I had the pleasure of working with the amazing young women pictured above who were part of the RepresentWomen team in 2020!

Dear friend,

I am writing to report on what the RepresentWomen team accomplished in 2020 and to ask that you consider supporting ourwork in 2021 to lay the groundwork for serious and sustained progress toward gender balance in politics in the coming decade.

Here are highlights of what we accomplishedin 2020:

We researchedthe structural barriers that women face as candidates and the best practices to get more women into office - faster, and published a number of reports & briefs, including:

1. PACs & Donorsreport&case studies
2. Ranked Choice Votingreport
3. InternationalWomen'sRepresentationreport&dashboard
4. Women and the presidencybrief
5. Women in executive leadershipbrief
6. Women'srepresentationon Tribal Nationsreport
7. Incarceratedwomen'srights andrepresentationreport
8. U.S. House expansionbrief
9. Gender Parity Indexreport
10. District designbrief

We communicatedabout our research via digitaland traditional media with a targeted audience of allies, journalists, academics, advocates, and elected officials. This work included:

• countless posts on social media platforms includingTwitter,LinkedIn,Facebook&Instagram
• numerous op-eds (here isa sample) and background conversations with journalists
• myweeklyblogonMs Magazine
• updates to ourwebsite(that we maintain ourselves)
• a chapter inThe Best Candidate: Presidential Nomination in Polarized Times.

We collaboratedwith partners in the democracy reform andwomen'srepresentationmovement, with campaigns for voting system reform, with the ReflectUS Coalition, and with state groups around the country. Here is a testimonial from Jen Simon at theWyomingWomen'sAction Network:

Right now, I am working with several partners in Wyoming on two policy briefs--one aboutwomen'srepresentationand one aboutwomen'seconomic impact in Wyoming--and I would be unable to complete this work without RepresentWomen's research and materials.

And it is not just in my policy work that your research is indispensable. I use it with Cowgirl Run Fund--Wyoming's first PAC dedicated to electing more women from across the political spectrum--as well as refer to it in media interviews on a regular basis. I use it in my Equity State column in the Jackson Hole News&Guide. I use it for essays and policy briefs for the WyomingWomen'sAction Network.

I truly cannot imagine trying to work in a gender justice policy space without the groundwork that you and your team provide.

We modeled inclusionin 2020 through work withadiverse set of allies who span the ideological, racial, age, and geographic spectrum. I am determined to make sure that RepresentWomen board members, interns, staff, and strategic advisors reflect the diversity of American women.

We celebrated the centennial of suffragewith our 2020 calendar ofwomen leaders that we sent to every woman member of Congress, women on the Supreme Court, women governors & mayors, women college presidents, friends, and family. We hadn't anticipated that the calendar would be so popular - we had to order more copies to fill all the orders and have enjoyed a wonderful array of thank you notes from many happy recipients!

Can we count on your support?Ihope that you willconsider making a donation to RepresentWomento support and expand our young, diverse team and help us to build our capacity to advocate for the systemic strategies that research tells us are the building blocks of a truly representative democracy.

Equality can't wait.

Many thanks,

Cynthia