Carolyn McKecuen

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Carolyn McKecuen is President of the Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Foundation. [1] [2] She supported Take our Daughters to the Polls as a non-partisan initiative. [3] She is founder and director of Watermark, a member-owned craft cooperative. [4] [5] [6] [7]

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  2. "Girls' Work-Day Event Grows up, Moves on". 24 April 2007.
  3. "The White House Project - Press Release". Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2010-05-06.
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