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Hinckley Institute of Politics
Hinckley Institute of Politics

Utah Women Run

Utah Women Run

Utah Women Run is a collaborative nonpartisan initiative to empower and train women to participate fully in public life through political office and campaigns at all levels, issue advocacy, service on boards and commissions, and leadership in their communities.

We are hosted by the Hinckley Institute of Politics, the University of Utah’s destination for civic engagement and political expertise.

UWR was originally founded in 2011 as Real Women Run by a group of female leaders from higher education, non-profits, political office, and the business community with the goal to provide resources for women who wanted to become more engaged in politics and their communities. The organizers committed to the mission of encouraging women to engage more fully in public life.

For more than a decade, Utah Women Run has hosted dozens of events throughout the state and trained over 1,000 women on how to run for office, assist on campaigns, get appointed to boards and commissions, and serve their communities. Women who have attended these trainings learned the critical skills needed to wage successful campaigns. They have run for office, and won, at all levels from local school boards to federal office.

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