BGA presents 'Women who hold power to account'

As part of the BGA's effort to honor Women's History Month, we convened a panel of women who hold powerful people and institutions to account and exemplify integrity across Chicago's civic landscape.

The panel included Watergate prosecutor and MSNBC analyst Jill Wine-Banks, Chicago's first-ever female Inspector General, Deborah Witzburg, Illinois Answers Project Editor-in-Chief Ruby Bailey and President of the Chicago chapter of the League of Women Voters, Jane Ruby.

The thoughtful discussion moderated by BGA's Senior Policy Analyst, Sophia Van Pelt, captured the thoughts of the intrepid civic leaders on doing the hard work of accountability while also fighting sexism, the glass ceiling and glass cliff that women often face in the workplace and what it means to "be the first."