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Empowering women in Michigan

AAUW has been empowering women as individuals and as a community since 1881. For more than 130 years, we have worked together as a national grassroots organization to improve the lives of millions of women and their families.

AAUW of Michigan Mission

AAUW advances gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.

AAUW’s Vision

Equity for all.

AAUW’s Values

Nonpartisan. Fact-based. Integrity. Inclusion and Intersectionality.

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Perks and Benefits of AAUW Membership

Public Policy and Advocacy

AAUWMI’s public policy and advocacy work seeks to empower women and girls in Michigan.

AAUW Public Policy Priorities	Be a Two-Minute Activist!	Michigan Voter Information Center
AAUWMI Public Policy Principles	AAUW's Policy Center	Connect with State Government
Public Policy Director's Message	AAUW's Advocacy Toolkit	Connect with Your US Legislators
Key Executive Orders and Actions in Trump’s First 100 Days

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Branch Leadership Playbooks

AAUW of Michigan is producing a series of branch leadership playbooks to assist branch officers and the collaborative teams they assemble, both formal and informal, to assist in performing their responsibilities. These playbooks are designed to be scalable for use by small, medium, and large branches. We hope the playbooks will help branches recruit new officers by making the jobs appear manageable, satisfying, and occasionally even fun. We welcome suggestions for updates and additions to future versions of the playbooks. Please send comments to .

AAUW of Michigan Newsletters

Community Connection

Welcome to the Community Connection, a place to view our e-blasts from your state organization. We promise to keep theCommunity Connection short, timely, and geared toward our members (that’s YOU) with what YOU might want to know or do to be an active AAUW member.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Toolkit

The AAUW Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) resources in the DEI Toolkit aim to identify best practices for promoting diversity, equity and inclusion within AAUW. These resources present guidelines for how AAUW branches, national members, student members and individual members can demonstrate an understanding of AAUW’s mission, values, goals and strategic plan. It is meant to start the inclusion conversation. We encourage all members to seek ways to incorporate inclusive practices into their branches and daily life.

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AAUW of Michigan Webinars

AAUW of Michigan presents Webinars on topics related to our mission. See some of our most recent presentations below. Find our complete archive of recordings on YouTube. For information about upcoming webinars and other events, see our calendar.

Revisiting the 2022 Election and the Future of Democracy, 2/9/2023

Screen shot from Recruiting and Engaging Younger Members Panel Discussion Recruiting and Engaging Younger Members Panel Discussion, 6/26/2023

Ranked Choice Voting for Michigan, Ron Zimmerman of Rank MI Vote, 9/14/2023

Screenshot of opening frame of video It’s in the Numbers!: Financial and Fundraising Information for Your AAUW Branch, 1/16/2025

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The 2026 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, widely known as the world’s largest gathering of women in technology, has been cancelled just weeks before it was scheduled to take place. AI was to be a focus of this year’s event. The organizer, the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, claims the numbers of sponsors and registrations were well below expectations and funds weren’t available to go forward.GHC, as the event was known, was named after Grace Hopper, the computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral who was a pioneer in the field of computer programming. The annual event offered women opportunities for job recruitment, mentoring, and professional connections. This year's event was supposed to offer supplemental AI training. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, women represented just 27.5% of U.S. computer and mathematical occupation workers in 2025, and Stanford’s 2026 AI Index reports that women remain underrepresented among global AI researchers and developers. The cancellation of the GHC leaves women in information technology wondering what will fill the void in providing women opportunities to break into the field.Read more: www.forbes.com/sites/sandycarter/2026/10/13/for-women-in-ai-what-the-grace-hopper-celebration-can...Photo credit: Flickr: Grace Hopper and UNIVAC, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons ...

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