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2010 Public Programs

  • March 3, Free $peech, Corporations and the Futureof Campaign Finance
    Speaker: Amy M. Loprest, Executive Director of the NYC Campaign Finance Board
  • February 25, Fallow Brownfields: Fertile Ground for Affordable Housing?
    Speakers: Dr. Daniel Walsh, director of the newly created NYC Office of Environmental Remediation; Jody Kass, executive director of New Partners for Community Revitalization
  • February 23, Those Crazy Computers! Understanding the Internet
  • February 9, The Complete Count Project, Reaching Every Resident for the 2010 Census
  • February 4, WCC Book Club: "Wonderful Town"
  • January 29, What's Happening in PPC?
  • January 28, Those Crazy Computers!
  • January 21, Tour: Cathedral of St. John the Divine
  • January 14, Conference: Celebrating 75 Years of Social Security; Co-sponsoring organizations: Mount Holyoke Club of NY, WCCNY, Harvard Club of NYC, Roosevelt Institute
  • January 7, WCC’S Film Club: Kramer -vs- Kramer

2009 Public Programs

  • December 15, Holiday Party and Holiday Gift Drive!
  • December 15, Counting Us Out? Why Everyone Should Care About the Census Undercount
  • December 3, WCC’S Book Club: “The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience” by Kirstin Downey
  • December 2, Film Screening: Pray the Devil Back to Hell
  • December 1, What’s Happening With Services to the Elderly?
    Speaker: Lilliam Barrios-Paoli, Department for the Aging Commissioner
  • November 19, Tour: Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School
  • November 17, Meet the Member: Ruth Acker
  • November 10, Who Cares for Caregivers? Panelist: Gail Sheehy, Nationally Known Author & AARP’s Ambassador of Caregiving; Carol Levine, Director, Families & Health Care Project, United Hospital Fund; Moderator: Suzanne Mintz, Founder & CEO of the National Family Caregivers Association
  • November 5, Film Club: "Crossing Delancey" 1988
  • October 29, New York's Immigrants: The 2nd Generation
    Speakers: Dr. Philip Kasinitz, Professor of Sociology at both the CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College, and co-author of "Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age"; and Marisol Ramos, from the New York State Youth Leadership Conference
  • October 27, Reforming Albany: What Is Wrong With the State Legislature and How to Fix It
  • October 16, Tour: A Walk on the Highline; Guide: Matt Postal, historian and co-author of “Ten Architectural Walking Tours in Manhattan”
  • October 13, Alair Townsend - The Economy, One Year Later
  • October 4, Theater Benefit: “Love, Loss & What I Wore”
  • October 1, Book Club - “Appetites: Why Women Want” by Carolyn Knapp
  • September 30, NYC Office of Emergency Management Deputy Commissioner Christina Farrell
  • September 25,Tour: The New Museum of the Chinese in America and a Walk
    Through Chinatown
  • September 14, The View From Washington: Congressman Jerrold Nadler Discusses
    Transportation and What the Reauthorization of SAFETEA-LU, the Federal Transportation Bill, Means for New Yorkers
  • September 10, WCC Film Club: Hester Street, 1975
  • August 31, Open Infrastructure Committee Meeting with Alexandra Fairweather, WCC intern
  • August 27, Member Brown Bag Lunch & Conversation
  • July 29, Tour - From Landfill to Landmark; Fresh Kills Park: A Work in Progress
  • July 16, Frances Perkins: The Woman Behind the New Deal & FDR’s Moral Conscience
    Speaker: Kirstin Downey, Author of the newly published book, “The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience.”
  • July 2, WCC Mentored Middle and High Schoolers on Aactivism
  • June 18, Tour: Manhattan Appellate Courthouse & Walking Tour of Madison Square Park
  • June 16, Quiet Revolution in Our Public Schools: NYC’s Small Schools Initiative
    Panelists: Joseph McDonald, Ed.D., Professor of Teaching & Learning, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education & Human Development; Richard Stopol, President, NYC Outward Bound; Joshua Thomases, Chief Administrative Officer, Office of School Support, NYC Department of Education; Moderator: Ben Shuldiner, Founder, Principal, High School for Public Service; Instructor, Baruch College
  • June 2, Seventh Marie Neuberger Reception & Lecture
    Perspectives on President Obama's Agenda: Addressing the Challenge of Maintaining Health & Social Services in Times of Economic Crisis
    Speaker: Jeanette C. Takamura, M.S.W., Ph.D., Member, Obama Transition Review Team for the U.S. Dep’t. of Health & Human Services, First female and 17th Dean, Columbia University School of Social Work, Assistant Secretary for Aging, U.S. Dep’t. of Health & Human Services 1996-2001
  • May 28, Tour: Galleries of Chelsea
    Guide: Rafael Risemberg, Ph.D., founder, director of New York Gallery Tours
  • May 18, Infrastructure Committee Meeting on WCC's Recycling Project
    Speaker: WCC Intern, Alexandra Fairweather, Columbia University
  • May 11, WCC Annual Meeting with Guest Speaker: Hon. Charles Schumer, United States Senator on “The Impact of the Stimulus Package on NYC and its Services"; Member of the Year: Marilyn Wellemeyer
  • May 7, Meet the Manhattan Borough President: Hon. Scott Stringer
  • April 28, Dr. Robert N. Butler: The Longevity Revolution -- Living Longer, Living Better: News You Can Use; Speakers: Robert N. Butler, M.D., author of The Longevity Revolution, founder of the International Longevity Center, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and founding Director of the National Institute on Aging or the National Institutes of Health.; Carol Raphael, M.P.A., President and Chief Executive Officer, Visiting Nurse Services of New York; co-editor of Home-Based Care for a New Century; Deborah Viola, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Economics and Director, MPH Program in Health Policy and Management, New York Medical College School of Public Health. Moderator: Annette Choolfaian, R.N., M.P.A., Member, WCC Board of Directors and Chair, Health Committee; Prof. & Chair, Health Policy & Mangt. Dept., New York Medical College School of Public Health
  • March 30, Restoring Quality Arts Education to New York City Schools
    Speakers:Ricahrd Kessler, Executive Director, Center for Arts Education; Kira Raffel Street, Director of Public Engagement, Center for Arts Education
  • March 27, Tour: NYC Municipal Archives, City Hall Library, Manhattan Marriage Bureau
  • March, 12, Our Women’s History Month Program: Women In The Military
    Noonie Fortin, 1st Sergeant, U.S. Army Reserves (Retired); Helen Benedict, Author of The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq (non-fiction), and Journalism Professor, Columbia University.
  • February 20, Tour - Worshipping Women: Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens
  • February 18, Police Brutality: In The Ten Years Since...
    Speaker: Dr. Delores Jones-Brown, Professor in the Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration and Director of the Center on Race, Crime and Justice at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice / CUNY
  • February 6, Women & Work: Is the Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty? Moderator: Ronnie Eldridge, Host, Eldridge & Co. CUNY TV, Member of New York City Council, 1989 to 2001. Panelists: Christine Birnbaum, Director of Human Resources and Diversity Director, New York Life Insurance's Asset Management subsidiary; Roslyn Chernesky, DSW, Professor, Fordham University Graduate School of Social Services and Institute for Women and Girls; Mary Murphree, Ph.D., Senior Advisor, Center for Women & Work, Rutgers University; Former Regional Administrator, U.S. Department of Labor, Region II, Women's Bureau.
    Co-Sponsors:The Transition Network; Institute for Women and Girls, Fordham University School of Social Services
  • January 29, Our Water Comes From "Somewhere" Upstate – But How Do We Pay For It?
    Panelists: Lisa Deller, NY Regional Director of the National Equity Fund, an affiliate of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation; Harold Shultz, Senior Fellow, Citizens Housing and Planning Council; Hon. Anne Canty, Deputy Commissioner for Communications and Intergovernmental Affairs, NYC Department of Environmental Protection; Hon. Angela Licata, Deputy Commissioner for Environmental Planning and Analysis, NYC Department of Environmental Protection; Moderator:Ann R. Loeb, Co-Chair, WCC Housing & Planning Committee; Co-Sponsor: HOUSING FIRST!
  • January 22, Is There a NORC / SSP* in Your Future? (*Naturally Occurring Retirement Community / Supportive Service Program)
    Moderator: Barbara Chocky, MPA, WCC board member; Executive Director, Spring Creek Senior Partners NORC/SSP; Panelists: Anita Altman, Deputy Managing Director of Government Relations and External Affairs, UJA/Federation; Fredda Vladeck, LMSW. Dir, Aging-In-Place Initiative, United Hospital Fund

2008 Public Programs

  • December 18, The Foreclosure Crisis - Impact on NYC Neighborhoods
    Moderator: Sarah Gerecke, CEO, Neighborhood Housing Services of NYC; Panelists: Vicki Been, Elihu Root Professor of Law and Professor of Public Policy, NYU, Director, Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy; MICHAEL HICKEY, Exec. Director, Center for NYC Neighborhoods; Sarah Ludwig, Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project
  • December 11, WCC Members Only Holiday Party
  • November 20, Mission Impossible? Reducing Energy Usage 30% by 2017
    Speaker: Hon. Martha Hirst, Commissioner, NYC Dept. of Citywide Administrative Services
  • November 14, Tour: Museum of American Finance
  • November 13, Housing & Planning Committee Meeting - The Impact of the New Water and Sewer Rates on Affordable Housing; Speaker: David Muchnick, Executive Director, Housing First!
  • November 10, Meet the Member: "Heidi" Reavis (co-counsel of WCC and co-Managing Partner of Reavis Parent Lehrer LLP)
  • November 9, Theater Benefit: Farragut North
  • October 30, Covering City Hall
    Speakers: Courtney Gross, City Government Editor, Gotham Gazette; Grace Rauh, NY1; Kate Lucadamo, City Hall Bureau, New York Daily News; Moderator:Sewell Chan, City Room Bureau Chief, The New York Times
  • October 23, Tour: MTA Arts for Transit (Times Square to Grand Central)
  • October 15, WHAT IF ROE v WADE FELL? IMPLICATIONS FOR NEW YORK STATE
    Speakers:HON. LIZ KRUEGER, New York State Senator; member of WCC;DONNA LIEBERMAN, Executive Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union;KATHERINE GRAINGER, VP for Public Policy at NARAL-Pro Choice NY
  • September 18, THE ECONOMIC OUTLOOK FOR NEW YORK CITY - WITH ALAIR TOWNSEND
  • September 11, TRAINING THE PUBLIC SERVICE & LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMUNITY IN NYC
    Speaker: JEREMY TRAVIS, J.D., President, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
  • September 10, Women’s Issues Committee – Guest Speakers on Paid Sick Days
  • August 6, "Lights! Camera! Action!" Filming in NYC
    Speaker: KATHERINE OLIVER, Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting
  • July 29, Tour: New York's Hidden Harbor
  • July 23, Film: City of Water
  • July 17, "Meet the Public Advocate: Hon. Betsy Gotbaum"
  • June 19, “THE WORLD IN A CITY” MEET THE AUTHOR: JOSEPH BERGER
  • June 3, AGE FRIENDLY CITIES: A GLOBAL INITIATIVE COMES TO NEW YORK CITY
    Speakers: ALEXANDRE KALACHE, MSc, MD, PhD, Senior Advisor to the President on Global Aging, New York Academy of Medicine; RUTH FINKELSTEIN, ScD, Vice President for Health Policy, New York Academy of Medicine
  • May 22, ISSUES OF CONCERN: THE MANHATTAN BOROUGH PRESIDENT RESPONDS
    Speaker: PAM ELAM, Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of the Manhattan Borough President
  • May 19, WCC Annual Meeting
    Speaker: The HONORABLE CAROLYN MALONEY, Member, US Congress, 14th District NY, WCC Member and author:Rumors of our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
  • April 28, POVERTY FIGHTING STRATEGIES: PRIORITIES FOR THE NEXT PRESIDENT
    Speakers: Representing Senator Hillary Clinton: New York City Council Member Gale Brewer;
    Representing Senator John McCain: Christopher Cox, Executive Director, Sen. McCain’s NYS Presidential Campaign; Representing Senator Barack Obama: Professor Rachel D. Godsil, Seton Hall Law School; Moderator: ELAINE WALSH, Ph.D., Chair, FASS; Associate Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning; Director, Public Service Scholar Program at Hunter College, CUNY; and WCC Member.
  • April 23, CHANGING HEALTH CARE 2008: INFORMATION LEADING TO ACTION Part Three: BUILDING A BETTER SYSTEM FOR ALL Speakers:PAUL KRUGMAN, Ph.D., New York Times Columnist; Professor, Princeton University; ROBIN WELLS, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Economics, Princeton University; Discussant: ELISABETH R. BENJAMIN, MSPH, JD, Director, NY Healthcare Restructuring Initiatives, Community Service Society of New York
  • April 8, How Will the Coming Fiscal Crisis Affect NYC Public School Children? Speaker: KATHLEEN GRIMM, LL.M., Deputy Chancellor for Admin. & Finance, NYC Dept. of Education
  • March 27, Women’s History Month Program: Self-Help Among Immigrant Women, WELCOME:
    HON. GUILLERMO LINARES, Commissioner, Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs; MODERATOR:CHUNG-WHA HONG, Executive Director, New York Immigration Coalition; PANELISTS: NINAJ RAOUL, Director, Haitian Women United; PURVI SHAH, Executive Director, Sakhi for South Asian Women; SARU JAYARAMAN, Executive Director, Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York; KARINA AYBAR, Domestic Violence Counselor, Dominican Women’s Development Center
  • March 12, Changing Health Care 2008: Information Leading to Action
    Speakers: ROBIN OSBORN, MBA,Vice President and Director, International Program in Health Policy and Practice, The Commonwealth Fund; KATHARINA JANUS, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Public Health , Columbia University; VICTOR RODWIN, Ph.D., Professor of Health Policy & Management , New York University; Moderator: ANNETTE CHOOLFAIAN, R.N., MPA, WCC Member. Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy & Management , New York Medical College; Co-Sponsors: Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service Institute for Women & Girls; New York Medical College School of Public Health; Public Health Association of New York City; Rekindling Reform
  • February 29, Poverty the Forgotten Cause
    Introduction: ELIZABETH LUBETKIN LIPTON, Vice-Chair, WCC Public Policy Committee; past WCC president; Keynote: HON. Liz Krueger, New York State Senator; Panelists: Trudi Renwick, Ph.D., Senior Economist, The Fiscal Policy Institute; Sheila Kamerman, DSW, Professor, Columbia University School of Social Work; Bich Ha Pham, J.D., Director of Policy, Advocacy & Research, Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies and former Executive Director, Hunger Action Network of NYS; Co-Sponsors: Hunter College Public Service Scholar Program, Fund for the Advancement of Social Services, Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies
  • February 21, Working Women's Breakfast
  • February 19, Tour the New Museum
  • February 13, Affordable Housing in NYC: How Far Have We Come? Speakers: HON. SHAUN DONOVAN, Commissioner, NYC Department of Housing Preservation & Development; PRESTON NIBLACK, Ph.D., Deputy Director, Independent Budget Office of the City of NY; DAVID MUCHNICK, Executive Director, Housing First!;BARBARA ZUCKER, Vice President for Public Policy, Women’s City Club of New York. Moderator: Ann R. Loeb , WCC Member; Former Assistant Director, The Settlement Housing Fund. Co-Sponsor: Housing First!
  • January 28, Changing Health Care 2008: Information Leading to Action (a three-part series) Part One: Problems with the US Health Care System. Speakers:JO IVEY BOUFFORD, M.D., President, New York Academy of Medicine, BOB KERREY, President, New School University and former United States Senator. Discussants: SARA R. COLLINS, PH.D., Asst VP & Dir., Program for Future of Health Care, Commonwealth Fund, ROBERT M. HAYES, J.D., President, Medicare Rights Center.
  • January 22, Greening the Code: An Overview & Panel Discussion on the New NYC Construction Codes. Panel Chair: DEBORAH F. TAYLOR, AIA, LEED AP, Chief Sustainability Officer, NYC Department of Buildings. Responders:JOHN E. OSBORN, Partner, John E. Osborn P.C. law firm; RUSSELL UNGER, Executive Director, N.Y. Chapter, U.S. Green Building Council; FIONA COUSINS, Principal, Arup, consulting engineers, designers, planners and project manager. Moderator: FRAN LEVENSON, former Vice President and Chair, Public Policy Committee and Coalition for Homeless Women, WCC.
  • January 20, Theater Benefit: Nathan Lane in NOVEMBER
  • January 8, Tour and Organ Conert at the Historic Central Synagogue

2007 Public Programs

  • December 19, WCC Holiday Party
  • December 14, A Walk to Beautiful - award winning film
  • November 27, Tour: Brooklyn Public Library
  • November 15, Tour: The Solaire - a residential green building
  • November 10-11, Freedom on Our Terms Conference: A New Agenda for Women and Girls 30 Years After the National Women’s Conference
  • November 8, NYC Waterfronts with HON. Jessica Lappin, NYC Council Member
  • October 25, Whatever Happens When Prisoners Are Released?
  • October 18, Identity Theft: A 21st Century Crime
    • Speakers: HON. GALE BREWER, Member, NYC Council & WCC Member;
      HELEN LESIO, Certified Identity Theft Risk Management Specialist
  • September 28, Tour: A Brooklyn Adventure - The Many Faces of Williamsburg with Tour Guide Joe Svehlak
  • September 25, PlaNYC: Meeting New York City’s Long-Term Transporation Needs:
    Investing to Provide More & Better Transit Options
    Reducing Congestion on the City’s Streets
    • Steven Weber, Assistant Commissioner for Strategic Planning, New York City Department of Transportation
  • September 19, The Future of Public Housing in NYC
    • Hon. Rosie Mendez, Member of the New York City Council; Chair, NY City Council Public Housing Subcommittee
  • August 14, Reproductive Justice in New York State with Assembly Member Richard Gottfried
  • July 25, Benefit Screening of Film: From Mao to Mozart
  • July 17, Tour: A Summer's Day on Ellis Island
  • June 20, Tour: Seventh Regiment Armory
  • June 13, Global Warming & Climate Change: Is New York City Up To The Challenge?
    • Rohit Aggarwala, Director, Long-term Planning and Sustainability, Mayor’s Office of Operations
    • Drew Becher, Executive Director, New York Restoration Project
    • Marcia Bystryn, Executive Director, New York League of Conservation Voters
  • June 6, Reforming Albany: Strategies for Success
    • Rachel Leon, Executive Director of Common Cause / NY
  • March 29, Are You A Feminist? A Male Perspective
    • Panelists: William J. Arnone, Esq.
    • James Jacobsen
    • Jack Tuckner, Esq.
    • Moderator: Mary Murphree, Ph.D.
  • March 22, Justice & Dignity: The Impact of Race & Law on American Society
    • Gloria Browne-Marshall, WCC member, author, professor
  • February 13, NY Divided: Slavery & The Civil War at the New-York Historical Society
    • Kathleen Hulser, Public Historian, New-York Historical Society
  • February 2, Tour: Backstage at the Metropolitan Opera
  • January 31, Diversity in the Corporate Workforce with Dr. Kathleen Waldron, President of Baruch College


Carol Smolenski; Marjorie Ives, Chair, WCC Women's Issues Committee; Jane Manning

  • January 9, The Tragedy of Human Trafficking

    • Jane Manning, Equality Now

    • Carol Smolenski, ECPAT – USA

2006

  • December 8, NYC & Its Immigrants: Their Contributions, Costs & Needs

    • Joseph Salvo, Director, Population Division, NYC Dept. of City Planning

    • Azadeh Khalili, NYC Deputy Commissioner of Immigrant Affairs

    • Hon. John Liu, New York City Councilmember

    • Michele Buono, Goddard-Riverside Community Center

    • Sapna Pandya, NYU Center for Immigrant Health

    • Alan Kaplan, New York Immigration Coalition

    • Moderator: Dr. Hector Cordero-Guzman, CUNY Center for Urban Research

  • December 1, Tour: Instituto Cervantes


    Jill Stevens, FPWA; Prof. Mimi Abramovitz; Hon. Liz Krueger

  • November 16, Straight Talk About Taxes:

    • Mimi Abramovitz, Professor, Hunter College School of Social Work

    • Liz Krueger, NY State Senator

  • November 9, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer

  • November 3, Tour: Ground Zero & Tribute Center

  • November 1, This Year at WCC (an informational & social event)

  • October 16, Theater Benefit: Play It By Ear at Birdland

  • October 18, Hon. Christine Quinn, Speaker, NY City Council

  • October 12, A Very Special Membership Meeting & Tour

  • October 3, CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein

  • September 28, Tour: Gangs of New York

  • September 20, Running Elections in America's Largest City
    In association with NYC’s Voters Assistance Commission, Voter Awareness Month

    • John Ravitz, Executive Director, Board of Elections in the City of NY


    John Ravitz; Marjorie K. Shea, WCC Elections Specialist

  • September 14, Three Men in a Room:
    The Inside Story of Power and Betrayal in an American Statehouse

    • Former State Senator Seymour Lachman

  • August 15, Tour: NY Public Library

  • July 25, Tour: St. Patrick's Cathedral

  • June 20, What Ever Happened To Good Government?
    The Role of Government vs. Privatization

  • June 6, New York's Troubled Family Court: Can It Be Fixed?

  • May 24, Public Authority Reform: The Next Steps

  • May 3, Shocks and Their Aftermath: 9/11 and New York:
    Recovery in the economy, the workforce, the community the challenges that lie ahead

    • Howard Chernick, author of “Resilient City: The Economic Impact of 9/11”

    • Cordelia Reimers, contributing author, “Resilient City: The Economic Impact of 9/11”

    • Nancy Foner, author of “Wounded City: The Social Impact of 9/11”

  • April 4, Non-Citizens & The Right to Vote: What are the issues?

    • Moderator: Tova Andrea Wang, Senior Program Officer and Democracy Fellow, The Century Foundation

    • Panelists: Ron Hayduk, Co-Director, Immigrant Voting Project, author of Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the United States; Professor of Social Sciences at Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY

    • Rodolfo de la Garza, Ph.D. Faculty Fellow Political Science, Columbia University; former Vice-President of the American Political Science Association

  • March 23, Triangle: The Fire That Changed America

    • David Von Drehle, Washington Post reporter and author


    Are You a Feminist?
    An Intercultural Perspective

  • March 7, Are You a Feminist? An Intercultural Perspective

    • Panelists: Nurah Jeter Amat’ullah, Founder and Director, Muslim Women’s Institute for Research and Development

    • Zenaida Mendez, Director of Racial Diversity Programs, National Organization for Women Foundation

    • Nicole Smith, Outreach Coordinator, East Harlem, Washington Heights, Inwood Partnerships for Parks

    • Helen Wang, Assistant Director, Women’s Rights at Work, Citizen’s Action NY

    • Moderator: Gloria Browne-Marshall, Executive Director, The Law and Policy Group; Assistant Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

    • Presented in collaboration with the YWCA of the City of NY

  • February 16, The Power of One in the Movement for Justice

    • Peggy Shepard, Executive Director of the West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc; Recipient of the 10th Annual Heinz Award for the Environment; first female chair of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council to the US EPA and co-chair of the Northeast Environmental Justice Network; former President of the National Women’s Political Caucus – Manhattan. Ms. Shepard shared her knowledge, understanding and challenges that led her to found NY’s first environmental justice organization dedicated to building community power to fight environmental racism and improve environmental health, protection and policy in communities of color.

  • February, 9, William Taylor, Esq., "The Passion of My Times"

  • January 19, New York City Council Member John C. Liu

  • January 11, 90th Birthday Party at Gracie Mansion

2005

  • December 13, The Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

    • Greg Anrig, Vice-President For Programs, The Century Foundation

    • Dr. Heidi Hartmann, President, Institute For Women’s Policy Research

    • Dr. Sandra Turner, Associate Dean, Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service

  • November 17, The Next Four Years: Framing the Mayoral Agenda

    • David J. Fischer, Project Director, Center for an Urban Future

    • Chris Jones, Vice President for Research, Regional Plan Association

    • Alyssa Katz, Editor at Large, City Limits

    • Andrew White, Director, Center for New York City Affairs, The New School

  • November 1, The Artist as Citizen

    • Dr. Joseph Polisi President, The Julliard School of Music

  • October 27, New Medicare Prescription Drug Plans Go Into Effect January 2006

    • Debra Smith, Outreach Coordinator, Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

    • Lani Sanjek, Acting Executive Director, NY StateWide Senior Action Council

  • October 19, Fifth Marie Neuberger Memorial Lecture & Reception: DNA Exonerations as a Learning Moment

    • Barry Scheck, Co-Founder & Co-Director, Innocence Project; Professor, Benjamin Cardozo School of Law

    • Eleanor Jackson Piel, Esq., WCC Council since 1969; Civil Rights and Criminal Justice Lawyer

  • September 27, Behind the Scenes at the WCC (New Member Orientation)

  • September 14, Are you a Feminist? An Intergenerational Dialogue

    • Moderator: Noreen Connell, Executive Director of Educational Priorities Panel; Past President, NOW-NYS; Past President, NOW-NYC

    • Amy Adelman, Esq., Assistant Counsel, New York City Fire Department

    • Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, co-authors of Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and The Future, and Grassroots: A Feminist Guide to Activism

    • Barbara Chocky, Executive Director, Spring Creek Senior Partners

  • August 17, Emergency Contraception

    • Assemblymember Richard Gottfried

    • Destiny Lopez, Director, Emergency Contraception Access Campaign, NARAL Pro-Choice New York

  • July 13, The Women of Saudi Arabia

    • Rita Henley Jensen, Editor, Women's Enews

  • June 9, Calling 311

    • Gino Menchini, New York City Commissioner of Information Technology and Telecommunications

  • June 2, On The Waterfront

    • Phillip Lopate, Professor and Author

  • May 26, WCC Annual Meeting

  • May 20, Meet the Legislators

    • Hon. Michael Gianaris, Member, NY State Assembly

  • May 10, Solid Facts About Solid Waste

    • NYC Councilmember Michael McMahon

    • Mark Izeman, Natural Resources Defense Council

    • Preston Niblack, Independent Budget Office

  • April 28, Meet the Legislators

    • Hon. Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn Borough President

  • April 19, The Island at the Center of the World

    • Russell Shorto, Author

  • April 8, The Social Security Debate: Impact on Women

    • Congressional Representative Jerrold Nadler

    • William J. Arnone, National Academy of Social Insurance

    • Susan Chamberlin, The Cato Institute

    • Natalie Gordon, DSW, AARP, National Legislative Council

    • Lani Sanjek, NY StateWide Senior Action Council

  • March 23, We Honor Shirley Chisholm

    • NYC Councilmember Yvette Clarke

    • Former Congressional Representative Elizabeth Holtzman

  • March 16, Women in the Sciences: The X-Chromosome Factor

    • Laura Chang, Science Editor of New York Times

    • Bonnie Kaiser, Ph.D., Director of Pre-college Science Education Program at Rockefeller University

    • WCC member Rita Louard, M.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Director, Clinical Diabetes Program at Montefiore Medical Center

  • February 24, How Can We Meet the Need for Affordable Housing?

    • Rafael Cestero, Deputy Commissioner, NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development

    • Robert Ezrapour, NY State Association for Affordable Housing

    • Brad Lander, Pratt Inst. Center for Community and Environmental Development

  • February 17, Civil Rights Voting Rights: Past and Present

    • Gloria Browne-Marshall, J.D. The Law and Policy Group

    • Dr. Carolyn Goodman, mother of slain civil rights activist, Andrew Goodman

  • February 8, The Working Poor: Invisible in America

    • David Shipler, Author

  • January 21, Meet the Legislators

    • Hon. C. Virginia Fields, Manhattan Borough President

  • January 20, Civics in the Schools

    • Carmen Fariña, Deputy Chancellor for Teaching and Learning, NYC Department of Education

    • Co-sponsored with Educational Priorities Panel and hosted by The College Board

 

2004

  • December 15, Campaign to Reform Albany

    • Jeremy Creelan, The Brennan Center

    • NYS Assemblymember, Scott Stringer

    • Barbara Bartoletti, League of Women Voters

  • December 9, Immigrants, Politics and the Ethnic Press

    • Abby Scher, Independent Press Association

    • Veena Merchant, News India Times

    • Marina Shapiro, Russian Bazaar

  • November 17, Up From Zero: Politics, Architecture and the Rebuilding of New York

    • Paul Goldberger, Author

  • November 11, The Well Being of New York’s Children

    • Commissioner John Mattingly, NYC Administration for Children’s Services

  • October 26, Dr. Louise Mirrer, President, New-York Historical Society

  • October 20, Health Care Reform and the November Elections

    • Bruce Vladeck, Ph.D. Professor of Health Policy and Geriatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Director, Institute of Medical Practice and Senior Vice President for Policy, Mount Sinai/NYU Health.

  • September 30, Meet the Legislators

    • Hon. Letitia James, Member of the New York City Council

  • September 21, Are We Ready for the November Elections?

    • Kele Williams, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law

    • Steven Carbo, Demos Democracy Project

    • Co-sponsored by NYC branch, American Association of University Women

  • August 10, Prescription Drug Discount Cards: For Better or Worse

    • Robert Hayes, President, Medicare Rights Center

  • July 28, Randy Cohen: “The Ethicist,” The New York Times