✊This week Carrie and Sky are joined by Ohio State Representative Lisa Sobecki who is a BADASS! Listen to how she stood up to the Heartbeat Bill. A true hero.

✊This week Carrie and Sky are joined by Lori Olender who is running for Lucas County Common Pleas Court.

This week Carrie and Sky are joined by Erin Scott from the Ohio Women’s Alliance. They discuss the work of the Ohio Women’s Alliance, super cool phone and text banks to get involved in, and Erin’s viral blog post about how to NOT be a Karen.

About our Guest:

Whether it’s connecting nonprofit organizations to funding or badass women to each other, Erin Scott loves bringing the right people to the table and watching the sparks fly. Previously, Erin has worked to build a more just and vibrant Ohio through consulting and working with the Ohio Progressive Collaborative, LEAD Ohio, the Ohio Democratic Party, and The Columbus Foundation in the community research and grants management department. Erin teaches in the undergraduate and graduate programs for the nonprofit studies program at her alma mater, The Ohio State University’s John Glenn School of Public Affairs, where she earned her Master of Public Administration degree.

Join the collaborative and read Erin’s blog post at ohiowomensalliance.org

Follow Ohio Women’s Alliance on instagram at @ohiowomenaf and on Twitter at @OHwomenAF

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This week Carrie and Sky are joined by Kim McCarthy who is running for Ohio State Representative for District 73.

About our Guest:

It was after the 2016 election, when Kim saw the local county electoral ballot devoid of any meaningful choices, what with many of the elected seats going uncontested, that she began to focus more attention to things closer to home. Kim started attending the county commission meetings, and by using her accounting background to examine the state budget, began to understand the full scope of influence the state has over the actual material conditions experienced at the county and city levels. She also discovered that the current State Representative was not meaningfully advocating for the needs of the county he was supposedly representing in the Statehouse, and that many of the local officials were feeling very frustrated over that. She decided that Greene County deserved better, and vowed then to fight for better representation for the people who lived there.

Kim is an accountant, and has been a long time business owner and entrepreneur. She is the proud mother of three children, and lives with them and their dog Boomer and cat Flipper, along with a hen house full of chickens and ducks, on Boomerang Farm in Sugarcreek Twp. Kim immigrated to Ohio from Brisbane, Australia back in 1994 and believes that Americans deserve the same basic quality of human rights and dignity that she grew up with there decades ago. She believes in a society that is based on justice, respect and empathy for one another, and for the environment in which we live and depend upon.

Find out more about Kim McCarthy at www.kimmccarthyoh.com

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This week Carrie and Sky are joined by Nancy Larson who is running for Ohio State Representative for District 47.

About our Guest:

Nancy Larson is running for Ohio State Representative District 47. After spending the last 40 years as a licensed social worker, she retired to pursue her next passion. That mission is to represent her community in Ohio's 47th House District. She has been a lifelong fighter for the dignity and rights of her clients and the community at large. Working with organizations such as the Single Payer Action Network (SPAN), the League of Women Voters (LWV), Advocates for a Clean Lake Erie (ACLE), and the Community Solidarity Response Network (CSRN), she has learned some of what needs to be done in Columbus to improve life for those in her District.

Nancy has worked consistently since she was 17 years old in a variety of jobs and understands the struggles inherent in working for a living and supporting a family. She believes in worker’s rights and in an economic structure that does not allow companies to chew people up and spit them out for excessive profits. She took part in a vote to unionize while working at a CMHC (Community Mental Health Center) and saw firsthand the benefits that come to workers who are unionized. It was a pivotal point in her understanding, and she has been committed to the right to collective bargaining and equal pay for all ever since.

Find out more about Nancy Larson at www.Nancyfor.us

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