The Womans Media Center - The Progressive Women’s Voices program has become a cornerstone of The Women’s Media Center. We are “changing the conversation” by making sure that there are plenty of qualified, authoritative, progressive women experts available to editors, reporters, producers, and bookers.

In our first year of the program, we intensively media trained 33 women who have gone on to earn over 1000 media hits year to date. Our inaugural class was a stellar group, with experts in foreign policy, reproductive rights, environmental issues, racial justice, voting rights, the history of feminism, immigrant communities, outsider cultures, national security, and many more areas of expertise.



With our training and help, in 2008, our PWV women wrote Op Eds in the Washington Post and The New York Times, features for Elle and New York magazine, were quoted in USA Today, Forbes, Variety, Mother Jones, the Wall Street Journal, Slate, Salon, The New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, on the Associated Press and Reuters wires, appeared on Good Morning America, CNN, MSNBC, CBS Nightly News, Fox News, ABC News, CNBC, The Tyra Banks Show, PBS’s “To The Contrary,” Bill Moyers, on numerous NPR shows, and in hundreds of other significant media outlets.

We are now accepting applications for our 2009 Progressive Women's Voices classes. We have three classes scheduled for the year. The first class will be training in New York Feb 6-7, March 6-7, and April 3-4, with all travel expenses paid for by the WMC. Applications for the first class will be open from now until December 15th. For more information, and to apply, click here:

If you know of a woman whose voice should be heard in the media, please forward this email to her and encourage her to apply. If the first class does not work for her, we have two more planned later in the year, so please encourage her to check our website for complete program details.