{"id":11235,"date":"2020-01-06T14:02:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T22:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/?p=11235"},"modified":"2026-04-20T09:50:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:50:01","slug":"participate-in-lobby-day-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/2020\/01\/participate-in-lobby-day-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Participate in Lobby Day &#8211; 2\/7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>You&#8217;re invited to our annual Lobby Day for Health Equity!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What is Lobby Day?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every year on President&#8217;s Day (February 17, 2020), Health Equity Circle brings 50+ students (from schools of public health, nursing, medicine, law, social work, and more) to Olympia to voice support for or against the passage of specific bills that are critical to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rwjf.org\/en\/library\/features\/achieving-health-equity.html\">health equity<\/a>\u00a0in Washington State.<\/p>\n<p>During Lobby Day, small teams will meet with individual policymakers to tell their stories and influence votes.\u00a0 Lobby Day a chance to advance policy around social justice issues as well as a great opportunity to gain lobbying skills, become familiar with the legislative process in Washington, and meet and collaborate\u00a0 with students from across UW.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>When is Lobby Day?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Monday, February 17, 2020 from 9am &#8211; 3pm (meet at 6:30am to carpool to Olympia)<\/p>\n<p>Training dates: 2 options provided and TBD &#8211;\u00a0 will be held 2-3 weeks prior to February 17th<\/p>\n<p><strong>SIGN UP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Click this link to fill out a survey and sign up to participate in Lobby Day 2020:\u00a0https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSd7XighqvHmOkHNDj-rgXeXI6vsdcWsqN2pZDjatgKT3MFRkw\/viewform?usp=sf_link<\/p>\n<p><strong>You do not need to be affiliated with Health Equity Circle to attend.<\/strong>\u00a0Please spread the word to your classmates and colleagues! If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to Health Equity Circle, Lobby Day Planning Committee at:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"mailto:hec.lobbyday@gmail.com\">hec.lobbyday@gmail.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re invited to our annual Lobby Day for Health Equity!\u00a0 What is Lobby Day? Every year on President&#8217;s Day (February 17, 2020), Health Equity Circle brings 50+ students (from schools of public health, nursing, medicine, law, social work, and more) to Olympia to voice support for or against the passage of specific bills that are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11235"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17455,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11235\/revisions\/17455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}