On episode 2, Lone Star Deep Dive, host Tonya Kleuskens and co-host Mark Nair, talk with Susybelle Gosslee about her experience as the League of Women Voters Texas State Hazardous Waste Chair, her founding of Our Friends Place, a home for girls with little or no personal support, and why she feels it is important for every citizen to vote.

Susybelle Gosslee is a member of the League of Women Voters of Dallas. She has served as President for three terms and been chair of numerous committees. She is currently chair of the LWVD Education Committee.

Susybelle was on the LWVTX board a number of years ago. She currently serves as issue chair for Hazardous Waste and Nuclear Waste and Capital Punishment Issue Chair for LWVTX.

Susybelle was part of the advocacy for the last 20 years to stop high-level radioactive waste coming to Texas. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in the fall of 2023 that no waste will be coming to and through Texas to Andrews County in West Texas to a temporary storage facility.

On this first-ever episode of the new podcast, Lone Star Deep Dive, host Tonya Kleuskens sits down with the current co-presidents of the Amarillo League of Women Voters to check in on what’s going on with the organization during an important election year. Michelle Hoggatt and Jenny Inzerillo discuss the upcoming primary, the importance of the Nonpartisan Voters Guides and Candidate Forums, and the League’s concerted efforts to “Get Out the Vote” in 2024. They also discuss some of the projects on which the League is working, including their new Civics 101 course, the 2024 Youth Voter Registration Project, and maternal morbidity & mortality interventions.