Just a few hours until our Twitter party!

Mar 8th, 2011 5:31 PM UTC
By Lorraine Chu

Today is officially International Women’s Day, which means that tonight is finally the Girls’ Night Out Twitter party. Needless to say, we’re pretty excited –- maybe even a little too excited. As you can see from this crazy photo shoot, ONE staffers Malaka Gharib and Erin Hohlfelder (who will be Tweeting on behalf of ONE tonight) had their party hats on and ready to go at 9AM this morning!

And we’ve got even more exciting news – Every Mother Counts’ founder Christy Turlington (@CTurlington), and executive director Erin Thornton (@ETThornton), who specializes is maternal mortality, will be joining us on the panel -– so be sure to look out for their tweets.

So what are some things you can expect from tonight? For starters, we’ll be discussing empowering women, including the great strides that women in Africa have made and the work that still needs to be done. We’ll be sure to include inspiring photos and videos on agriculture, education, health and maternal care throughout the night.

Confused on how a Twitter party works? Check out my post from last week to catch up on all the details so you don’t miss out! Some of us at ONE will be getting together later tonight for the party for a little fun, and Malaka will be tweeting from our ONE handle, @onecampaign while Erin will be tweeting from the policy perspective on her account, @Global_ErinH. So call up some friends, bring out the wine and cheese and join us!

Sign onto your Twitter account tonight from 9 to 11 p.m. EST (8 CT, 7 MT and 6PT) for Girls’ Night Out.

We hope to see you there!

TAGS: International Women's Day, ONE