The crowd gathers for the speakers at the 2019 Women’s March on January 19th, 2019 at Santa Rosa’s Courthouse Square. Photo courtesy of Pat Kerrigan.
Leslie Graves, the organizer of last Saturday’s Women’s March in Santa Rosa’s Courthouse Square, describes Saturday’s march and all of the participants who joined in the festivities, shares some moments from the numerous speakers who attended, talks about the conversations she had with President Trump supporters who attended the event, and addressed the national controversy over the march and whether it affected the event locally: