Posted Jul 08, 2008 @ 10:41 AM
Rockford native Patrice Woods, 23, stars in a new documentary as one of seven women who could be president by 2024, but she said last week that she’d first want to try her hand at being a mayor or state legislator.
“I’m not ruling it out,” she said in a telephone interview of an eventual bid for U.S. president. “I want to get my feet wet first, though.”
Woods, a recent graduate of Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, is showcased in “What’s Your Point, Honey?” The movie from the filmmaker of the nationally acclaimed “Mad Hot Ballroom” premieres July 10 in Chicago at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
Appearing in the film with other young women who are goal-focused has been enlightening, Woods said. And she expects the film will encourage young women to see more possibilities for women in politics.
“Why can’t women do these things?” she said. “You can be a leader and have some sort of feminine (qualities).”
Woods, an Auburn High School graduate who was honored in 2002 by the Register Star as a Young American, is working in marketing research at the Disney Institute in Lake Buena Vista, near Orlando, Fla. She said she’d someday like to help open a community center in Rockford where youths can go after school and on weekends for activities and schooling.
A biography of Woods appears at whatsyourpointhoney.com, where you can cast votes in a just-for-fun popularity contest.
The women in the movie were college campus or community leaders. In 2006, they participated in Project 2024. The effort was launched by teen magazine CosmoGirl with support of the White House Project, a group that works to elect women to all levels of political office.
