The Time I was Fired from a Women’s Committee for Advocating for Women

Misty L. Heggeness
3 min readAug 9, 2023

Life is complicated, and so are politics. Which is why at the end of the day, I was told “thanks, but no thanks, we won’t be renewing you in this volunteer service position” on a women’s committee around the same time I was on the verge of successfully acquiring funding to develop an interactive sexual harassment mitigation workshop led by a nationally-renown expert.

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Misty L. Heggeness

Eternal optimist. Economist by day. Writer by night. Mother and wife 24/7. Opinions all my own.