WUFPAC Co-Hosts “Spotlight on the New Generation of Women in Congress”

Washington, DC – WUFPAC honored the three newly elected women members of Congress under forty at a breakfast yesterday. Honorees included Congresswomen Kathy Castor, Gabrielle Giffords and Kirsten Gillibrand. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, 37, spoke to a packed room at Tortilla Coast about the importance of getting women involved in politics and her experience as a woman running for Congress. She also reflected on her first six months in Congress and answered questions from the crowd.

Twenty Russian women from the Russian Women Leaders program hosted by the Women & Politics Institute joined the discussion as special guests. Congresswoman Giffords was pleased to engage the women from this program, designed to equip Russian women with the political, legal and business skills needed to become stronger and more effective leaders.

WUFPAC co-hosted the event with Women in Government Relations, non-profit, nonpartisan government relations association in the Washington metropolitan area.