Dear members of Rewire’s communities:

As Thanksgiving Day quickly approaches, we want to take a moment to reflect on how grateful we are for the people who make Rewire what it is today. 

Core staff, including Amie Newman and Brady Swenson, are of course critical to making Rewire what it is every day and put in countless hours writing, editing, and managing the site.  Margaret Conway and Cristina Page have each contributed a great deal to Rewire this past year and we continue to benefit from their expertise, their work, and their insights.  We are also grateful for the work Emily Douglas did for Rewire until leaving for The Nation this past August. 

We have to thank Scott Swenson, now on sabbatical, for the vision and leadership provided from the very first day the site launched through this year, and David Harwood and Ellen Marshall for their ongoing vision and support in taking Rewire forward.

We are extremely grateful to the staff and leadership of the UN Foundation for the core financial support provided to Rewire and for the institutional and administrative support that underpins many day-to-day activities.

To the many writers, contributors and commentors who give life daily to the issues on which we work, we are extremely thankful for your work, your voices, and your passion, as we are for the vision and passion of our colleagues in the many organizations with which we interact who spend their professional careers working to protect women’s basic human rights.  Some writers deserve special mention as they are regular contributors to Rewire and do superb work analyzing issues for us, including our weekly columnists Amanda Marcotte, Sarah Seltzer, and Pamela Merritt, and advice columnist Heather Corinna.

We are also truly grateful to those colleagues in the Women and Media and Women and Technology communities with whom we interact daily who so freely share their ideas, intellect, critiques, and input objectively and candidly. 

Many of you play some or all of these roles on a daily basis but also are readers, of whom we are seeing increasing numbers, who read and use Rewire in so many ways.  We can’t thank you enough for both using and participating on the site, and hope you will continue to help us grow.

To all of you in the various communities with and in which we work, we thank you for all you do to make Rewire what it is.

A very happy Thanksgiving to all of you and your families.

 

Jodi Jacobson