Build Experience as a Production Assistant for the ONE WILPF Call Team!
Published on September, 14 2021
By ONE WILPF Calls Team
October 2021
The monthly One WILPF national organizing calls have been giving WILPF members from across the country a chance to connect with one another and WILPF US for nearly six years. Now we’re looking for a volunteer or intern to join our team as a ‘production assistant’ to help with planning, promoting and posting the recordings. You don’t need broadcast experience, but it might be helpful.
The calls, coordinated by a small volunteer team, began as audio calls but moved to Zoom format this Spring. The calls offer opportunities for members to plan together and work on collaborative strategies across all of WILPF US, amplifying local work and connecting it to national and international issues.
The One WILPF Calls also have provided access to experts, authors and scholars on issues that are of interest to WILPFers. WILPF members get a chance to interact with and ask questions of folks like Medea Benjamin (Code Pink), Phyllis Bennis (Institute for Policy Studies), Charlotte Dennett (Middle East Oil Pipeline author, historian and journalist), Maurice Carney (Friends of the Congo), Osprey Orielle Lake WE CAN International), Margaret Flowers (Popular Resistance) and many other activist ‘celebrities’. As public calls they provide a way for WILPF to be outward-facing towards potential new members or just interested activist allies. They increase visibility for WILPF.
Duties would include helping the team plan a schedule of calls in advance, contacting potential guest speakers, helping edit scripts, contacting Issue Committees and branches for announcements and ideas for future calls, promoting them, and working with our Webmeister to post the calls smoothly and quickly on the WILPF Webpage.
Your organizing and scheduling talents would be appreciated, and you might eventually join our on-air team of announcers. This is a monthly commitment of between 5 and 10 hours. It would be a great opportunity for an intern who is interested in working in broadcast journalism, podcasting or production. Work remotely from anywhere!
Contact us if you, or someone you know would be interested. mbgardam@gmail.com The ONE WILPF Call Team is a fun group of women you’ll enjoy working with:
Anne Henny and Sandy Thacker of East Bay, CA
Nancy Price of Davis, CA
Zoom technology special assistant Ellen Thomas of Tryon, NC
Marybeth Gardam of Iowa City, IA
