Upcoming April 2025 General Meeting
There is a crisis in Leadership today! We need new leaders who have the ability to rally people to work together and create a world that works for all.
Our speaker, Dr. Vicki Halsey, is currently the VP of Applied Leaning with the Ken Blanchard Companies. Vicki travels the country as an inspirational speaker, trainer, author, and instructional designer. Her unique blend of energy, intellect, and passion engages people’s hearts and minds, and motivates them to unleash their greatness.
Please join us on Wednesday ,
April 9, 2025 from 6:30 – 8:30 pm.
The meeting is open to the public and will be held at the RB Eastview Community Center; 17520 Drayton Hall Way, San Diego, CA 92128. If you plan to attend, please RSVP to: aauwboard@gmail.com.
The new 2025 Re-entry Scholarship Applications have been added. Please go to their site tab above to download it.
Announcing our 25th Annual Cover to Cover Authors’ Luncheon!
Luncheon will be held Saturday, May 17th from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm at the Bernardo Heights Golf Club in Rancho Bernardo. Reservations are required. Reservation deadline is Wednesday, May 7th. Please review the C2C site tab above to learn more.
A new film about Lilly Ledbetter viewed
On Monday, March 24, our branch hosted a screening of the new film, “Lilly,” at the Rancho Bernardo library. Over 100 people attended the film, which is based on the life of pay equity activist, Lilly Ledbetter. We also enjoyed Q&A afterward with one of the movie’s producers.
Ledbetter worked at Goodyear Tires and was paid less than her male counterparts for decades. She sued, won and then lost when the company appealed. She lost at the Supreme Court, but finally got Congress to approve pay equity legislation that was signed by President Barack Obama and was named after her.
She never stopped fighting, even though corporate America put many obstacles in her way.
The film, starring award-winning actress Patricia Clarkson, will be shown soon in select theaters across America.
We ask for your patience, please …
AAUW National recently did a major update to our website’s background theme. Take a few minutes to look around and let us know if you have any suggestions on how you think the site might be streamlined and improved. And please bear with us while we learn, test, review, and implement the different changes.
Member Interest Groups
Happy Healthy Hikers on the bridge walk near Balboa Park
Happy Healthy Hiker’s will hike … Join Travel Group for lunch at … on …. Bring a friend and sample wine with Grape Expectations at … on …. Or join one of our Book Clubs to discuss … this month.
Great Decisions, is a world affairs policy discussion group assisted by reading material from the Foreign Policy Association, this month they will discuss …
We welcome potential members who would like to participate and visit a few of these activities. Please contact us if you are interested. You may reach us via email at aauwboard@gmail.com.
MEMBERSHIP MATTERS – Contact us to get involved!
“Our mission is to advance equity of women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy, and research”
Chartered in 1971, our branch has over 100 members residing in the Poway, Penasquitos and Inland North County communities.
Need to renew your membership? Most memberships expire each year on June 30. You have until then to go to the AAUW website to renew by credit card. Currently the membership dues are $115: $72 for National; $20 for CA; and $23 for our affiliate.
The first step is to log into the AAUW website. You may be asked to reset your password so you’ll have to enter your email address, then request to reset your password, which will be sent through your email account. Once you log in with your new password (remember to write it down and keep it for future use), click membership, and then renew national membership. Locating our affiliate is a bit tricky because they are listed by state, so look for the code CA0159 for Poway-Penasquitos. Once you check the branch, make sure you scroll down to the bottom and click submit. From there it will prompt you to the state, choose CA again, and scroll down to the bottom to submit. Then the process will take you to the payment page where you will enter your credit card info. Bingo, you are renewed for another year!
If you run into any problems, let us know. If you can’t pay on-line, you can send a check to our affiliate’s treasurer. Thank you to those that have already renewed!
Anyone interested to Join Us , please follow the link or contact us at aauwboard@gmail.com. We are happy to invite you to join us at a few meetings and/or activities so you may see why you should Join Us.
Updated: Feb 26, 2025.