Dianne Post

Dianne Post graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1969 with a BA in correctional administration, from California State University, San Jose in 1973 with an MS in psychology, and from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1979 with a J.D. She has worked in fields, in factories, in stores, and in a trucking company – the only thing she never did was waitressing, though she was a bartender! As a lawyer, she represented battered women and children for 18 years and then moved to international human rights doing gender-based violence work and representing the Roma to the current day. She was active in the LGBT movement for years until they lost their way. She is currently facilitator for the Central AZ National Lawyers Guild, treasurer for Central Phoenix Inez Casiano NOW, facilitator for Arizona Justice Alliance, legislative liaison for State NOW, and on the ERA Task Force AZ board. In her spare time, she grows organic vegetables and reads.

Get Paid for Your Overtime!

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A new labor department rule goes into effect July 1, 2024.  The new policy will impact 4.3 million workers who are on salary and so don’t get paid overtime.  If you are one of them or know one of them, listen up. The Labor Department is enforcing the Fair Labor Standards Act requirement regarding minimum wage and … Read more

Venture Capital Fund Banned from Helping Black Women.

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Fearless Fund is a venture capital firm that makes small grants of $20,000 exclusively to Black women entrepreneurs of small business.  In 2022, Black women received less than 1% of the $288 billion that venture capital firms handed out to business.  Much like the marijuana licenses in AZ, meant to be for those who suffered when marijuana … Read more

Black Home Ownership in Arizona

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At the Arizona Legislative Black Caucus meeting on March 18, 2024, chaired by Representative Quanta Crews, the Arizona Office of Economic Opportunity outlined detailed data from the 2020 census about Black population and homeownership in Arizona.  Persons who identified in the category of “Black or African American alone” was 317,161. That totals 4.4% of the … Read more

Republicans – the Party of Business No More.

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For the second session in a row, Republicans in the state legislature have introduced bills to prohibit consideration of Environmental, Social, and Governance issues (ESG) by government investments (SB1013) or financing institutions (SB1014 and SB1167). All three bills were passed by the Senate on party lines, and SB1013 has been passed by the House Government … Read more

Wage Gap and Reproductive Rights

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March 12, right in the middle of Women’s History Month and four days after International Women’s Day, was Equal Pay Day. Women must work until March 12 to catch up to what white men were paid by December 31, 2023. Women are still paid 78% of white men’s pay, with little change seen since the … Read more