South Sound • Entered by Mary Taylor Goforth on June 14, 2022
Relational meetings w/Broads and friends of Broads
May 30, 2022 – June 30, 2022
Participants and Hours
| Pre Planning hours | 2 |
| Post Admin hours | 2 |
| Activity Hours | 12 |
| Participants | 4 |
| Total Hours | 52 |
Key Issue: Multiple apply
Activity Type: Broadband Meeting (prep, implementation & follow up)
Key Partners: Sound broads and their friends/contacts
Short Description of Activity
To understand and connect with my current Sound Broads and to investigate Olympia for its possible future Broad issues and partners, I have met one-on-one with a number of women: Suzanne Fell (current new Member), Laura Schleyer (current old Member), Elizabeth Roderick (Audubon board member interested in doing more work with BIPOC community) Charlotte Persons (CoFounder of Local Good Governance Coalition and League of Women Voters), Annie Cubberly (former BB leader and current lead on South Broad Book Club) and Laura Fertig (new Broad member and staff for Western Watersheds Project).
Reflection/Evaluation
Each meeting gave me a new insight into “who” the Broads are and what we might do to come together in a purposeful way. There remains a wide disparateness in interests and abilities. However, I feel as if the ground is being laid for some kind of coalescence. I have ideas and contacts to pursue three main avenues of thought and activity:
1) Recruitment or Social Justice/Equity meeting with local author (and Broad member!), Lynn de Danaan. whose book, Katie Gale, highlights our area’s deep roots in tribal communities and their “assimilation.”
2) I – or other Broads–could become an associate member/Broad representative to the Local Good Governance Coalition whose main activity is to observe and record the workings of local jurisdictions and be able to recruit large numbers of people to weigh in on important and timely decision-making (conservation/social justice and issues leading to right use of resources, e.g. homelessness)
3) With Western Watershed Project, their partners and others, begin a WA campaign for restoration of grazing land and possible reintroduction of beavers.