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First Annual Lobby Day a Great Success
 On Tuesday, January 24, eight representatives from California Affiliates of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation met with key state legislators to talk about the importance of breast health and encourage them to support programs that provide breast cancer education, screening, and treatment access to their constituents.
Pictured left to right: Mary Pare (Sac), Liz Wallerstein (SFBAA), Maria Sousa (SFBAA), Cyntihia Chambers (LA), Ranjit Dhaliwal (Sac), Eleanor Beasley (LA), Connie Norton (SFBAA)
The day began with a training session led by Katie McKensie, who provided talking points about the California Breast Cancer Research Program, and Donna Brownsey from Sacramento Advocates, who gave participants tips on successful lobbying. The session even included a practice meeting with role play. After training the new Komen lobbyists went to work, meeting with legislators from their respective service areas until 5pm. After a long day of meetings, lobbyists headed over to the Sacramento Valley Affiliate's Paint the Town Pink Event.
 Three out of the seven California affiliates were able to send representatives to the event. Maria Sousa, Connie Norton, and Liz Wallerstein came from the San Francisco Bay Area Affiliate. Eleanor Beasley and Cynthia Chambers represented the Los Angeles Affiliate. The Sacramento Valley Affiliate was represented by volunteers Mary Pere and Gerry Paris. The affiliate's Public Policy Coordinator, Ranjit Dhaliwal ran "base camp" for the day.
The event brought to fruition several months of planning, and organizers are pleased with the results. Lobbyists were granted 21 of the 25 meetings they had aimed for. The meetings provided initial contact with the legislators, and over the next few months lobbyists will follow up with the people they met with, extending the relationships into the future.
Thank you to all who participated in our first California Lobby Day. For information on how you can help with next year's event, please email us at info@sackomen.org or visit the Advocacy section of our web site.
Lobbyists: Liz Wallerstein (SFBAA) and Gerry Paris (Sac)
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About Komen:
Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan G. Komen, she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever. In 1982, that promise became Susan G. Komen for the Cure and launched the global breast cancer movement. Today, Komen for the Cure is the world's largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists fighting to save lives, empower people, ensure quality care for all and energize science to find the cures. Thanks to events like the Komen Race for the Cure, we have invested nearly $1 billion to fulfill our promise, becoming the largest source of nonprofit funds dedicated to the fight against breast cancer in the world. For more information about Susan G. Komen for the Cure, breast health or breast cancer, visit www.komen.org or call 1-877 GO KOMEN.
About the Affiliate:
Led by more than 100,000 survivors and activists, Komen is the world' largest and most progressive grassroots network fighting to end breast cancer forever. We are local activists in 124 cities and communities, mobilizing more than one million friends and neighbors every year through events like the Komen Race for the Cure Series, the world's largest and most successful awareness and fundraising event for breast cancer. We are advocates at the local, state and federal level, fighting for the screening and treatment programs that save lives and the research that brings us closer to the cure.
Sacramento Valley Affiliate
Susan G. Komen for the Cure Sacramento Affiliate
Mailing address:
2443 Fair Oaks Blvd, #223
Sacramento, CA 95825
Physical address:
4970 Windplay Drive, Ste. 3
El Dorado Hills, CA 95672
Phone: 916.492.6474
Fax: 916.941.7896
E-mail:
info@komensacramento.org
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