The Project

The Project
Ok, I have sometime to blog so I am going to catch up a little bit on what is going on right now.

The project I am working on right now.

My friend and mentor Deb is getting her PhD in Education from Eastern which is requiring her to write a dissertation. She has written a 185 pg proposal titled Women Govenors:the influence of gender on public policy. So as a part of this proposal she is going to interview former woman govenors to start research on just that the influence of gender on public policy. I sugessted she shoot the interviews and turn it into a documentary if she wanted to later. She asked if I wanted to do it and I said yes.

So for awhile we were not quite sure when this project was really going to take off UNTIL Debs son Ian called her from Korea. Ian (Debs son) who lives in Korea with his wife and kids. It just so happens that he has started his own buisness helping Korean parents find shools for their kids to go to in the states...boarding schools...the rich expensive kind. So he called Deb and said "Hey mom I am sending a Korean girl over to look at schools in New England, will you take her around to these schools." Deb said sure and while I am there I have former govenors that I want to interview in the New England area so I will do that as well.

So Deb said I am going to do this and I said are you still going to shoot the interveiws and she said well yeah I guess I will do you want to come along? and I said sure...so here I am.

I have already learned quite a bit. Here are just a few things.
There are only 29 female govenors ever. That's it.
12 are still alive.1 has already turned down being interviewed cause she does not want to recount the horrible expereince she had
1 we can not interview cause she is running for a senate seat and is too busy

You know I really can't even go into how much I have learned from this little project of Debs...we have had so many long conversations about the history of women. I thought I knew a lot but man do feel that I really have to start reading up on this more. There are so many amazing stories to tell.

So we leave Sunday November 25. We are on the road for a few days working on our project then we pick up the Korean girl in Boston and have her for about 4 days showing her around and the a few more days on our project.

Stay tuned for highlights