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MomsRising to Present Awards to State & County Leaders in Pittsburgh Sunday as Lawmakers, Moms, Families Celebrate Parent Power

December 1, 2023
Paid Family & Medical Leave, Early Care & Education, Pennsylvania

Lisa Lederer, 202/371-1996

For Sunday, December 3, 2023, 2:00 PM ET

This Sunday at 2 PM, MomsRising will host a Parent Power Celebration at the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh. The event will celebrate graduates of the MomsRising Fellowship Program, which empowers parents in Allegheny County to fight for the public polices their families need, including affordable child care, paid family and medical leave, and more. The celebration will also mark the launch of MomsRising’s new parent leadership training toolkit, which will supercharge more than 1,000 parent leaders statewide.

At the event, MomsRising will present awards to Pennsylvania leaders who have championed policies that support working families, including:

  • Pennsylvania State Representative La’Tasha D. Mayes

  • Blayre Holmes Davis, Second Lady of Pennsylvania

  • Judge Chelsa Wagner, Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas

Other guests will include:

  • State Representative Abigail Salisbury 

  • Pittsburgh Deputy Mayor Jake Pawlak

  • Pittsburgh City Councilperson Erika Strassburger

  • Representatives from Senator Casey’s office, State Senator Jay Costa’s office, and more 

Partner organizations from across Allegheny County are also joining the celebration, to share updates on their work and information about their programs, including Trying Together, Just Harvest, Women and Girls Foundation, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Gwen’s Girls, Healthy Start, Young Black Motivated Kings and Queens, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, Professional Women’s Network, AMP Global Youth and Heinz Endowments. 

The celebration, which will include children, will include free family portraits, a magician, and a DJ. It is open to media.

MomsRising is an online and on-the-ground organization of more than one million members, including over 25,000  in Pennsylvania, fighting to improve family economic security, stop discrimination against women and moms, and build a nation where families and businesses can thrive. 

WHAT: MomsRising Parent Power Celebration

WHO: Over 100 parents and families, local leaders, and organizations 

WHEN: Sunday, December 3, 2-5pm ET 

WHERE: Heinz History Center, 1212 Smallman St, Pittsburgh, PA 15222

RSVP: For more information, please contact Magen Eissenstat, magen@momsrising.org, 202/609-9889 (cell).

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, stop discrimination against women and moms, and build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: www.MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.