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Everything Cecile Richards Knows, She Learned From Other Women

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March 8 is International Women’s Day. To celebrate, we asked women like , Cecile Richards, , and more to reflect on how other women have lifted them up—mentored them, advised them, represented them, and above all showed them what was possible.

We’ll be sharing their stories here all week.After I graduated from college, I wanted to be a union organizer. And the first real job I had on the ground was in New Orleans, organizing with hotel workers.

These women were making minimum wage, living in housing projects. They were often single moms or responsible for taking care of other relatives.

Their jobs were physically very hard, but also emotionally very hard—working in the hospitality industry in a city like New Orleans is not that easy.

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