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Women's Equality Day 2025

Thursday, August 21, 2025

Sweet Heart Winery

5:00 pm --7:30 pm
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The road to voter rights for all citizens has been a long one. It continues with twists and turns, bringing new opportunities and obstacles. We continue together, letting our different perspectives, experiences, and skills guide and strengthen our journey. Forward we go!  



Keynote Address
Our 2025 Women's Equality Day celebration welcomes

Kelly Evans, Executive Director, Neighbor to Neighbor

 

Kelly joined Neighbor to Neighbor (N2N) in 2012. She has 25 years of nonprofit leadership experience, including nearly 20 years as an Executive Director. Under Kelly’s leadership, N2N has earned Neighborworks American’s highest national rating of Exemplary, the Better Business Bureau’s Nonprofit of the Year, and scaled distribution of N2N’s emergency eviction prevention assistance by over 1000% during the pandemic, preventing over 11,000 evictions. Kelly is a community advocate for housing access and economic opportunity. She believes in the power of a diverse community. Kelly is a graduate of the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare and Harvard University’s Achieving Excellence Program.

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2025 Honorees

Kristin Stephens

Kristin Stephens, Larimer County Commissioner, will be honored for her work in promoting voting rights serving as past Chair of the Fort Collins Election Code Committee adding transparency to the election code and educating citizens on how to participate in local government. She finds creative solutions to problems which often reveal her support of women. Kristin participates in local community organizations that seek to enhance women’s status, opportunities and healthcare. She has committed her career to public service. Considering that she is the sole female representative on the Poudre Fire Authority Board, one can definitely say, “This girl is on fire!”
Anne Thompson

Anne Thompson will be recognized with the League Legacy honors. Always non-partisan, Anne personifies service that is central to the core of the League’s mission. After her tenure as President of the LWV-LC, she currently spreads the word on voting information and public policy issues by managing VOTE411. She serves as moderator for candidate forums, written guidelines and a sample script for these events, and mentors new moderators. She also works to improve gun control in Colorado. Anne’s legacy is one to emulate!


Past Honorees

WED Honors
2018 Julie Field
2023 Caitlin Wyrick 
2023 Julie Pignataro
2024 Joy Sullivan
2024 Gretchen Haley

League Legacy

2013 Linda Mahan
2015 Sue Ferguson
2018 Linda Thomas
2023 Barbara Hansen
2024 Beth DeHaven

Thank you to our sponsors!

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League of Women Voters -- Larimer County Board Members


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James Sawyer


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Linda Castleman

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Jane Everham



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The History of Women's Equality Day

The First Women's Equality Day

Women's Equality Day 2024


In 1971, Representative Bella Abzug (D-NY) successfully introduced a bill designating August 26th of each year as Women’s Equality Day.


The bill states that Women’s Equality Day is a symbol of women’s continued fight for equal rights and that the United States commends and supports them. It decreed that the President is authorized and requested to issue a proclamation annually in commemoration of woman suffrage and the 1970 Strike for Equality.






Pictured: Pat Schroeder. She represented Colorado's first congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1997.


Slideshow
WED 2024

Larimer County

2025 Women's Equality Day Proclamations

 

Loveland-August 19 at 6pm

Windsor - August 25 at 7pm

Fort Collins - August 19 at 5pm

Larimer County Commissioners - August 19 at 9am

Timnath - August 12 at 6pm

Berthoud - August 12 at 6:30pm
Wellington - Pending