Stories of Success

This is the sixth and final workshop in our series Your Passion, Your Leadership: A Workshop Series for Aspiring Women Advocates.  Zandra Rice-Hawkins will share firsthand experiences of organizing against harmful policies, building coalitions, and winning real victories, offering inspiration and practical lessons for participants’ own leadership journeys.

Your presenter will be Zandra Rice Hawkins:

Zandra Rice Hawkins is the founding Executive Director of Granite State Progress & Engage NH. She developed her communications expertise with groups such as America Coming Together and New Hampshire for Health Care. As a national organizer for Corporate Accountability International, she mobilized faith communities and organized shareholder actions to challenge corporate control of water and protect our fundamental human right to water. 

Zandra was named the Business and Professional Women of New Hampshire’s 2009 Young Careerist, the NH Citizens Alliance Organizational Partner of the Year Award (2012), the NH Young Democrats Progressive of the Year (2018), the Merrimack County Democrats Mary Louise Hancock Awardee (2019), and received the national Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus Award (2021) for her successful campaign leadership around gun violence prevention. She is proud to have been part of two Business Ethics Network Benny award-winning campaigns, the Think Outside the Bottle Campaign (First Place, 2006) and the ALEC Exposed Campaign (First Place, 2012). 

Zandra is a former three-term Concord City Councilor, and previously served on the boards of ProgressNow and the Mill Brook and Broken Ground PTA’s. She is active in her local Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) committee and a founding member of the N.H. Countering Christian Nationalism Coalition. A graduate of Gonzaga University, Zandra lives in Concord with her husband Brian and two adorable, inquisitive children.

Your Passion, Your Leadership: A Workshop Series for Aspiring Women Advocates: In partnership with the League of Women Voters of New Hampshire, MomsRising, and other women-centered community organizations, this six-part workshop series will empower women in the Upper Valley to step into their power as leaders and advocates. Using the disproportionate impacts of HB 1569 on women’s right to vote as a central case study, the series will provide participants with the tools, skills, and confidence necessary to engage in effective advocacy. From understanding how power operates on a day-to-day basis in our communities, to mastering communications and social media, to managing volunteers and sharing success stories, each session is designed to strengthen women’s voices and build a more representative democracy.

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