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At Machias Savings Bank,
LuAnn Ballesteros has a
similar observation as the only
woman on an eight-member
board where she does not at all
feel like a token.
"It's one thing to have a
seat at the table," she says. "It's
another having your opin-
ion and your words accepted.
at's the Holy Grail."
Bangor Savings Bank Board Vice Chair Gena
Canning feels equally supported, both by the woman
she replaced and the two other current female board
members: "I feel it's really important for women
to support one another," she says. "We've got a lot
of ground to catch up on in terms of get-
ting women in leadership here in Maine and
across the country."
R e n e e C o r d e s , M a i n e b i z s e n i o r w r i t e r, c a n b e
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Katherine Coster, photographed outside
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April 2018. She is one of three women on
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F O C U S
It's one thing to have a seat at
the table. It's another having
your opinion and your words
accepted. That's the Holy Grail.
— LuAnn Ballesteros
Machias Savings Bank board member
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