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Welcome to the Traverse City, MI Branch!

Our group works to advance equity for women and girls in the Grand Traverse Area. AAUW-TC connects with members through community outreach, monthly branch meetings, interest groups, programs, and scholarships. Join us!

Contact AAUW-TC  @gmail.com


UPCOMING…

The AAUW-TC Branch’s Annual Meeting
Tuesday, May 7th 
 

Meeting @ 5:00 pm
Elections @ 5:30 pm
Speaker @ 5:45 pm


April Speaker

Christina Schlitt, Co-President, Grand Traverse Area League of Women Voters: New Voting Laws in Michigan

When: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
Location: Janis Room, Dennos Museum

Biography
Christin Schlitt was president of LWVMI from 2019-21, LWVMI Co-President 2021-23 and currently Co-President of the Grand Traverse Area League.

Christina has been a member of LWV since 2001 when she checked “joining” from her bucket list. As a member of the Grosse Pointe League, she held the voter services vice president position for a decade, then moved to president. Since 2013, she served as the VP of Membership on the state board before becoming president. Christina’s degree is in management (and finance) and she has had a career in that position with several for-profit and non-profit organizations, including her own small businesses. She is now a member of the LWV of Grand Traverse Are, Crawford County Geo Unit. Christina lives with her husband in Frederic, Michigan on the Manistee River.


May Speaker

Mardi Link, author and Investigative Reporter for the Record-Eagle: “One Woman, Asking Questions”

When: Tuesday, May 7th, 2024, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Location:
Janis Room, Dennos Museum

Biography
Four months before news broke of a global pandemic, Mardi Link returned to the newsroom of a daily newspaper, after thirty years away. She’d raised three sons, — mostly alone —wrote five books — mostly alone — and was looking forward to being part of a team, and of combatting the false idea of reporters as the “enemy of the people.” She wanted to work as part of a team in pursuit of a common good: Informing residents about their community and their government. Since then, she’s covered the Antrim County election lawsuit, the plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, and failures in the state’ guardianship system, among other stores.  Mardi’s reporting at the Traverse City Record-Eagle has won awards from the Associated Press editors and was finalist for Scripps Howard First Amendment Award.

Mardi was born in Detroit, undergrad from Michigan State, master’s degree from Queens University of Charlotte in North Carolina. She lives in Traverse City, is married, and has two dogs (Olive, a corgi and Gretchen, a German Shepard).


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