Enola Aird

Enola Aird
Commercialism and Families

Enola G. Aird is an activist mother. She is currently an affiliate scholar at the Institute for American Values, where she founded and directs the Motherhood Project. The mission of the Motherhood Project is to put motherhood on the national agenda and foster a renewed sense of purpose, passion, and power in the mothering vocation in both the public and private spheres. She is also the convener of the Mothers' Council, a group of mothers of diverse backgrounds and political views, which has set as one of its main objectives "to inspire mothers to fight to change our toxic culture, rather than adapt to it."

Enola was born in the Republic of Panama and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Barnard College and received her law degree from Yale University. After eight years in corporate law practice, Enola left the work force to devote her time to her children. Through her experiences at home, she learned first hand of the extent to which mothering is devalued in American culture. This led her away from the practice of law to a new vocation as an activist mother committed to fighting for the best of all possible worlds for children and the parents who raise them.

She was appointed by Governors O'Neill and Weicker to the Connecticut Commission on Children and elected Chair by its members. She also worked for two years at the Children's Defense Fund, serving as director of its violence prevention program and acting director of its Black Community Crusade for Children.

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