Wisdom, Wine and Women | July 10, 2025 | Legislative Wrap up

Start: 2025-07-10 19:00:00 UTC Central Daylight Time (US & Canada) (GMT-05:00)

This is a virtual event

Join 10000 Women and advocates from around Louisiana to discuss the outcomes of legislation in the 2025 Legislative Session! Find out what passed and how it will affect you. You can find all the bills we are tracking and working on our Bill Tracker.

Our special guests are:

Crystal Rommen

As a licensed clinical social worker, homeschool mom, and physician spouse, Crystal Rommen brings a diverse background to her position as director of Louisiana Families for Vaccines. She graduated with her MSW from the University of Washington in Seattle with a concentration in Community Centered Integrative Practice. She has worked in direct client practice for the past 13 years, expanding her role to include community organizing and advocacy. Her work spans inpatient, outpatient, and community levels of care for individuals and groups throughout the lifespan. She is passionate about the intersection of public health education and social justice advocacy to empower individuals and communities to improve social determinants of health.

Susan East Nelson

Susan East Nelson is the Executive Director of the Louisiana Partnership for Children and Families, the only statewide organization connecting child-serving organizations together to advocate for better outcomes for all children. She is past Chair of the Children’s Cabinet Advisory Board and sits on a number of legislatively organized panels charged with improving childhood wellbeing. Ms. Nelson also served on the Research Advisory Committee for several Louisiana ALICE Reports and serves on the Louisiana Anti-Hunger Coalition.

Michelle Erenberg

Michelle Erenberg has worked as a policy advocate, community organizer, and coalition coordinator for more than a decade. Her past work experience includes community organizing for Planned Parenthood in New Orleans, coordinating a diverse coalition of environmental, community and faith-based organizations across the Gulf Coast in response to the 2010 BP oil spill, and analyzing and educating the public about policies and public engagement opportunities related to ecological and community recovery and restoration. She previously served as a board member with the National Council of Jewish Women Greater New Orleans Section. In 2016, she co-founded Lift Louisiana, to educate, advocate and litigate to protect reproductive rights. She is a recipient of the 2022 Jane Bagley Lehman Award for her work fighting for reproductive justice. Erenberg has a BA in Psychology from Loyola University New Orleans and an MPA in Nonprofit Management from the University of New Orleans.

Dietz

Dietz (any pronoun used with respect) is currently the Statewide Coordinator for the Louisiana Coalition on Criminalization and Health (LCCH). Dietz began working in public health as a patient navigator in 2011, and has provided over a decade of complex clinical care coordination for people who are living with HIV and gender diverse folk in both Louisiana and the Bay Area, California. Over the last 4 years, Dietz has shifted primarily to policy work, using data and their own clinical experiences to educate Louisiana legislators about the realities of health disparities within marginalized communities. Dietz is a passionate advocate who strives to strengthen community collaborations through shared compassion and expressions of liberatory courage.

Frankie Robertson

Frankie Robertson has worked in public administration for more than two decades. Her maternal and child health work spans over a decade and began as the state director of the Louisiana Chapter of March of Dimes. During her tenure as state director, her talented team partnered with key stakeholders on successful statewide initiatives such as the 39 Weeks Initiative, Group Prenatal Care, Baby and Me Tobacco Free, and Go the Full 40. Frankie has an unwavering and unapologetic commitment to social justice and equity. She is passionate about maternal mental health, addressing toxic stress, and experienced the premature birth of her daughter, Zoe Amandla, at 28 weeks gestation. She applies her experiences as an activist mom of a Black son and a preemie, coupled with training as a birth doula and education in structural racism, to advance policies to address the root causes of health inequities for Black birthing people.

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