Advocate for Opportunity with Giovanna Gray Lockhart
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ABOUT OUR GUEST:
Giovanna Gray Lockhart moved to Yarmouth, Maine full time three years ago. Her national experience spans work in government from an advisor to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York to national nonprofit leadership as a member of the Board of Directors for StoryCorps.
Previously, Lockhart held senior roles at venture-backed companies, as the Senior Director of Impact at The Wing and as Chief Strategy Officer at The Riveter. Immediately prior to coming to the Center, she provided strategic consulting, advising executive level clients across the country on philanthropy, advocacy, board-building, and communications. Lockhart sits on the Board of Trustees for the Waynflete School in Portland
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QUOTES AND KEY TAKEAWAYS
“When a door opens, you must walk through it.”
“I really feel like we are at a turning point where you don’t have to hide who you are to be powerful and lead.”
“A woman in her early thirties that is totally unafraid and out there advocating for people. She really believed in what she was doing.”
“She had fears and insecurities, like we all do, but when you have that vision and determination that is what drove her.”
“I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain, common working men.”
On Frances’ impact: “She was the pioneering advocate for economic security, social justice, labor rights, and the policy issues surrounding that. The kinds of protections that she secured are the cornerstones of modern policy and our society today: social security, minimum wage, forty-hour work week, unemployment insurance, and banning of child labor.”
Frances’ Driving Force: “When she saw these injustices and these working conditions and how people were kept in poverty through generations, there is a policy that needs to be put in place. Me helping people one at a time as a social worker is wonderful but there needs to be something more impactful and all encompassing.”
Only 12 out of ~430 National Park sites have been specifically created to recognize women’s history.
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