Center for Women in Politics & Public Policy

A program of the Jane Nelson Institute for Women’s Leadership

The Center for Women in Politics & Public Policy seeks to increase the number of women in leadership positions in public service. Our goal is to become a destination for young women who desire to dedicate their professional careers to public service, advocacy and leadership.

Champion of women

Over the next few years, TWU plans to focus on educating women to pursue leadership positions through participation in civic organizations, non-profit board memberships and elected office.

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Chanel VanHook in her Navy military uniform on a foggy day with a Navy ship in the background.

A new way to serve

TWU to host free virtual seminar focused on health policy

TWU PhD Grad Chloe Fields hold a sign that says

TWU grad students prepare to become next generation of health advocates

TWU students Chanel VanHook and Fiama Villagrana-Ocasia

TWU students tapped for civics leadership forum

TWU students learn about women in health policy through PLEN seminar

TWU Regent Jill Jester shares her personal political story with students

Did you know?

The number of women in the U.S. Congress is at an all-time high at 24%, but women make up 51% of the U.S. adult population.
-Pew Research Center

47 of the 127 women serving in Congress in 2019 are women of color.
-Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), Rutgers University

86 of the 312 statewide elective executive offices across the U.S. are held by women.
-Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), Rutgers University

The woman suffrage movement

As part of TWU’s commemoration of the Texas ratification of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, Dr. Nancy Baker Jones, president of the Ruthe Winegarten Memorial Foundation for Texas Women’s History, spoke with Nancy Bocskor, former director of the CWPPP, about the woman suffrage movement.

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