GREEN BAY, WI – The Wisconsin Women’s Council is holding their April 2024 Council meeting in Green Bay to host a panel and roundtable discussion on Friday, April 5. The meeting is open to the public and will take place from 1:00 to 3:00 pm at the ADRC of Brown County at 300 S. Adams Street, Room 138 (Board Room). The meeting will also be streamed online. The meeting will feature a panel of six women in leadership and roles in the trades, labor, and apprenticeship programs: Administrator of the Wisconsin Workforce Development’s (DWD) Division of Employment and Training Michele Carter, Deputy Director of the DWD Bureau of Apprenticeship Standards Liz Pusch, Executive Director of the Wisconsin Building Trades Council Emily Pritzkow, Apprenticeship Coordinator for Northeast Wisconsin Technical College Christina Jungwirth, IBEW Local 158 Electrician Marsha Nebel, and IAFF Local 141 Firefighter/Paramedic Kimberly Davister. Following the panel, moderated by Women’s Council Chair Denise Gaumer Hutchison, the Council will further engage the panelists in a roundtable discussion. Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich will provide a welcome and introductory remarks.
“The Women’s Council is excited to hear from these amazing women about their work in the trades, labor, and apprenticeship,” says Jenifer Cole, Women’s Council Executive Director. “The meeting is a great opportunity to lift up women working in non-traditional fields, and hopefully, inspiring more women to take on unique career paths in the trades.”
The panel will discuss the importance of attracting, engaging, and retaining women in the variety of trades, registered with unions, and enrolled in apprenticeship programs. The panel will also cover how the rates of women working in the trades has changed over the years and discuss challenges and successes women experience in these fields. The Council looks forward to the roundtable discussion about how to advance women working in the trades, labor, and apprenticeship programs.
The meeting is open to the public and no registration is required. For those wanting to tune in online, the meeting will be streamed via MS Teams.
