Adrienne has been the editor of the WISH Newsletter since it started. Under her leadership and commitment, we have published dozens of newsletters for and about WISH participants. Here is her reflection on the process:
The WISH Newsletter got started at the Christmas Party in 2001. One of the women there brought up the idea and a lot of people seemed to get excited about the idea. Since I have had experience being a secretary I volunteered to get it going. Since then we have produced a newsletter regularly, usually once every two or three months.
Our concept of the newsletter from the beginning has been a way to get the women at WISH involved as much as possible. It has been a challenge for me because I don’t always get the follow-through from them and have to learn to be patient and basically just accept whatever I can get for submissions. We put original poems, announcements, stories, artwork, an advice column, and a calendar of events into the newsletter. Our newsletter is pretty informal and only gets circulated in our organization so this gives us a lot of freedom in what we can put into it.