Rebecca Ballard

Sustainable fashion adviser. ❤️ DC + global explorations. Wife @johnrmeans + mom Nathan & Lily.

[Rebecca Ballard @ERebeccaBallard]

Super proud of my son and anti-climate change advocate, Nathan!

Thanks for supporting our advocacy @cleanairmoms_DC!

[Washington, DC Area Moms @CleanAirMoms_DC]

“I just graduated kindergarten and I know dirty cars make bad air and causes climate change. Cars should have batteries with wind and solar. Solar is the best of them all!” - 6 yr old Nathan from DC🌞

He submitted his first @EPA comment today on clean cars🚗🚕🚙 @CleanAirMoms

You can make your voice heard too by submitting a comment to @EPA here: https://t.co/koqbLCRDgg

[Rebecca Ballard @ERebeccaBallard]

Last time we were this close to a shooting was Zoolights 2020. We ran from the sound of shots with a two year old and baby in a stroller, and hid behind an apartment building near the trash cans.

[Rebecca Ballard @ERebeccaBallard]

Shooting at 14th and U tonight, shortly after we left that block for a Father’s Day dinner. Four people shot, one dead. A juvenile. It’s sickening

For our family I worry far more about gun and traffic violence than I do about Covid.

[Rebecca Ballard @ERebeccaBallard]

@PolenbergM @ModelAllianceNY @saraziff @syddgio Congrats @ModelAllianceNY and @saraziff!

[Rebecca Ballard @ERebeccaBallard]

Officer Tommy embodies the values of our community and is a wonderful role model for our kids. I feel so blessed to have Tommy looking after Nathan + his school buds every day they go to @RossESDC.

Thanks @johnrmeans + @AncMeg for facilitating!

[John Means @johnrmeans]

The highlight of my year joining the @ANC2B meeting celebrating Officer Tommy and sharing his commendation from @MayorBowser @DDOTDC for 15 years of dedication to #safestreets at @RossESDC in Dupont Circle. Thanks @AncMeg for facilitating.

[Matthew Holden @_MatthewThomas]

We’ve built a society that values driving over almost everything else and this is the result.

[Jesse Rabinowitz 🔥🌹@jesserbnwtz.bsky.social @jesserbnwtz]

NEWS: DC just added homelessness as a protected class to DC's overarching human rights legislation.

This took years of work. Thank you to @WashingtonPffc for leading the charge and thank you @RobertWhite_DC for getting it across the finish line.

[John Means @johnrmeans]

New crosswalk striping and double backed stop signs. Appreciate these first steps to safer streets near @RossESDC @ANC2B. Need to get the street safety and #saferoutestoachool bills passed into law to see faster, bigger change across DC. @DDOTDC @councilofdc

[Reshma Saujani @reshmasaujani]

Big day! #MarshallPlanForMoms just released our report on the Business Case for Child Care, and announced a new National Business Coalition for Child Care with leaders from across industries.

https://t.co/XTj5kbIgkd

[Rebecca Ballard @ERebeccaBallard]

@reshmasaujani @Alisha__g @nytimes @patagonia @synchrony @McKinsey @CareDotCom @gibsondunn This is amazing news! Please let me know how I can support.

[Rebecca Ballard @ERebeccaBallard]

Major, exciting news! I’m thrilled that @MavenWomen and #TheFashionConnection are early endorsers of the FABRIC Act.

I have worked in advocacy and sustainability for over a decade, and I’ve never felt more momentum than this moment.

@byTheresaVargas @SojoAction @DCist

[Vogue Runway @VogueRunway]

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand will introduce the first federal fashion bill; the Fashioning Accountability and Building Real Institutional Change (FABRIC) Act looks to extend California’s anti-wage theft laws on a national level https://t.co/xyG7EMeBtC

[GarmentWorkerCenter @GarmentWorkerLA]

“Now we can live a little less suffocated,” she says. “It really impacted not just garment workers, but encouraged other workers and other institutions that it’s possible to win something that you strive for.” @remakeourworld @BetTzedek @SenMariaEDurazo

https://t.co/g0CwJOscNG

[John Means @johnrmeans]

Wonderful #biketoschool day in DC. Nathan and Lily were ready to head to @RossESDC. Let’s accelerate #Saferoutestoschool.

[John Means @johnrmeans]

Thanks @DCPoliceDept for joining us on #BikeToSchoolDay at @RossESDC. Nathan was thrilled to check out your bikes! @ERebeccaBallard

[Rebecca Ballard @ERebeccaBallard]

As @reshmasaujani shared, women have worked hard to be in the workforce. Since they got a taste of in during WWII they haven’t wanted to give it up. My grandmothers loved working!

This is another ginormous step backwards for women’s workforce participation, which hurts us all.

[Reshma Saujani @reshmasaujani]

Who is crying wolf now? They are coming for women. Repro rights, economic participation, all of it.

It's time to fight.

https://t.co/AnwV9IKk7o

[Reshma Saujani @reshmasaujani]

There is nothing “pro-life” or “pro-mom” about overturning #RoeVWade. If they really cared about moms and our children they would make it easier to access abortion care and they’d bring paid leave and affordable child care to the U.S. They’d support a #MarshallPlanForMoms.

[Rebecca Ballard @ERebeccaBallard]

Four years of Trump. Then lockdowns and childcare closing, which didn’t happen in many other countries and whose effects were disproportionately borne by mothers. Now this. (4/4)

[Rebecca Ballard @ERebeccaBallard]

I’ve Roe and personally, I don’t think it’s the best legal reasoning. However, there has to be a better way forward than this semi-Handmaid’s Tale. (3/4)

[Rebecca Ballard @ERebeccaBallard]

I’ve had friends with desperately wanted pregnancies that weren’t viable have their terminations classified as “abortions”.

The pandemic already set women back to the 1980s. This is a step much, much further. (2/4)

[Rebecca Ballard @ERebeccaBallard]

My pregnancies were planned, in my 30s, after marriage of many years, when we had financial resources. Even w/ stability I needed info. and options. I needed to know I could terminate if things were not looking good, and info. to help me understand if that were the case. (1/4)