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National Priorities: How Women Make a Difference By Jamie Levine It was an alluring topic: The Money Game in Time of War. The speakers, Massachusetts state senator Sue Tucker and Dr. Cindy Williams, Senior Fellow of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, certainly knew their subject. Sen. Tucker alarmed everyone about the budget shortfalls that all states face in the wake of September 11 and as result of the “war on terror.” Dr. Williams presented a comprehensive analysis of the allocation of federal emergency funds after September 11, asserting that “the budgetary choices that we make as a nation are in some sense the purest expression of our national priorities.”
 Left to right: Dr. Cindy Williams; Sayre Sheldon, WAND president emerita; MA state Sen. Sue Tucker; and Susan Shaer, WAND executive director. Photo by Marilyn Humphries. The second event of WAND Education Fund's annual speaker series in Massachusetts was Inside the West Wing: Women Do Make a Difference, which featured Betsy Myers, former director of the White House Office for Women’s Initiatives and Outreach. Ms. Myers described her experiences directing this office and spoke about the positive changes that occur when women take their rightful places at the policymaking table. The office was closed by President Bush early in his term.
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