Westchester County International Day of the Girl Conference (2023)
2023-10-13 08:30 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Manhattanville University (formerly Manhattanville College), Reid Castle, 2900 Purchase Street, Purchase, NY, 10577
Strive to Thrive: Unlocking Your True Potential

The Westchester County Youth Bureau invites high school girls throughout Westchester County to come together to be empowered in celebration of International Day of the Girl. The event will feature engaging and educational workshops, guest speakers, and performances.

LWVW will host a table and deliver a Vote 18 workshop in celebration of International Day of the Girl. Contact westchesterlwv@gmail.com to volunteer.

Youth must be registered by schools to attend this free conference with adult chaperones. Space is limited. Schools can register up to 35 registrants (students and chaperones) on a first come first served basis.

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Endocrine Disruptors in Plastics: State Policy Options
2023-10-03 19:00 - 20:00 | Online
All are welcome on Tuesday, October 3, 2023 at 7pm ET for a free webinar about NYS policy options for addressing endocrine disruptors with John Peterson (Pete) Myers, Ph.D., CEO and Chief Scientist of Environmental Health Sciences, New York State Senator Peter Harckham, Chair of the New York Senate Environmental Conservation Committee, and Megan Wolff, Ph.D., MPH, Policy Director at Beyond Plastics. The event is co-sponsored by LWVW, LWVNYS, Bedford 2030, Climate Reality Project/Westchester, Environment Advocates NY, Federated Conservationists of Westchester County, Mothers Out Front NY, Ethical Society of NY, NYPIRG, Physicians for Social Responsibility NY, Physicians for Social Responsibility PA, Riverkeeper, Plastic Pollution Coalition, Sustainable Westchester, and RAC-NY (Religious Action Center of Reformed Judaism). Elisabeth Radow, chair of the LWVNYS Committee on Energy, Agriculture and the Environment, will introduce the panelists.

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John Peterson Myers

John Peterson (Pete) Myers, Ph.D. is founder, CEO and Chief Scientist of Environmental Health Sciences, a not-for-profit organization that promotes public understanding of advances in scientific research on links between the environment and human health. Dr. Myers holds a doctorate in the biological sciences from the University of California, Berkeley and a BA from Reed College. Along with co-authors Dr. Theo Colborn and Dianne Dumanoski, Myers wrote “Our Stolen Future,” a book (1996) that explores the scientific basis of concern for how contamination threatens fetal development. Dr. Myers is now actively involved in primary research on the impacts of endocrine disruption on human health. He has also served as Board President of the Consultative Group on Biological Diversity, an association of more than forty foundations supporting work on biodiversity, climate, energy and environmental health and board chair of the H. John Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment. In 2016 he received a Laureate Award for Outstanding Public Service from The Endocrine Society, the world’s largest association of medical and research professionals specializing in endocrinology. In November 2016 he received along with 11 others, the first “Champion of Environmental Health Research” award from the National Institutes of Health.

State Senator Peter Harckham

Senator Pete Harckham was elected to the New York State Senate in November 2018, and re-elected in 2020 and 2022—the culmination so far of a distinguished career in public service. Currently, he is chair of the Senate Environmental Conservation Committee.Through his two full terms in office, Harckham has become one of the most productive members of the New York State Senate. He worked to make the 2% Property Tax Cap permanent; delivered record aid to education; and addressed the opioid crisis by doubling minimum treatment times and reducing barriers to life saving treatment.Well-regarded as a champion of the environment, Harckham helped pass the toughest climate protection legislation in the nation, and also introduced legislation, later enacted, requiring all new passenger car and truck sales to be zero emission by 2035 and allowing municipalities to build solar canopies and jumpstart community renewable energy projects. Earlier this year, Governor Kathy Hochul placed Harckham’s landmark wetlands legislation protecting Class C streams statewide, which will safeguard fragile drinking water resources, into her proposed 2023 State Budget.

Megan J. Wolff

Megan J. Wolff, Ph.D., MPHis a public health historian with an eye to using history to inform policy. After receiving her masters and doctorate in public health from Columbia University, she spent over a decade at Weill Cornell Medical College, where she developed a mental health policy initiative within the Department of Psychiatry. She believes that climate change is the greatest threat to health and well-being in contemporary life, and that overproduction of plastics touches on every phase of the climate fight. She lives with her family in New Paltz, New York.

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