“ … this moment demands both discipline and heart.”

I’m Carol LaTorre-Elliott, and my role in the community has always been the same: I structure the problem, stabilize the terrain, and architect the first steps so others can execute with clarity. I am a systems thinker, a pattern recognizer, and a long-range strategist. My work lives at the intersection of:

• community resilience,

• economic navigation,

• organizational clarity,

• political readiness,

• and human-centered planning.

I volunteer with UWOC because this moment demands both discipline and heart. Women everywhere are absorbing the shockwaves of political instability, rising costs, caregiving pressure, and eroding institutional trust. We feel it first, and we feel it hardest. I also facilitate Emergency Preparedness classes for the LIGHT Institute where I teach the students how to stay prepared and ready and help ensure your community is safe as well.

My work is grounded in a political humanist framework, which holds that people deserve dignity, communities deserve agency, and women deserve power — not permission.

UWOC is one of the few places where these values are practiced intentionally, courageously, and collaboratively.

 GUIDING PRINCIPLES:

When women organize, authoritarianism loses its power.

When women strategize, communities stabilize.

And when women lead together, the future becomes possible.

Militant compassion. Shared power. Community first.