​Advocacy Committee

The Advocacy Committee mission is to understand and advocate state level legislature affecting women engineers and STEM Students.​

Understand

• Baseline Illinois Senate and Congress Position
• Review Illinois Legislation being proposed or voted on

Act

• Create talking points for targeting Illinois communications - either virtual or in person
  • Similar to SWE Congressional virtual visits
• Reach out to local representatives and other interested parties

Communicate

• Set up regular cadence for communication to SWE-CI
• Deep dive on a specific topic

Candidate Forums are a great way to ask questions of potential leaders of Illinois: See what events are coming up by clicking here.

​Learn about the advantages of SWE from an interview with Past SWE-CI President Jada Hoerr!