Audacious Voices

• Host alum focused event/conference at University of Richmond to bring together program alums and contributors as a book launch event. • Promote to alums throughout the program’s history (the program has been in existence since 1980). • Work with the twelve contributors to the book to market it to their communities and hold alum-related events in larger areas where many alums live (Washington, DC, for example). • Reach out specifically to schools/universities that have replicated the WILL* program to promote book/host an event to promote book. • Utilize the resources of the authors’ university to promote the book (getting a feature in the alumni magazine, for example). • Promotion via the program’s and the college’s website and social media platforms. • Promotion at various academic/student development conferences by presenting and networking at the conferences: National Women’s Studies Association, NCCWSL (National Conference for College Women Student Leaders), NASPA (for student affairs administrators in higher education), ACPA (College Student Educators International), International Women’s Leadership Association, Creating Change (LGBTQ Taskforce) etc. • Work with American Association of University Women to promote book to a range of college women’s leadership programs across the nation. • Organize a session for the program administrators pre-conference at NWSA (National Women’s Studies Association). • Advertisements on the NWSA website, as well as the women’s studies listserv WMST-L.

Detailing twelve personal narratives of transformation through feminist education and activism, Audacious Voices is an accessible, pragmatic book that emphasizes hope, empathy, resiliency, and solutions in a time of so many entrenched problems.Inspiring and hopeful, Audacious Voices is a collection of twelve stories from alumnae/alumni of WILL*, a feminist model for education. Each author featured in this book is working, in their own distinct way, to make their communities more equitable—and their stories illustrate how different elements of the WILL* program influence and inspire them to act with such intentionality. Author-activist Courtney Martin writes in The New Better Off that the times we live in may break our hearts, but they don’t have to break our spirit; it’s that spirit that these stories capture, alongside the power of a feminist educational program that engenders such spirit. Emphasizing hope, empathy, resiliency, and solutions by showcasing the transformative power of inclusive leadership, advocacy, and mentorship, Audacious Voices reminds us that real change is possible, even in the current political climate.