FightLikeLeft to right: Susan Mittelstadt, Secretary, Linda Ortiz, Finance Officer, Lydia Villegas, President, Mary Ann Sedillo, Vice-President, Jimmie Terry, Sergeant-At-Arms Membership of “Fight Like A Girl” a 501 C3 Non-Profit Organization; an organization that will provide skills and assistance to empower women/girls and will also strive to train women/girls to strengthen the workforce in our community.

With this letter “Fight Like A Girl” asks you to become part of our Team that will be providing support, assistance and empowerment to girls and women mentally, spiritually, academically, socially, emotionally, and physically through education and scholarships that focus on social skills, behavioral skills, self-esteem skills, leadership skills, and or job skills.  We plan to offer mentoring and offer support to other organizations that support our mission.  We plan to empower girls and women of all ages so they can enrich their lives and our community.  One of our major goals is to create and encourage the growth of a healthy and powerful workforce in our community through our organization.

Agenda for meeting and event below:

We are so excited about setting up various workshops, classes, mentoring classes, physical education classes, scholarships, and many other events to fulfill our mission for women and girls locally.  We are in search of creating partnerships with various local businesses and officials so we can conduct these necessary tasks that we are talking about in this letter.

With this being said your membership is vital to begin this beautiful and strong journey with the women and girls in our community and “Fight Like A Girl.”  We are planning an event on “International Women’s Day,” March 8, 2024 at Western New Mexico University in order to give official birth to “Fight Like A Girl.” WNMU will be incorporating some events on our agenda, they will be proving some sponsorship and some of their students will participate in this event as well.

We would like to thank you from the bottom our heart in advance for your membership. Please contact us if you have any questions.

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Student:$20 Member:$30  Family:$50 Sponsor:$100   Golden Friends of FLAG:$250 or more

AGENDA

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY  - MARCH 8, 2024

AT WESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY

CAMPAIGN TO ENERGIZE AND EXPAND EXPOSURE TO

F!GHT L!KE A G!RL

9:00 AM until 10:00 AM – YOGA, with Susan Mittelstadt

10:30 AM until 11:30 AM – WALK AROUND WNMU CAMPUS

11:30 AM until 2:30 PM - BREAK

2:30 PM - BEGIN GATHERING AT THE BESSE GLOBAL RESOURCE CENTER ON 12TH STREET AT WNMU

3:00 PM until 3:15 PM – SIAH CORREA HEMPHILL, PLEDGE OF ALLEGIENCE & SALUTE TO THE NEW MEXICO FLAG AND GREETING

3:15 PM – SPEAKER FROM WESTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY

3:30 PM until 5:00 PM - F!GHT L!KE A G!RL BOARD MEMBERS, HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY AND INTRODUCTION OF F!GHT L!KE A G!RL ORGANIZATION (Lydia Villegas, President, Mary Ann Sedillo, Vice-President, Susan Mittelstadt, Secretary, Linda Ortiz, Finance Officer, Jimmie Terry, Sergeant-At-Arms

DOORPRIZES – FREE T-SHIRTS – FREE BUTTONS & STICKERS - FUN EXERCISES – FUN ACTIVITIES

FOOD AND REFRESHMENTS…PLEASE COME JOIN US WNMU!

“We support girls and women to SEE SOMETHING in themselves so they are inspired to DO SOMETHING that contributes to their community.”

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