Jenni Guenther

The Orphan That Danced At The White House Jenni Guenther

Based on a true story of a Wisconsin polio survivor that was orphaned as a young girl. Read the empowering story of Glinda who was left alone in Milwaukee to start a new life on her own. Her legacy was bigger than her body deformed by polio. Glinda's ancestors voted in Wisconsin's first election as original pioneers that settled the state. Glinda as a young mother found herself living in the midst of a 1960s era riot with small children. She would rise from those troubled days of despair and uncertainty to become one of the first female public worker union presidents in Wisconsin. Go behind the hype and Wisconsin Act 10 legislation into the real story of how the courage of one woman wrote the labor contracts and led one of the last great public worker union strikes in a city frozen by fear of a riot. One of the states smallest labor unions of mostly female union members blazed many trails for working women today. A mother, a trail blazing leader raising a family in Milwaukee's Sherman Park had the big dream to dance at the White House.