Summertime is Here!

Our business year ends when summer begins! We have been active this year and our members deserve time off to revive and rejuvenate themselves. We look forward to September 2024 when we start up again with programs educating ourselves and the boarder community about equity issues not only for women and girls but all underrepresented people of Ashland.

Join us in the fall for our “Big Ideas” on September 3 at the Ashland Library and our first branch meeting on September 28 at the United Methodist Church.

RENEW NOW. Deadline is June 30.

To become an AAUW-Ashland branch member, go to our Join AAUW Ashland page.

“Big Ideas” Discussion Series
2024-2025 Calendar

AAUW/Ashland & Jackson County Library Services,
present monthly discussions, 4:00-5:30 p.m. at the Ashland Library

—September 3, 2024—
“Milestone, Mistake or Some of Both?
Update on Oregon’s revised drug law Measure 110.” 
Rep. Pam Marsh (left), 5th District, Oregon House of Representatives; and Kerri Hecox, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Oasis Center of the Rogue Valley.

—October 8, 2024—
“Freedom to Read: Book Banning & Other Challenges Facing Libraries.”
Kari May, Director, Jackson County Library Services; and Marie Felgentrager, School Library Media Specialist, Southern Oregon Education Service District, and Oregon Assn. of School Librarians Intellectual Freedom Committee.

—November 12, 2024—
“One Brick at a Time: Rebuilding the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.”
Tim Bond (left), OSF Artistic Director; and Amy Cuddy, OSF Board Member

—January 7, 2025—
“The Current State of Local/Regional Journalism”
• Heidi Wright, COO, EO Media Group (Rogue Valley Times and other publications)
• Bert Etling (left), Executive Editor, Ashland.news
• Erik Neumann, News Director, Jefferson Public Radio
• Patsy Smullin, President &Owner, KOBI-TV Channel 5

—February 4, 2025—
“The Teenage Brain: Impacts on Despair, Homelessness
& Substance Abuse.”
Mary Ferrell, Executive Director, Maslow Project; and Lacey Corbet (left), MA, Clinical Supervisor, Maslow Project

—March 4, 2025—
“Oregon Gun Laws Still Under Fire? An Update on Measure 114.”
Jackson County Sheriff, Nathan Sickler (left) and Ashland Police Chief Tighe O’Meara (right)

Member contact information is available on a password- protected page.
If you are not a member and wish to contact our Branch President, go the Contact Us page.
To become an AAUW-Ashland branch member, go to our Join AAUW Ashland page.