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DEBBIE WALSH Director, Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University Debbie Walsh is the director of the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at Rutgers' Eagleton Institute of Politics. She joined the CAWP staff in 1981. She earned her B.A. in political science from SUNY Binghamton and her M.A. in political science from Rutgers, where she was an Eagleton Fellow. As director, she oversees CAWP's research, education and public service programs. She is frequently called upon by the media for information and comment and speaks to a variety of audiences around the country on topics related to women's political participation. First as director of CAWP's Program for Women Public Officials and now as the Center's director, Debbie has led the Center's extensive work with women officeholders and organized more than a dozen national conferences for women officials, ranging from small meetings focused on issues such as women's legislative caucuses, women in legislative leadership and training programs for newly elected women legislators to CAWP's quadrennial national Forum for Women State Legislators, to which every woman state legislator in the country is invited.Walsh is currently working on a number of projects, including a look at the impact of term limits and redistricting on women's representation in state legislatures, as well as an initiative to identify and recruit women candidates in New Jersey and a new project in partnership with NOBEL/Women to encourage African American women to seek elective office. CAWP recently released a new study on the impact of women in state legislatures. She is also responsible for directing the nomination and selection process for the Good Housekeeping Award for Women in Government, a project with Good Housekeeping magazine sponsored by the Ford Foundation. Each year CAWP and Good Housekeeping solicit nominations from across the country and with a selection committee of high-profile political women choose nine women to honor. The top winner receives an award of $25,000; the other seven winners receive $2,500. In addition, a $25,000 Good Housekeeping/Wyeth Award for Women in Government is given to a woman in government who is working on women's health issues. In 1984 she served as the Associate Producer of a documentary film "Not One of the Boys" which aired on the PBS series, Frontline, and had a viewership of six million people.
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