Helen Hutchison (League of Women Voters of CA)

About this Episode

In this episode, rachel, Kendall, and Helen talk about:

• Growing up with the League
• The League as an outgrowth of the Suffrage movement
• What counts as non-partisan policy
• The struggle of managing and motivating volunteers
• How fundraising is harder when people are already 'donating' their time
• What an executive director does vs a president in the LWVO
• The tendency to move to fill a vacuum
• Breaking the cycle of doing this important work via the unpaid labor of women
• Developing the organizational habit of offering help and then stepping back to wait for community guidance on what that help looks like
• What to look for in an executive director for the LWV
• Maintaining consistency and project work across many volunteer terms
• The role of local government observers in the League
• What it means to be "somewhat ornery" :)
• Creating the leadership you want to see via tenacity and patience
• The struggle of appreciating some people's volunteerism :)
  

You can find Helen on LinkedIn and on Twitter as @helenhutch :)

Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3