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.

The First Women's Equality Day

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.