LWVNE Holds Annual Meeting

The League of Women Voters of Nebraska held its 2022 annual meeting on Saturday, April 23, in Seward, NE. 

This year’s theme was “Renew, Revive, Refocus on Empowering Voters and Defending Democracy”

2022 marked the first in-person/hybrid annual meeting since 2019. Due to the pandemic and ensuring health and safety, a virtual option was available to members via Zoom. 

This year’s theme focused on the need to recenter members in the mission, vision and values of the league’s work. The 2020 election brought new and exciting challenges and opportunities not only for our league membership to expand, but also for our ability to reach more Nebraskans via digital Get Out the Vote and legislative advocacy work. We reached record number of voters in Nebraska and we appreciate all of your hard work then and now!

Looking forward to the future of the league and the continuation of our administration, we hope to focus on several key areas that will allow LWVNE to be more sustainable and drive progress and impact in many areas. As part of the annual meeting, focus groups discussed capacity building, DEI, organizing and outreach, volunteers and more. These conversations will help determine what our strategic goals should be in these areas and how we measure our success going forward.

Nebraska is at a pivotal point in terms of fighting for voting rights and an upcoming election, increased economic development in rural and urban areas, changes in our legislative governance, important conversations around criminal and social justice, impacts on the education of students, and a host of other issues.