WHO WE ARE

SNDW Mission Statement:

• To Increase the Number Of Black Democratic Women Elected
• To and Serving In Public Office In the State Of Connecticut

  OUR MEMBERS

  The Sojourner Network of Democratic Women (SNDW) has been named in honor of the famed abolitionist and political activist Sojourner Truth. She traveled across the North and South championing the emancipation of enslaved Africans and voting rights for blacks, and women in particular. SNDW is a Democratic Political Action Committee of women, dedicated to advocacy and activism through the political process on issues that effect Black women and their families. We are committing to petitioning and holding accountable state and local office holders in addressing those issues. We are further dedicated to promoting positive change within our community by enhancing its political effectiveness through our involvement and through sharing our knowledge of the political system with our sisters in the state. SNDW’s membership is represented in cities across the State of Connecticut. Our members include elected officials in their own right who serve on the National Democratic Committee, CT Democratic State Central Committee, local boards of aldermen and city councils, local town committees as well as boards and commissions at both the state and local level. In 1999, SNDW endorsed and supported 22 Black women candidates for municipal office. Each of those women was successfully elected to office. In 1998, SNDW was one of the first organizations to endorse and work on behalf of the Honorable Denise L. Nappier, the 82nd Treasurer of the State of Connecticut, the first Black woman to serve as a constitutional officer in Connecticut and the first Black woman to serve as State Treasurer in the United States. As SNDW stepped into the 21st century, its publication of the Sojourner Network News quickly led the organization to design its own website at www.sojournernetworkct.org to use technology more widely in communicating the most pertinent political issues affecting our communities. Moving aggressively on our mission to increase the number of Black women elected officials in Connecticut, SNDW is now planning for the 5th Sojourner’s Women Political Institute.