Media Advisory Sent Out by the Office of Senator Holly J. Mitchell, California State Senate

Sister Simone Campbell and other witnesses to testify in California.

Media Advisory:

Senate Select Committee: Women and Inequality: Strategies to Promote Opportunity

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 13, 2014

Contact: Charles Stewart, 213-745-6656

WHO:       Senate Select Committee on Women & Inequality; Strategies to Promote Opportunity

Chair, Senator Holly J. Mitchell

Members of the Committee in attendance

Witnesses:

Panel One

• Sister Simone Campbell, SSS, Executive Director, NETWORK, A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby 

Panel Two

• • Dr. Rita Cameron Wedding, Chair of Women’s Studies, Professor of Women’s Studies and Ethnic Studies, Sacramento State University
  • Ana Matosantos, Policy Consultant
  • Anne Sanger, Policy Advisor, U.S. Representative Doris Matsui

Comments from the Public in attendance

WHY:          One in four US women lives in poverty.  CA’s gender wage gap is 23.5% since 2001

WHEN:       June 17, 2014   4-6 p.m.

WHERE:     Room 4020, State Capitol, Sacramento, CA

HOW:          Open to the public and LIVE streaming at http://sd26.senate.ca.gov/live

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