www.aauw.org/issues/
Branch Members Write Postcards to Get Out the Vote
Voters in Virginia will elect state-wide officers in early November, including Governor, Lt. Governor, and Attorney General. With that in mind, we had a very successful and fun postcard-writing party on August 12th at which 12 Vienna branch members addressed and wrote 219 postcards to help get out the vote this fall.
In conjunction with Virginia AAUW, we received the addresses and script from the Reclaim Our Vote campaign of the nonpartisan Center for Common Ground. The script reminded registered voters to vote and urged them to think about issues such as healthcare, education, and civil rights.
Altogether our branch will send out 300 postcards in September, and Virginia AAUW will send thousands!