The Madison Branch of Women’s International League of Peace and Freedom invites you to join our quarterly breakfast series! Each breakfast is a place for women activists and activists of any gender identity to come together, connect, converse, and engage with a topic affecting the peace and freedom of our world. Usually, a featured speaker(s) presents her passion and work and leads a discussion about how we as a community can take action
and contribute to solutions.
Stay Tuned For News of Our Next Breakfast
(Hoping for Late Autumn)
After a 2 and a half year COVID hiatus, we held two in-person breakfasts this summer at Burrows Park!
On August 10, 2022 Aurielle Smith addressed: Local Efforts to End Gun ViolenceOver the past 8 year, Aurielle has specialized in Violence, Injury Prevention, and Public Health Emergency Response and Preparedness including within the Wisconsin Department of Health Service and the UW Hospitals. She is currently Director or Policy, Planning and Evaluation for Public Health Madison and Dane county. In this role, she is working to provide a safe and healthy community in which Madison andDane County residents can thrive.
On June 15, 2022
Erika Rosales addressed: Immigration Rights - DACA Support
Erika is the director of the new UW Center for Dreamers. She says, "We understand the impact we can have just by supporting one DACA recipient. If just one student renews their DACA through our legal clinics, they can continue to use their driver’s license, they can continue to work with their employment authorization....this person could be a single mother working in health care and wanting to go back to school, a graduate student of counseling psychology ready to graduate and support her Spanish-speaking immigrant community, or a factory worker wanting to get an associate’s degree in business management. These are examples, but they are also real stories of people in our community; a story of one and many at the same time,”