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Enola Aird
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Enola
G. Aird is an activist mother. She is currently an Affiliate Scholar
at the Institute for American Values, where she founded and directs
the Motherhood Project. The mission of the Motherhood Project is to
put motherhood on the national agenda and foster a renewed sense of
purpose, passion, and power in the vocation of mothering in both the
public and private spheres. She is also the convener of the Mothers'
Council, a group of mothers of diverse backgrounds and political views,
which has set as one of its main objectives "to inspire mothers to
fight to change our toxic culture, rather than adapt to it."
Enola was born in the Republic of Panama and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of
Barnard College and received her law degree from Yale University. After eight
years in corporate law practice, Enola left the work force to devote her time
to her children. Through her experiences at home, she learned first-hand of the
extent to which mothering is devalued in American culture. This led her away
from the practice of law to a new vocation as an activist mother-- committed
to fighting for the best of all possible worlds for children and the mothers
and fathers who raise them.
She was appointed by Governors O'Neill and Weicker to the Connecticut Commission
on Children and elected Chair by its members, and worked for two years at the
Children's Defense Fund, serving as director of its violence prevention program
and acting director of its Black Community Crusade for Children.
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