Empowering You January 2019 Newsetter

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JANUARY 2019 NEWSLETTER

JANUARY 2019 

NEWSLETTER 

A Look Back at 2018 and 

a Look Forward to 2019 

For the first time, each staff member has contributed 

an article for this issue of the newsletter. 

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: We Must Continue 

Advocating for Food Assistance 

By Jeanette Mott Oxford (JMO), Executive Director p 3-5 

Behind the Scenes Progress 

By AJ Bockelman p 5 

The Time is Right: Criminal Justice Reform in Missouri 

By Christine Woody, p 6 

Justice Advocacy Is Growing In Southeast Missouri Too 

By Tracy Morrow, p 7 

2018 Brings Revitalization For Kansas City Chapter 

By Sarah Owsley Townsend, p 8 

Time to Build on the Momentum & Successes of the 

Past Year 

By Ashley Quinn, p 9-10 

Sign-up to attend Start-up Meeting for new statewide 

Affordable Housing Coalition p 10 

S E C T I O N S 

11 Calendar 

11 Staff Contacts 

Donate Now! 

Images: Happy New Year from Empower Missouri, Staff 

Pic from Housing Empowers Annual Conference, 2019 

#MOLeg Session Begins. 

Newsletter assembled by Ashley Quinn

JANUARY 2019 NEWSLETTER 

ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO STEPS 

BACK: WE MUST CONTINUE 

ADVOCATING FOR FOOD 

ASSISTANCE 

By Jeanette Mott Oxford (JMO), Executive Director 

A recent Weekly Perspective email 

blast from our headquarters shared 

the good news that our advocacy 

had led to passage of a Farm Bill 

reauthorization for the next five 

years that has much good news in 

it. However, on the heels of that 

victory, we saw legislation that 

would increase hunger in Missouri 

pre-filed in the Missouri Senate, 

and now the Trump Administration 

is trying to implement harsh rule 

changes to the Supplemental 

Nutrition Assistance Program 

(SNAP), formerly known as food 

stamps. 

Let us review some of the 

successes we had in the Farm Bill, 

after months of contacting our U.S. 

Senators and Representatives, 

writing letters to the editor and 

newspaper guest columns, and 

hosting community education 

sessions. Here are highlights of 

Farm Bill components that our 

advocacy helped secure: 

No Cuts to Benefits or Eligibility 

The bill avoids harsh eligibility 

changes to the Supplemental 


(SNAP) that would have made life 

harder for working families with low 

wages and erratic hours. All 

harmful provisions seen in the 

House version of the bill were 

rejected through your advocacy! 

Access to Healthy Foods 

The bill includes permanent 

mandatory baseline funding for 

Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentives 

(FINI), which encourage SNAP 

participants to purchase fresh fruits 

and vegetables at farmers’ markets 

and other retail locations. The bill 

also doubles funding for FINI, 

specifying $510 million over the 

next decade. In addition, the bill 

includes a new produce 

prescription initiative that make 

fruits and vegetables more 

accessible and affordable for SNAP 

families. 

Farm to Food Bank 

A “Farm to Food Bank” initiative is 

established to provide healthy, 

local foods to families in need while 

reducing food waste. 

Job Training Opportunities 

The bill provides an additional $234 

million in funding for innovative job 

training, focusing on proven 

strategies like case management to 

help SNAP participants find and 

keep good-paying jobs, but without 

sanctioning those who cannot 

consistently document twenty 

hours per week of work. 

Support for Seniors 

To make it more possible for 

seniors to easily access food 

assistance, burdensome paperwork 

for seniors within the Commodity 

Supplemental Food Program 

(CSFP) is reduced. 

Other Farm Bill Concerns 

Legislation that passes is seldom 

perfect, and the same is true of the 

Farm Bill. Our allies at the Missouri 

Rural Crisis Center have opposed 

parts of the Farm Bill that offer 

government assistance for 

corporate agriculture that clearly 

does not need taxpayer assistance. 

Such programs sometimes put 

those with small family farms at a 

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disadvantage. In addition, the 

Missouri Coalition for the 

Environment (MCE) electronic 

newsletter says that MCE is happy 

that the bill supports beginning and 

socially disadvantaged farmers, 

food security, and local and 

regional food systems. However, 

they are extremely disappointed in 

funding cuts for the Conservation 

Stewardship Program (CSP) and a 

lack of reform to commodity crop 

subsidies and crop insurance. 

Still with political gridlock being the 

way it is in Washington, DC, having 

nine of Missouri’s ten U.S. House 

and Senate members, three 

Democrats and seven Republicans, 

vote yes on the final version of the 

Farm Bill is a remarkable 

occurrence. (Rep. Hartzler did not 

vote due to the death of her father.) 

There is much to celebrate in the 

bill, including a significant 

investment in high-speed internet 

access for rural areas, including 

those in Missouri, an item that we 

understand was a priority for 

Congresswoman Hartzler. 

Punishment-Based State Level 

Bills Are Back 

At the time that President Trump 

signed the Farm Bill, we already 

knew we would be facing another 

state level attempt to impose 

punishment-based rules on SNAP 

recipients. Sen. David Sater (R- 

Cassville) prefiled 

Senate Bill 

4 on December 

1. This is a bill 

that is identical 

to Senate Bill 

561 from 2018, 

one of the four 

bills that 

threatened to 

cut tens of 

thousands of 

Missourians off 

of SNAP by imposing work-hourtracking 

requirements that many 

will be unable to meet due to 

sporadic work schedules, poor 

physical or mental health, 

transportation difficulties and other 

employment challenges. (Many of 

these could win an appeal if they 

had the stability to file an appeal 

and steadfastly press forward with 

evidence in their case, but that is 

very difficult for persons who are 

desperately poor.) 

We also have information that 

indicates that Rep. Hannah Kelly 

(R-Mountain Grove) will bring back 

her version of a work-hour-tracking 

bill again. We plan to meet with 

both Rep. Kelly and Sen. Sater in 

early January to see if other 

solutions to their concerns may be 

found. We will ask the large and 

diverse coalition that worked 

together in 2018 to re-form for this 

effort. 

Trump Administration Violates 

Bipartisan Spirit of the Farm Bill 

And another shoe dropped on 

December 19. Just days after 

signing the bipartisan Farm Bill, the 

Trump Administration announced a 

proposed rule change at the U.S. 

Department of Agriculture (USDA), 

related to the policies that govern 

the availability of food assistance 

for able-bodied adults without 

dependents. Here is the statement 

that I released to the media on 

December 20, 2018, in response to 

this executive branch proposal: 

We rejoiced a week ago when 

Congress passed a strong, 

bipartisan farm bill that protects 

and strengthens the Supplemental 


(SNAP), formerly known as food 

stamps. But the Trump 

administration has moved swiftly to 

undermine this progress through 

severe new rules that will make it 

harder for Missouri counties to get 

the food assistance they need in 

times of higher unemployment. 

When the federal welfare reform 

law of 1996 was implemented, it 

included limiting SNAP to three 

months out of every three years for 

adults aged 18 through 49 who 

aren’t raising minor children in their 

homes, but, because of the harsh 

nature of this change, this part of 

the law provided states the ability 

to waive this rule in areas where 

jobs for these individuals are 

lacking, such as when 

unemployment is elevated. 

Missouri unwisely passed Senate 

Bill 24 in 2015, tying the hands of 

our own state so that we could not 

seek such waivers, despite the fact 

that both Democratic and 

Republican governors had utilized 

the waivers in the past to keep food 

assistance available in highunemployment 

counties. 

Fortunately the waiver ban had a 

sunset date of January 1, 2019. 

There are currently 50 Missouri 

counties that have had 

unemployment high enough over 

the past two years to qualify for 

such a waiver and extra months of 

food assistance. 

If implemented, the administration’s 

proposed rule would restrict our 

state’s ability to temporarily waive 

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Behind the scenes 

progress 

By AJ Bockelman, Assistant Director 

You don’t typically hear too much 

from me, and that is by design! In 

general, my role is to help keep the 

administrative side of the 

organization moving along. With 

our re-orientation of the focus 

areas in 2018, I wanted to take a 

moment and update you on how 

we are continuing to evolve to 

define what it means to be an 

advocacy organization in this day 

and age. 

Within just a few weeks, we will be 

launching our new website. Earlier 

we upgraded our back-end system 

for online advocacy efforts, events 

management, and donations. Our 

new site will integrate more 

robust elements from that 

system and keep you up to 

date on current efforts where 

we need your help! 

We also hope to bring on a new 

position in 2019 – a 

Communications Director. A more 

unified and strategic 

communications plan will allow us 

to interact more online across the 

state, helping to bridge the urban/ 

rural divide, and hopefully, bring 

more of you to interact with your 

legislators in person. The 

Communications position is 

designed to create a series of 

actions for our volunteers and 

donors to complete online, and 

then ideally, join us for more inperson 

activities at the Capitol and 

within your own home districts. 

These are just two small things we 

know will make a big difference in 

2019 and beyond. If you have any 

ideas or would like to see more of 

something, drop me a line at 

AJ@EmpowerMissouri.org. 


the existing three-month-time-limit. 

Data from the Missouri Department 

of Social Services (February 15, 

2018) showed that 78,610 

Missourians had lost food 

assistance after the three-monthtime-limit 

and waiver ban was 

implemented in Missouri. This 

caused our state to lose 

$12,627,898 monthly in SNAP 

benefits, dollars spent in our local 

grocery stores, supporting local 

economies, while reducing hunger. 

Punishing workers who are 

struggling to find work by taking 

away their food assistance does 

not help them secure a higher 

wage job with more hours or find 

work faster. We know how harmful 

this proposal is, because Missouri 

has already experimented with it. 

Missouri should choose a better 

path when the waiver ban expires 

on January 1, and the Trump 

administration should respect the 

bipartisan legislative process that 

rejected these kinds of harsh 

changes to SNAP. This change 

would truly increase hunger without 

doing a single thing to create or 

sustain employment opportunities. 

In Closing 

In the words of the old spiritual, 

“Children, don’t grow weary.” Yes, 

it is tiring to speak out time and 

time again for access to food, one 

of the most basic human needs. 

But as long as there is a threat of 

increased hunger — to our 

neighbors, for some of us, to 

ourselves— we must speak 

together for compassionate and 

effective social policy. No one 

benefits from hunger. Food 

assistance improves health 

outcomes, boosts school success, 

and helps workers with low-wages 

sustain their jobs. It brings money 

into the Missouri economy and 

especially is important in Missouri’s 

rural counties. Let us commit to 

work together to defeat the 

punishment-based proposals in the 

Missouri General Assembly and at 

the USDA. Participate in our 

“Under the Dome and Across the 

State” briefings for advocates, 

twice per month February until mid- 

May for timely calls to action. 

jeanette@empowermissouri.org 

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The Time is Right: 

Criminal Justice Reform 

In Missouri 

By Christine Woody, Staff Lead for Criminal Justice 

2018 has proven to be a 

successful year regarding 

Empower Missouri’s work on 

criminal justice. During the 2018 

legislative session, Empower 

Missouri was intimately involved 

in the Raise the Age Coalition. 

This coalition included 

advocates across Missouri 

united in the goal of raising the 

age of juvenile jurisdiction from 

17 to 18 years of age. Research 

shows that this change can both 

save lives (due to the high rate 

of suicide by youth in adult 

prisons) and lead to better 

outcomes around future 

employment and stable lives. To 

learn more about the Raise the 

Age issue, visit the website: 

www.raisetheage.com. 

Because of the tireless work of 

Empower Missouri, the rest of 

the coalition members, as well 

as that of our Legislative 

champions, Rep. Nick Schroer 

and Sen. Wayne Wallingford, 

the Raise the Age bill passed 

and was signed by the 

Governor on June 1, 2018! 

Missouri became the 46 th state 

to adopt the standard of 18 

years of age for prosecution as 

an adult. 

Because of the success that we 

saw with Raise the Age in 2018 

and because the state must act 

quickly to avoid the expense of 

building and operating new 

prisons, Empower Missouri 

leaders believe significant 

progress on criminal justice 

reform is currently possible. 

We decided to spearhead the 

creation of a new statewide 

coalition to work on additional 

criminal justice reform 

measures and convened an 

initial meeting of advocates and 

organizations, including formerly 

incarcerated persons, on 

August 30th in Jefferson City. 

We invited Nicole D. Porter from 

The Sentencing Project in 

Washington, DC, to join us at 

the meeting to discuss criminal 

justice reforms other states 

have adopted that have reduced 

incarceration without a loss of 

public safety. (Nicole gave a 

public presentation on this topic 

for our Central Missouri-Lincoln 

University Chapter the night 

before the meeting, and some 

legislators sent staff to this 

lecture.) Molly Gill of Families 

Against Mandatory Minimums 

also joined the August 30 

meeting by telephone. 

Since the coalition launch, 

members have met with many 

key policy makers and leaders 

in the Missouri criminal justice 

system to share our ideas for 

2019. We continue to research 

and discuss possible changes 

such as increasing the felony 

theft threshold, passing an elder 

parole bill, adopting “clean 

slate” legislation, ending cash 

bail, and/or reforming or 

reducing the use of mandatory 

minimums. 

We are optimistic that positive 

changes to our criminal justice 

system are possible in the 

coming year. To become a part 

of the Smart Sentencing 

Coalition, contact me at 

christine@empowermissouri.org 

. 

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Justice Advocacy Is Growing In 

Southeast Missouri Too 

By Tracy Morrow, Southeast Missouri Health Organizer 

As 2018 comes to an end, it’s a 

great time to reflect on education 

and advocacy that Empower 

Missouri has been able to generate 

in Southeast Missouri this past 

year. We have been working hard 

to help residents of the Bootheel 

know how to take action that will 

make an important difference 

related to access to basic human 

needs and fairness. 

Many residents of the Bootheel 

struggle with lack of affordable 

housing and even experience 

homelessness. With this in mind, 

we held events in centrally located 

areas to discuss these problems 

and how, as a community, we 

could respond. With the 

understanding that many 

circumstances lead to 

homelessness, Empower Missouri 

collaborated with both Poplar Bluff 

and Cape Girardeau to hold 

community events to provide a 

wide array of services in one 

location. These events were a big 

success and brought the issue to 

the forefront of people’s minds in 

those communities. 

Local legislators were invited to 

these events to ensure that 

policymakers understand what the 

people in their counties are facing. 

Our resource fairs consisted of 

organizations like the Missouri 

Food Bank, organizations that help 

with housing, agencies that help 

people navigate the Supplemental 


(SNAP) application online, those 

who aid in getting birth certificates, 

groups that offer health 

screenings and much more. 

There were even groups 

providing essential items such 

as showers, haircuts and clean 

clothes. 

We also did a lot of work 

regarding the Farm Bill. Many 

households in the Bootheel, about 

one out of six, are receiving SNAP 

benefits. Many of these 

households have children residing 

in them. With the loss of benefits 

these, families would face more 

economic challenges, causing 

them to have to choose between 

the many things the families may 

need. The harsh work-hourtracking 

requirements would also 

put a strain on the people in 

Southeast Missouri because of the 

lack of jobs and transportation. 

The events we held helped people 

understand the intricacies of the 

bill. We explained the percentages 

of people who receive benefits, the 

amount of people who work and 

what would happen to people who 

lost their benefits, including who 

would be impacted most. 

We can’t forget the “Voter 

Protection” constitutional 

amendment that was passed in 

2016. The new law that came out 

of this has caused a lot of 

confusion and frustration for the 

people of Southeast Missouri. To 

help people understand their voting 

rights, we held educational events 

to explain what the new rules 

meant, what people needed to be 

able to vote, and voter registration 

deadlines. Empower Missouri still 

believes this amendment was 

about voter suppression, not 

protection, and we continue to 

work with the Voter Protection 

Coalition to repeal it. 

Much of my focus is building 

relationships with communities 

since there is so much that we can 

achieve together that we cannot do 

alone. In addition, we want people 

in the Bootheel to understand the 

importance of making their voices 

heard in the state capital. 

In November, Empower Missouri 

hosted an advocacy training that 

was very well attended. We were 

fortunate to have JMO come from 

our Jefferson City headquarters to 

present. Both employees of 

agencies and private citizens came 

to learn about advocacy. Many 

people showed an interest in 

working in the local Southeast 

Missouri chapter, leading us to 

have high hopes for next year and 

the work we will continue to do. 

We believe good things will be 

coming for the Bootheel next year 

because of our increased unity and 

advocacy skills. 

Tracy@empowermissouri.org 

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2018 Brings Revitalization For Kansas 

City Chapter 

By Sarah Owsley Townsend, Kansas City Regional Organiz- 

Ringing in a new year naturally 

brings some time for reflection. 

Looking at the past several 

months, I hope you’ll agree that 

2018 has been an exciting year 

for Empower Missouri’s Kansas 

City chapter. 

In April, I was hired to lead 

organizing efforts in the Kansas 

City Region. This followed 

many years of part-time staffing 

and a period of the chapter 

being unstaffed in order to raise 

funds to make the position fulltime. 

I come from a grassroots 

organizing background, which 

means my focus is always on 

developing leadership and 

holding ourselves accountable 

to our community. This 

approach has reinvigorated the 

chapter. We have honed our 

focus and set clear priorities. 

My first few months were spent 

investing in leadership in 

Kansas City. I spent the 

summer expanding our steering 

team, and, in July, they met as 

a body for the first time. This 

team is diverse in gender, race/ 

ethnicity, socioeconomic status, 

experience and expertise. In 

addition, we have two new 

statewide board members, 

elected on November 17 at 

the annual business 

meeting, from our chapter 

leadership. Marqueia 

Watson and Nicole McGee 

are now sharing the 

experience and priorities 

coming out of Kansas City to 

shape our statewide work. 

Our next focus was on 

expanding the Friday 

forums, deepening the work 

and inviting more 

participation from the 

community. Since August, 

we’ve featured over a dozen 

personally impacted voices, 

sharing their lived experiences. 

We’ve looked into a broad 

variety of topics, from national 

immigration policy to aging to 

LGBT inclusion in our own 

agencies. We’ve used our 

forum platform, not just to 

highlight individuals, but to ask 

how we can partner with them 

in their struggles for basic 

human needs and equity. 

Kansas City (with significant 

leadership by our chapter 

members) has made housing 

policy a clear priority for the 

coming year. In August, we 

won a critical housing policy by 

local ballot measure which will 

expand access to healthy and 

safe rental homes. With a large 

field of mayoral candidates 

positioning themselves for next 

year’s election, our members 

have already started to ask 

questions about affordable 

housing and equitable 

development. 

As we move into 2019, I know 

this investment in our 

community and our leaders will 

continue to benefit us. 

Centering lived experience and 

affected voices in our work will 

carry us through another 

powerful year in justice 

advocacy in Kansas City. 

SarahOT@empowermissouri.org 

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Time to build on the momentum & 

successes of the past year 

By Ashley Quinn, Staffer for MO HIV Justice Coalition 

2018 has been a year of some 

major milestones and important 

base building for the MO HIV 

Justice Coalition. In March, on the 

final day to file bills for the 2018 

legislative session, two bill 

sponsors in the Missouri House 

each filed their own versions of a 

bill to modernize Missouri’s HIVspecific 

criminal 

statutes. And just 

weeks ago, Reps. 

Rehder and 

McCreery again filed 

their bills, this time 

on the very first day 

available to pre-file. 

And while the filing of 

these modernization 

bills is important, 

integral to the 

change we’re 

working for, there is 

so much more 

happening behind 

the scenes and 

around the state. 

At the start of the year, Randall 

Jenson of SocialScope 

Productions and one of the 

attendees of our Train the Trainer 

session in Springfield the previous 

year, was contracted to conduct 

five trainings around the state. He 

developed a 2.5-hour training that 

gave an introduction to HIV 

focusing on public perceptions and 

existing stigmas and assumptions, 

and moving into education about 

existing laws. These provided 

education for staff of AIDS service 

organizations (ASOs), students, 

and members of the general public. 

Through these trainings, we were 

able to engage new coalition 

members. 

Attendees of Dec 3 Press Conference, L-R: Ashley Quinn, Aaron 

Laxton of MO Safe Project, Rep. Holly Rehder, LaTriischa Miles, 

Brenan Keiser, JMO, Sue Gibson 

Just over a dozen new and 

seasoned coalition members 

journeyed to the state capitol 

building in March to educate their 

state representatives and the 

members of the House Health & 

Mental Health Policy committee - 

which we anticipated would hear 

HBs 2674 & 2675 if we were 

fortunate enough to get a hearing. 

Yet with just days left in the 

legislative session and no word of 

a hearing, we had basically given 

up that hope that we would get 

such a hearing when we got just 24 

-hours notice of a posted hearing 

for our bills. 

Coalition members traveled from 

Kansas City, Columbia, 

and Springfield and 

waited several hours for a 

delayed start to the final 

meeting of the health 

policy committee. (A 

group in the capitol giving 

away free ice cream 

sundaes made the wait a 

little more pleasant.) 

Some committee 

members, as we 

expected, seemed to have 

a knowledge bank 

regarding HIV that had hit 

a wall in the mid-1990s - 

like many in the general 

public. Coalition members, people 

living with HIV, were able to share 

their life, their experience, and their 

fears about how these existing 

laws work counter to the best 

interests of public health. They 

said, when they were diagnosed, 

they feared the virus would mean 

their life would be cut short. But 

access to health care and 

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advances in medicine, treatment, 

and scientific understanding of HIV 

have meant these are people living 

with HIV. 

Testing and early diagnosis not 

only improves one’s opportunity to 

survive and live a long life with HIV, 

it also drastically reduces the 

opportunity to transmit the virus to 

others. But current laws incentivize 

ignorance of an HIV diagnosis by 

applying criminal liability to those 

diagnosed. As Robert, a coalition 

member, put it as he testified 

before the committee, “What this 

virus needs is fear and darkness to 

spread, and these laws are fear 

and darkness.” Coalition members’ 

powerful testimony shed a lot of 

light for committee members, and, 

while they acknowledged it was too 

late in the session to move the bills 

forward, they strongly encouraged 

Reps. Rehder and McCreery to 

refile the bills in 2019 (which is just 

what they’ve done). 

We’ve also done some nuts and 

bolts work as a coalition to develop 

guiding principles and structure 

committees to divvy up the work. 

We’ve developed new partnerships 

with organizations like The Griot 

Museum. And we’ve had meetings 

with key stakeholders around the 

state. We’re working with 

prosecutors, state and county 

health departments, and law 

enforcement, along with PLHIV, 

members of the LGBTQ+ 

community, sex workers and others 

that feel the impact of HIV 

criminalization most acutely. 

We are excited about the coming 

legislative session. HIV criminal law 

modernization has bipartisan 

support. Rep. Rehder’s press 

conference, which coincided with 

the start of HIV/AIDS Awareness 

Month, had a strong reception from 

capitol media and good press 

concerning all three of Rep. 

Rehder’s harm-reduction health 

policy bills. Prosecutors appear 

open to modernizing the laws. And 

our coalition is re-invigorated and 

growing. We celebrate the 

successes of the MO HIV Justice 

Coalition in 2018 and look forward 

to continuing advocating for justice 

in 2019. 

@MOHIVJustice, 

mohivjustice@empowermissouri.org, 

Ashley - 417.425.6251 

AFFORDABLE HOUSING COALITION 

Click to join us Jan 10 

Save the Date and join us in Jefferson City for the first in person meeting of this to-be-named 

statewide coalition for affordable housing. This meeting will include an open conversation about 

the housing needs in our state, what you see in your city, and begin to come up with a slate of 

policy priorities addressing the lack of affordable housing in our communities. After a provided 

lunch we will engage in an advocacy training which will include a tour of our capital building, led by 

Jeanette Mott Oxford, Executive Director of Empower Missouri. 

For info: SarahOT@empowermissouri.org (816) 506-3513 

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CALENDAR 

January 9 - MO General Assembly 2019 Legislative Session Begins 

Jan 10 - Affordable Housing Coalition - sign up at link, Jefferson City 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM 

Jan 11 - MO HIV Justice Coalition Regular Conference Call Secondary Conference Line, 1:00 - 2:00 PM 

Jan 18 - The Time is Right for Criminal Justice Reform: Local, State, and Federal, Paraquad 12:00 - 1:30 PM 

Jan 21 - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Empower Missouri offices closed, find a celebration in your area. 

Jan 24 - Under the Dome & Around the State Briefing Call, Main Conference Line (515) 603-3103; 167856, 

4:30-6:00 PM 

Jan 25 - MO HIV Justice Coalition Regular Conference Call Secondary Conference Line, 1:00 - 2:00 PM 

Save the Date for these exciting special events in February: 

STL Legislative Happy Hour, Thursday February 7, Schlafly Bottleworks, 5:00 - 7:00 PM 

KC United Way Legislative Preview, Friday February 1, Grace and Holy Cathedral, 8:00 - 11:00 AM 

Advocating for justice | Empowering Change 

Headquarters’ Address 

308 E. High St., Suite 100 

Jefferson City, MO 65101 

(573) 634-2901 

(888) 634-2901 

@EmpowerMissouri 

www.EmpowerMissouri.org 

Executive Director, Jeanette Mott Oxford 

Jeanette@empowermissouri.org 

Assistant Director, AJ Bockelman 

AJ@empowermissouri.org 

St. Louis, Christine Woody 

Christine@empowermissouri.org 

Southeast MO, Tracy Morrow 

Tracy@empowermissouri.org 

Springfield, Ashley Quinn 

Ashley@empowermissouri.org 

Kansas City, Sarah Owsley Townsend 

SarahOT@empowermissouri.org 

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