WDC's biennial Tommy Raskin Memorial Speaker Series continues with Robyn Nietert, President of the Women's Microfinance Initiative (WMI), which promotes women's economic participation and carries the hope of prosperity to poor rural areas of Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania.

Tommy Raskin entreated us to "look after the animals and the global poor." That's exactly what Robyn and WMI do. Join WDC and Tommy's dad, Congressman Jamie Raskin, on a lunchtime Zoom for a fascinating look at how WMI puts Tommy's values into practice every day by helping women increase their incomes by 100-400 percent during just the first six months of their loans.

We invite you to bring your lunch to this Zoom presentation. See what kind of lunch you can make for 45 cents or less...which is probably considerably more than the amount WMI loan recipients can spend on lunch prior to WMI's intervention.

A native of Long Island, NY, Ms. Nietert holds a B.A. from George Washington University and a J.D. from the National Law Center at George Washington University. For over 25 years she was a member of the Washington, D.C. law firm of Brown, Nietert and Kaufman, which specialized in telecommunications law, with a focus on innovative wireless technologies. She is also a founder and principal of American Capital Partners Company, specializing in mergers and acquisitions of high speed broadband facilities. During her career, Ms Nietert has represented pioneering telecommunications industries before the U.S. Congress and federal agencies, and has participated in crafting federal legislation and agency rules. She is a member of Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church and has served on the Board of Directors of the Carderock Springs Club. She has organized several non-profit education foundations and served on their boards of directors, including the Walt Whitman High School Education Foundation. In 2007, she founded WMI and serves as its president.