In their last weeks’ newsletter, the South Dakota Republican Party announced 2 upcoming trainings from the Leadership Institute to identify, train and mentor conservative women who want to learn leadership skills, or are considering running for public office:
Are you a Republican woman who has an interest in campaigns or in running for office in your community at some point in the future? The SDGOP is here to develop future leaders, whether you want to run for School Board or be the next Governor Kristi Noem!
Coming up in 2 weeks and hosted by the South Dakota Republican Party, The Women Leaders Series (WLS) is a forum designed to identify, train, mentor, and connect conservative women who are: already community leaders; want to learn leadership skills; or running for public office; or considering running for public office.
We will learn from experts:
- How to develop a Winning Message
- Keys to effective Fundraising
- Expanding your reach on Social Media.
Two opportunities will be available for women across South Dakota to attend. The first event will be held on Friday, March 17th at the Alex Johnson Hotel in Rapid City from 9:00 AM to Noon. The second in the series will be held on Saturday, March 18th at the South Dakota Military Heritage Alliance building at 1600 W. Russell St. in Sioux Falls. (9-Noon) There will be a $10 fee for each. Pre-registration is encouraged
Classes will be taught by Emily Kertz Lampkin, a seasoned campaign professional and public affairs specialist focusing on strategic communications and issue management. With more than 15 years of experience providing strategic guidance to executives at the highest levels of government and private industry, Lampkin brings a wealth of experience in issue advocacy, grassroots and national politics, project management and communications.
Pre-registration links are available on the party’s Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/SDGOP
I’d encourage anyone interested to click on the appropriate link (Rapid City or Sioux Falls), and sign up. Leadership Institute does a nice overview of what it takes to run, and provides a background if you’re thinking of being involved in a campaign.
You want female conservative leaders? It’s not hard to find them. Ashley Gustafson, Genevieve Westerman, Sydney Powers, Madison Bollweg, and Claire Rydberg will all be strong leaders for the GOP in the coming years.
Certainly appear to be lovely young women, although under-experienced. But, can we not find lovely young women with advanced degrees related to Economics, Business, International affairs that actually advance the state. Some degrees, & especially Political Science, are as useful to society as a degree in Philosophy.
Hey now! Philosophy is one of the pillars of Western Civilization, using logic to steer toward objective truth. Agree on poli sci, though. Politics is fascinating and useful, but hardly scientific.
i’d love to see a huge class of new conservatives with political science backgrounds. we’d see them creating new impressive forms of applied conservatism and getting them enacted, instead of gathering in little echo chambers to blame others for their own lack of ability and skill.
of course the echo chambers would call these capable conservatives rinos too.
Yes they are young, but you wouldn’t believe the experiences they have all had. Some of them have multiple businesses and others are working to become lawyers. We all have to start somewhere. So as they are continuing to build their resumes, you can just sit back and watch. One day they’ll be in those positions and you can eat your words. And to your comment about political science degrees, not one of those women is that their only degree. In fact, some of them are graduating with economics, business, and international affairs degrees.