Our Impact

Empower yourself. Find community. Gain the tools for change.

Ask Her has spent the past two years building and expanding our reach as we look ahead to the 2025 municipal election cycle. We ran two cohorts of Prepare Her, expanded to Edmonton, and launched a new blog to share our thoughts on emerging issues affecting women and gender-diverse people in politics. Learn more about the amazing things our team accomplished in our 2023-2024 Impact Report!

She Belongs: Finding your role. Finding your voice. Finding your community.

2022 wasn’t an election year for municipalities, but it was a year where continued action, events, and dialogue to support and amplify women and gender-diverse people in municipal leadership remained critical. At Ask Her YYC, 2022 was a year of dialogue with our community, volunteers, supporters, and partner organizations. Our focus was on creating awareness about the need and important benefits of creating gender parity in municipal leadership. We did this through partnerships with community groups and in launching our “She Belongs” event series.

Moving the needle on the representation of women in municipal leadership

In 2020, we launched our flagship program, Prepare Her, and launched supplementary programs, including Mentor Her and Campaign School (in partnership with Equal Voice). Over 140 women participated in these programs. Of these women, 13 ran in the 2021 election for multiple municipalities and for school board trustee. Today, four sit as elected City Councillors, two in Calgary, one in Airdrie and another in Okotoks. 

And this impact doesn’t even cover the dozens more who have been inspired to volunteer on a campaign, work in policy and government, or participate in other forms of community leadership. Or the awareness built in media commentary, events, and social media outreach.