Meet Our Summer Intern Katy Hergenreter

Hi! My name is Katy Hergenreter, and I am beyond excited to be an intern in the Young Women for America (YWA) department at Concerned Women for America (CWA) this summer. I am from Charlotte, North Carolina, and was raised in a Christian conservative household where I was homeschooled from kindergarten to 12th grade. After […]

On Mathematics and Biblical Womanhood

By Andrea Silvera, YWA Ambassador in Charlotte, North Carolina “It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.” Sofia Kovalevskaya In the midst of the seemingly chaotic appearance of equations and solutions in mathematics, something extraordinary emerges: a vibrant choreography of logical sequences that rhyme with life. As a Christian and […]

Women Deserve Better than What the FDA Has Given Us

By Sara Smith, YWA Ambassador in North Dakota The case Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been making headlines recently as a district court in Texas granted a stay of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of mifepristone (a.k.a. the abortion pill). Though the Supreme Court has allowed mifepristone […]

In the Wake of Dobbs, What Can We Do?

By YWA Ambassador Sierra M. Welch at North Central University Recently, our country experienced an incredible Supreme Court decision which was the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision. The Dobbs decision stated that “the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is […]

Save Women’s Sports with Riley Gaines and YWA Clemson

On Wednesday, April 19, the Young Women for America (YWA) Chapter at Clemson University hosted 12x NCAA All-American swimmer and Independent Women’s Forum Spokeswoman Riley Gaines to speak on the importance of keeping female sports for females only. Riley shared her experience of national titles and achievement recognition being stolen from her by male swimmer […]

House Passes the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-California) and other House Republican leaders held a press conference after passing legislation banning transgender women from participating in women’s and girls’ schools’ sports leagues that receive federal funding by a vote of 219-203. Concerned Women for America’s CEO and President, Penny Nance,  and Young Women for America and NCAA volleyball player, […]

YWA Leader-Athletes Mentioned by Epoch Times

In an article in The Epoch Times, YWA chapter president Chloe Satterfield and YWA ambassador Macy Petty were interviewed about experiences they have had as female athletes competing against male athletes in women’s sports competitions, as well as the advocacy work they’ve done on this topic: “People were protesting across the street from me and […]

The War We Must Wage to Save Our Babies

Baby in womb

By YWA Ambassador Sierra M. Welch at North Central University 63,459,781 dead. And many, many more unaccounted for. We are witnessing the genocide of our most precious and vulnerable citizens under the banner of “Choice,” “Bodily Autonomy,” and “Women’s Rights.” Many in this country have traded cheap phrases for the lives of those given no […]

Two Flags We Ought to Fly

By Sierra M. Welch, YWA Ambassador at North Central University In the United States of America, we have the honor and privilege to live in a country that has been founded on the fundamental understanding that every human life has inherent meaning, worth, and value. Our constitution declares our right as individuals to peaceful protest, […]

We Don’t Need a Plan C

By Paige Nelson, YWA Ambassador Imagine yourself at twenty-years-old living on your college campus. After taking a pregnancy test, you are completely overwhelmed by the results and unable to face your new reality. In an attempt to find sanctuary and collect your thoughts, you wander into one of the bathroom stalls between classes. You can’t […]

Waiting for our Blessed Hope, I Will Stand for Life

By YWA Ambassador Sarah Prentice, State University of New York Brockport In American politics today, one of the most hot-button and contentious issues is abortion. Whether one is pro-choice or pro-life, a discussion about this topic is sure to ruffle everyone’s feathers. It can even be divisive among the Christian community. According to Pew Research […]

Strengthening the Unity Between the Generations

Concerned Women for America & Young Women for America WORKING TOGETHER “These older women must train the younger women …” Titus 2:4 Strengthening the Unity Between the GenerationsBy Dilonna Coran, State Director, Concerned Women for America of Pennsylvania There is much pressure to keep the next generation of women from living out their faith. They […]

“What is a Woman?” YWA Ambassador Hosts CWA Senior Advisor on Campus to Discuss

On Tuesday, March 21, 2023, Young Women for America (YWA) Ambassador, Anna Young, hosted an event centered around the topic “What is a Woman” through Quaestus at her school, Concordia University in Wisconsin. Quaestus is a student-led liberty, faith, and economics journal which focuses on encouraging students to have civil discourse surrounding topics such as […]

YWA Ambassador Testifies on Texas Girls’ Sports Bill

On March 13, 2023, Young Women for America Ambassador Noelle Fitchett testified in front of the Texas Senate State Affairs Committee Hearing on SB 15, a bill that would prohibit biological males from competing in female college athletics. From competing in soccer and dance in high school, as well as having three younger brothers, Noelle […]

YWA Testifies on Kansas Female Sports Bill

On March 6, 2023, Young Women for America (YWA) ‘s Southern Regional Coordinator Julia Campbell testified before the Kansas Senate Committee on Education Hearing in support of HB 2238, a bill presented to ensure that all athletes in female sports are indeed biological females. Though Julia is no longer an athlete, she did dance for […]

YWA Rutherford County Hosts Pro-Life Event

YWA Rutherford County Hosts Pro-Life Event On Monday, March 6, our Young Women for America (YWA) Rutherford County, Tennessee, chapter president Hannah Faulkner hosted a Culture of Life Banquet to highlight pro-life organizations, hear from pro-life speaker Victoria Robinson, and participate in a special offering for Portico, a local pregnancy center. More than seventy-five people, […]

Not Unto Death

By Sarah Merly, YWA Ambassador at Patrick Henry College Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. So the sisters sent to Him, saying, “Lord, […]

Local Bookstore Hosts Book Reading with a Drag Queen

By Young Women for America Ambassador, Hannah Gebhardt   On Saturday, February 11, local Morganton, North Carolina, business Adventure Bound Books hosted the Rainbow Readers Story Time event. The store invited young readers to “Join us as we welcome local Drag Queen Chloe Capri to the story time stage to read The You Kind of […]

Out Now: National Girls & Women in Sports Day with Macy Petty and Chloe Satterfield

On National Girls and Women in Sports Day, Young Women for America leaders Macy Petty and Chloe Satterfield joined Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-California) on a panel with fellow female athletes to share their stories about being forced to compete against biological males. Shortly after the panel, Macy and Chloe joined Concerned Women […]