Colleen Ryan
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Colleen Ryan
@cmrcomms.bsky.social
Principal, CMR Communications, certified as a Women’s Business Enterprise by NYS in 2020. Doing my small part to lift vulnerable populations by providing association management, grant writing and strategic communications for the nonprofits that serve them.
– so if women were now the enemy I could see why they might have been targeted; but being in real estate or litigation or estate law or corporate law appeared to offer no protection. All that was necessary was a law degree and a uterus: a lethal combination.”

This is not a drill.
April 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
until she “came around” to her captors’ way of thinking. So were dozens of other women.

“Of the others in our section, I learned little. Their names, sometimes. The names of their firms. Some firms had specialized in domestic work – divorces, child custody, and so forth ...
April 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
and that the state of emergency would soon be over. That was correct, but not in the way we’d assumed.”

The character we would come to know as Aunt Lydia was snatched out of her office, sent to a detention center, kept in squalid conditions, witnessed executions, and endured beatings ...
April 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
“My arrest came shortly after the Sons of Jacob attack that liquidated Congress. Initially we were told it was Islamic terrorists: a National Emergency was declared, but we were told that we should carry on as usual, that the Constitution would shortly be reinstated ...
April 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
If you’re familiar with the book or the Hulu TV series, you’re familiar with Aunt Lydia, who backs up the distorted religious ideology of Gilead with a cattle prod. The Testaments tells us the origin story of the Aunts.

They were Judges. Law Clerks. Attorneys.
April 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Hi - I'd be grateful if you would send the Zoom link. I've been writing a lot for my clients lately about seeds AND resilience!
April 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Let’s continue to work to remind everyone of the vital work CDFIs do across NYS and across the country! #SAVEtheCDFIFund www.canva.com/design/DAGjV...
April 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Share this flyer when you’re “out and about” – hand it out, wave it around, display it in your car / office / home window, tape it to a bigger sign, pin it to the back of your shirt – whatever! And share pictures of it in the wild!
April 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
CDFIs continue to meet enormous market demand, providing capital for housing, small business, and community revitalization. Support from the CDFI Fund allows NYS CDFIs to maximize our impact in New York's low-income areas - urban, rural and everywhere in between.
April 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM