Running and Winning is a non-partisan workshop for high school junior and senior girls that is coordinated and presented by the League of Women Voters of Greater Tucson with AAUW Tucson and the YWCA of Southern Arizona as co-sponsors. This will be the 17th year AAUW Tucson is a co-sponsor.
The workshop mission is to encourage the participants to consider running for elected office. In addition, to discover leadership capabilities in themselves by exposing the high school students to women elected officials and women currently running for office from Arizona. Elected officials that attend the workshop include state and local legistators, judges, city/town officers, and others.
The next Running & Winning event will be this year in September at Pueblo High School home of the Warriors at 3500 S. 12th Ave in Tucson.
If you would like to volunteer to prepare materials for the 2024 workshop, make a monetary donation, or attend and assist with event activities, contact Jane Russ, AAUW Tucson VP-Treasurer, for more information.
2023 September 7 | Santa Rita High School Running and Winning
Thursday, September 7, 2023 was the all-day Running & Winning event at Santa Rita High School.
With 65 junior and senior high school girls and over twenty state and local elected women officals, the event was a positive learning and inspiring event for everyone.
Since the 2004 inception of Running and Winning, over 2,000 high school girls in the greater Tucson area have attended a workshop. This educational, interactive leadership forum has been held annually throughout the Tucson metro area:
- 2023 Santa Rita High School
- 2022 Empire High School
- 2012 & 2014 Flowing Wells High School
- 2018 Desert View High School
- 2017 Sunnyside & 2004 High School
- 2016 Sahuarita High School
- 2015 Sahuaro High School
- 2013 Tucson High School
- 2012 Mountain View High School
- 2011 & 2010 Cienega High School
- 2009 Canyon del Oro High School
- 2008 Rincon/University High School
- 2007 Cholla High School
- 2006 & 2005 Catalina Magnet High School
Shout-out to AAUW Tucson member, Nancy Woodling, for her years of dedication to Running and Winning. Nancy was instrumental making this annual workshop an ongoing success. Thank you, Nancy.
Learn more about Running and Winning from the League of Women Voters of Greater Tucson, click HERE.