Agenda

Friday, September 9, 2022

2:00 – 3:30 p.m.

Pre-Registration

3:30 – 4:00 p.m.

Welcome

4:00 – 4:20 p.m.

Opening Speaker

Hon. Gina Hinojosa, Texas State Rep., District 49

4:20 – 4:45 p.m.

Welcome/Keynote Speaker

Cheryl Eliano , District 10 National Vice President of the American Federation of Government Employees

4:45 – 5:45 p.m.

Panel: The Power of Mentoring

Moderator: Becky Moeller, Former Texas AFL-CIO President,

CWA

Panelists: Dr. Rebecca Palacios,Senior Curriculum Advisor,

ABCMouse.com

Rebecca Young, Director & Instructor, Lone Star

Construction Trades Training, IBEW

Andrea Delagarza, President, South Texas

Building Trades

5:45 – 6:00 pm

Closing

6:00 - 8:00pm

Solidarity Hour- Hors d’oeuvres and Beverages Provided

Saturday, September 10, 2022

8:00 – 9:00 a.m.

Registration and Breakfast (provided)

9:00 – 9:30 a.m.

Welcome & Ice Breaker

9:30 - 9:40 a.m

Group Photo

9:40 – 10:10 a.m.

Keynote Speaker

Linda Chavez-Thompson, Executive Vice President Emerita

10:10 – 10:25 a.m.

Break

10:25 – 11:35 a.m.

Panel - Reproductive Rights are Workers Rights

Moderator: Traci Dunlap, Education Austin

Panelists: Dyana Limon-Mercado, Planned Parenthood

Rep. Donna Howard, Women’s Health Caucus

Kara Sheehan, Local Progress

11:40 – 12:30 p.m

Working Lunch (Lunch will be provided)

12:15 - 12:30 p.m.

Lunch Speaker

Hon. Sarah Eckhardt, Texas State Senate, Dist. 14

12:30 – 1:30 p.m

Breakout Sessions:

Union Women Running for Office

Moderator: Angi DeFelippo, Co Chair Womens’

Committee

Panelists: Councilwoman Cheryl Lee, Bastrop City Council

Leticia Marcum, El Paso Building Trades

Valaree Villanueva-Ramirez, IAM 2340 & IAM District 776

Latina Labor Leaders: Women Ahead of Their Time - Yvonne Cortez Flores, AFSCME 1624

Negotiations

Tanya Tarr, Cultivated Insights

Parliamentarian

Martha Owen, Deats Durst & Owen PLLC

1:30 – 1:40 p.m.

Break

1:40 – 2:40 p.m.