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21. Lisa Stone

(Web Page; Mon Nov 20 15:17:00 EST 2006)

Description: "I know our founders hoped there would be less need for the [Northwest Women's]Law Center's advocacy in 1998 than there was in 1978. Well, we know that's not true. It's especially not true in Washington State right now, as we fight to retain affirmative action. This battle is crucial to women and to women's rights supporters—women and men who believe in equality and justice.

22. Barbara Earl Thomas

(Web Page; Mon Nov 20 15:17:00 EST 2006)

Description: "It was 1978 when I first started at the Seattle Arts Commission. I can still see the headline of the local arts magazine—Selected—Barbara Thomas, a woman and black in a Woman's Enclave. I remember being stunned. Yeah, I'm a woman, and a black—OK, I guess for some people this is news?

23. Cynthia Hartwig

(Web Page; Mon Nov 20 15:17:00 EST 2006)

Description: "My small business was almost completely homogenous. It didn't occur to me that something was missing in my work force until I. started working on city and state government contracts where all colors of the rainbow work together. It was there I noticed a richness of colors and points of view where people like Barbara were not so much colored but colorful -- colorful in the way they looked at things.

24. Carolyn Viebrock

(Web Page; Mon Nov 20 15:17:00 EST 2006)

Description: "Our Foundation scholarship program for women, for example, is truly an affirmative action success story! We know that women continue to face economic inequities in all phases of their lives from unequal pay to the glass ceiling to retirement security. These are some of the reasons why we actively support our scholarship program that is specifically focused on women.

25. Anne Wetmore

(Web Page; Mon Nov 20 15:17:00 EST 2006)

Description: "I worked as a Teamster truck driver. But I wouldn't have had the chance if affirmative action hadn't been there.

26. Gloria T. Johnson

(Web Page; Mon Nov 20 15:17:00 EST 2006)

Description: "In the spirit of affirmative action, the AFL-CIO opened a seat on its executive council to the president of the Coalition of Labor Union Women, a position I have been elected to since 1993.

27. Susan Eisenberg

(Web Page; Mon Nov 20 15:17:00 EST 2006)

Description: "As 'character-building' as it was to be 'pioneers of the industry,' the resistance to accepting women as equal partners has taken a physical and emotional toll that is not at all glamorous. . . . Tradeswomen with years of experience still struggle for respect. The informal hiring networks all tradeworkers depend on in a fluctuating industry are less available to women.

28. Linda Spoolstra

(Web Page; Mon Nov 20 15:17:00 EST 2006)

Description: "I was elected to an important position on the national staff of my denomination, American Baptist Churches, USA. Leaders in the denomination, with the support of affirmative action policies... I was interviewed, nominated, and then elected. Some were skeptical that a "woman pastor" from a small church could do the job. Adding women to the council was one of the strategies used in the eighties to provide a more inclusive leadership for the Church. Without affirmative action policies, I would never have had the opportunity to serve in that position.

29. Alma Morales

(Web Page; Mon Nov 20 15:17:00 EST 2006)

Description: "I was my high school's class valedictorian and was offered many Texas State university scholarships yet I could not even get a decent part-time job to pay for my books because I was not the right color skin, accent or last name. It was no surprise that I marched in the 60's, protested in the 70's and then in 1980 was hired as a consultant to write the first affirmative action Plan and Federal Equal Opportunity Recruitment Plan for the Offices of the Secretary of Defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff, Department of Defense.

30. Elsa Lai Fan

(Web Page; Mon Nov 20 15:17:00 EST 2006)

Description: "Fortunately, at the time you began your school and government work California was a state which supported widening opportunities for women. As part of the Upward Mobility program, you were able to benefit from education training that prepared you for your professional career as an economist. This important program, through education, enabled you to hone your computer and database skills.