Center for Women in Politics & Public Policy

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

Run. Lead. Succeed.

The Center for Women in Politics & Public Policy (CWPPP) works to increase the number of women in leadership positions in public service and assists young women who desire to dedicate their professional careers to public service, advocacy, and leadership.

We offer:

Educational programs
Leadership development opportunities
Training workshops

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TWU student is on a mission to shape domestic violence policy and legislation

TWU Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy offers new workshops

TWU Center for Women in Politics & Public Policy provides tuition for Texas women enrolled in UT campaign school

TWU presents talk on dance and the politics of Irish womanhood

TWU's Pioneer Woman wears a Women's Right to Vote Sash

TWU hosts Democracy in Action Day for local Girl Scouts

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

A new way to serve

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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