What can you do for International Women’s Day on Cape Cod? This breakfast is a start.

The League of Women Voters of Cape Cod will revive a long-running International Women’s Day event once hosted by a now-defunct organization.

The Cape Women’s Coalition has held its annual “International Women’s Day Breakfast” for at least 10 years. The group’s operations ceased indefinitely in 2022 as it struggled to recruit members and volunteers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This year the event will take place from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Friday, March 8 at the Hyport Conference Center in Hyannis.

“It’s an honor to be asked to resurrect the event and plan it,” said Jeanne Morrison, co-chair of the League of Women Voters of Cape Cod, along with Mary Utt. “I hope this is the first of a continuation of the celebration of International Women’s Day.”

The League of Women Voters of Cape Cod Area will host the breakfast in collaboration with the League of Women Voters of Falmouth, Amplify POC, the Cape Cod Foundation Women and Girls Fund, the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe and the Cape Cod Cape Verdean. Museum.

Two panels will focus on the theme: “The power of women and girls creating change”.

“It’s really about using your power, where you are in life, to make positive change in our community,” Morrison said.

Who are those who speak?

Mindy Todd of The Point on WCAI will moderate the first panel — “Celebrating elected women leaders who are making a difference.” Panelists include Barnstable County Sheriff Donna Buckley, Bourne Select Board Member Melissa Ferretti, and Falmouth Select Board Member Onjal Scott Price.

Ferretti, who is also chairwoman of the Herring Pond Wampanoag Tribe, said she hopes her participation on the panel will allow other women like her to consider getting involved in their community.

“I consider myself an average person in some ways and I didn’t expect to be in this role, but there are reasons why I did. I think women don’t realize how much they can be powerful and effective in these roles,” Ferretti said.

The second panel — “Celebrating young women and girls who are making a difference locally” — will be moderated by Erica Tso Haidas of Belonging Books. Panelists include Karibbean Lounge owner Allanah Boddah, entrepreneur Henna Monty, business owner and translator/interpreter Natalia Fros, and Destinee Powell, Cape Cod Community College student and activist member of the YMCA Achievers program.

Local organizations serving women and girls will also be on hand to share information and services available in the Cape Cod region.

“It was more appropriate to include all the diversity of Cape Cod and the women from around the world who lived there,” Morrison said. “We thought the planning should include representation from diverse groups of women.”

Tara Vargas Wallace, CEO and founder of Amplify POC, said she wants people to leave the event inspired.

“Because of my role at Amplify, I focus on people of color, and women of color have been absent from a lot of these events…all women are powerful and we are more powerful together and achieve more when we “are all included,” Vargas Wallace said.

Registration is required and can be completed on the League of Women Voters of Cape Cod Area website.

Zane Razzaq writes about housing and real estate. Contact her at zrazzaq@capecodonline.com. Follow her on @zanerazz.

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