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WATER Essay Contest 2024
Winners of the WATER Essay Contest 2024 Announced
WATER delights in announcing the winners of the second
WATER Essay Contest in the Style of Rosemary Ganley,
“Feminists Change the World 650 Words at a Time.”
The winners (in alphabetical order) are:
Jim Ganley*, “Your Cause, Your Joy, Your Team” (*Apple did not fall far from tree.)
M Jade Kaiser, “In Whom We Find Shelter: Choosing Communities of Care over Cultures of Surveillance”
Catherine Ann Lombard, “Hoe to Harvest: Connecting Soil, Soul and Society”
Their essays may be found on the WATER website https://www.waterwomensalliance.org/water-essay-contest/
They each receive a prize of $650 for their articles.
This second year of the contest proved to be very compelling. Topics were timely, writing was crisp, and the messages were conveyed well. Read and see! It is good that this style of accessible writing catching on for a broad audience.
WATER remains grateful to the generous donor who funded this project. We are in awe of and thank Rosemary Ganley whose tireless collaboration and boundless wisdom inspire us. Thanks to all who submitted essays. Your work matters and helps to transform the world.
Watch for details on the 2025 contest upcoming from WATER.
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WATER welcomes students from seminaries, universities, colleges, volunteer programs, and more to work in the WATER Office.
Interns engage in the full range of activities at WATER, from office work to program planning. They learn how a small non-profit is run and what it takes to nurture an Alliance. Interns wishing to do their own research will have a chance to utilize WATER’s constantly growing Resource Center as well as consult with our experienced staff through periodic in-house seminars.
Interns must commit to a minimum of six weeks and can stay for as long as a year. Internships are unpaid. All participants are encouraged to apply for academic credit from their home institutions for their work at WATER. WATER is delighted to work with volunteer programs which sponsor volunteers with expenses shared by the on-site placement, in this case WATER.
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Land Acknowledgement
WATER, located in Silver Spring, Maryland, acknowledges that it sits on the traditional and contemporary homeland of the Piscataway and Nacotchtank (sometimes known as the Anacostan) people, the original stewards of this land.
We are committed to lifting up the names of these lands and the community members from these nations who reside alongside us and who were here long before we were. We affirm WATER’s intention to promote healing, respect, and love for all people through our work, with special indebtedness to Native people whose lands we are privileged to share.