Women's Leadership Series: Analyzing Power
Thursday, March 5, 2026
6pm - 7pm
Location
Howe Library, 13 South Street, Hanover, NH
Price
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Women's Leadership Series: Analyzing Power
Overview
This workshop is the first in our series Your Passion, Your Leadership: A Workshop Series for Aspiring Women Advocates and will introduce participants to tools like power analyses and power mapping, helping leaders identify who holds influence in their respective communities, where gaps in representation exist, and how to strategically shift power in the direction of equity. Participants will learn how to identify where decisions about schools, healthcare, and local services are being made—and how best to influence them.
Your presenter will be Carin Schiewe.
Carin Schiewe Bringing 41 years of experience as an organizer, campaigner and executive director, Carin currently works in consulting roles as a strategic planner, trainer, facilitator and coach with a range of local, state and national organizations and foundations. A strategist and trainer in the state courts arena since 2015, one of her current priorities is to help build movement capacity to strengthen judicial integrity and leverage the power of the state courts to defend and expand critical rights that are under attack.
Over the course of her career, Carin has been a canvasser and community organizer at the local level, a lead organizer and trainer with the state abortion rights action league, the founding executive director of a statewide community/labor electoral coalition, a program consultant and strategist working with a range progressive foundations; a field manager with a regional movement and capacity building center, and most recently, served for nine years as the Principal of Democracy and Program Strategist at re:power, formerly Wellstone Action.
Your Passion, Your Leadership: A Workshop Series for Aspiring Women Advocates: In partnership with the League of Women Voters of New Hampshire, MomsRising, and other women-centered community organizations, this six-part workshop series will empower women in the Upper Valley to step into their power as leaders and advocates. Using the disproportionate impacts of HB 1569 on women’s right to vote as a central case study, the series will provide participants with the tools, skills, and confidence necessary to engage in effective advocacy. From understanding how power operates on a day-to-day basis in our communities, to mastering communications and social media, to managing volunteers and sharing success stories, each session is designed to strengthen women’s voices and build a more representative democracy.
Your presenter will be Carin Schiewe.
Carin Schiewe Bringing 41 years of experience as an organizer, campaigner and executive director, Carin currently works in consulting roles as a strategic planner, trainer, facilitator and coach with a range of local, state and national organizations and foundations. A strategist and trainer in the state courts arena since 2015, one of her current priorities is to help build movement capacity to strengthen judicial integrity and leverage the power of the state courts to defend and expand critical rights that are under attack.
Over the course of her career, Carin has been a canvasser and community organizer at the local level, a lead organizer and trainer with the state abortion rights action league, the founding executive director of a statewide community/labor electoral coalition, a program consultant and strategist working with a range progressive foundations; a field manager with a regional movement and capacity building center, and most recently, served for nine years as the Principal of Democracy and Program Strategist at re:power, formerly Wellstone Action.
Your Passion, Your Leadership: A Workshop Series for Aspiring Women Advocates: In partnership with the League of Women Voters of New Hampshire, MomsRising, and other women-centered community organizations, this six-part workshop series will empower women in the Upper Valley to step into their power as leaders and advocates. Using the disproportionate impacts of HB 1569 on women’s right to vote as a central case study, the series will provide participants with the tools, skills, and confidence necessary to engage in effective advocacy. From understanding how power operates on a day-to-day basis in our communities, to mastering communications and social media, to managing volunteers and sharing success stories, each session is designed to strengthen women’s voices and build a more representative democracy.