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Meaningful Mentoring for Afghan Women Evacuees with Tressa Lacy founder of Undaunted Women

Saturday, October 15, 2022
10:00AM - 12:00PM

Online: Free on Zoom. Reservations Required

You’re invited to learn about this fascinating process and how it meshes with Lacy’s own unusual story.

Undaunted Women works in Seattle to find every newly arriving evacuee woman a mentor. They collaborate with community members and organizations to help evacuees reach their self-reliance goals. In doing so, they bridge differences to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion; and create meaningful mentorship that benefits volunteers as much as those they mentor.

As an AAUW Fellow, Tressa is a mentor, accountant, educator, presenter, and champion for change around the issues of gender, diversity, education, mentorship, and sustainability. Tressa brings with her a unique personal story of overcoming child labor and catastrophic logging injuries through education and mentorship.

She recently completed a book about her life, “None So Blind: Memoir of a Lumberjack Child” which focuses on the profound effect mentors have had in removing her blindfolds. She says: “The writing was the easy part. Learning to accept the reality of my story and begin the arduous journey of untangling identity from past, faith, and family is my most challenging endeavor yet.”