LWVW Voting and Disabilities Rights Special Event
2024-03-14 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Online
LWVW Voting and Disabilities Rights Special EventCo-sponsored by Westchester Disabled on the Move, Inc.Rise Up People with Disabilities and Vote!Don’t let others decide your futureThursday, March 14, 2024 at 7pmRegister for Zoom Webinar

All are welcome to attend this free webinar about NYS voting rights with an emphasis on those with disabilities.

Panelists

Julia Solow, Lead New York State Organizer at Hand in Hand: The Network for Domestic Employers

Martin Cahill, Legislative Chair for the American Council of the Blind of New York (ACBNY) and Vice President of the Westchester Chapter

Donna Drumm, Assistant Professor, Legal Studies, Mercy University

LWVW President Kathy Meany will moderate the discussion.

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LWVW Holiday Luncheon (2023)
2023-12-14 12:00 - 14:00 | Manhattanville University (formerly Manhattanville College), East Library in Reid Castle, 2900 Purchase Street, Purchase, NY, 10577
Save the date for LWVW’s annual Holiday Luncheon! Mix and mingle with LWVW members and friends and then sit down to eat and enjoy listening to our featured speaker engage in casual conversation with LWVW President Kathy Meany.

Featured Speaker: Westchester District Attorney Miriam (Mimi) Rocah*

Miriam (Mimi) Rocah

*Westchester County District Attorney Miriam E. Rocah has dedicated her life to pursuing justice for victims, keeping our communities safe, and working for a fairer criminal justice system for all. Guided by the principles of safety, accountability, integrity and justice, DA Rocah leads an office with more than 120 Assistant District Attorneys, 34 investigators, and about 90 support personnel. As a daughter of victims of violent crimes, DA Rocah, who had a successful 16½-year career as a federal prosecutor, is dedicated to fighting gun violence and extremism while investing in crime prevention and mental health programs. DA Rocah served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Department of Justice from 2001 to 2017 in the Southern District of New York (SDNY), where she oversaw the prosecution of organized crime, gun traffickers, corrupt public officials, narcotics dealers, sex traffickers, and child predators. She is a recipient of the 2016 Women in Federal Law Enforcement Leadership Award. Under President Obama, she was promoted in 2012 by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara to Chief of the DOJ’s Westchester Division. In that position, she served as primary liaison with law enforcement agencies and other prosecutorial offices including the Westchester County District Attorney’s office, and coordinated and co-chaired multi-county task forces on specific public health and safety issues like the opioid overdose epidemic. She has organized and led numerous forums in Westchester County on public corruption, sexual abuse and domestic violence, and cybercrimes. DA Rocah was elected Westchester County District Attorney in November 2020 after running a successful grassroots campaign centered on modernizing the DA’s Office and rebuilding trust between law enforcement and the communities it serves. Before running for office, DA Rocah was Pace University School of Law’s Distinguished Fellow in Criminal Justice and a legal analyst for MSNBC and NBC News. Prior to her career at SDNY, DA Rocah clerked for Judge John Gleeson of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and Judge Chester J. Straub of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She was also a litigation associate at the law firm Cravath, Swaine and Moore, and a paralegal at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. A native of Chicago, Illinois, DA Rocah is a graduate of Harvard University and New York University School of Law. She is also an alum of the nationally-acclaimed NYC Urban Fellows Program, a public policy fellowship where she completed her program with the NYPD’s Deputy Commissioner for Legal Affairs.

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United Nations Day (2023)
2023-10-22 14:00 - 16:00 | Mercy University (formerly Mercy College), 555 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry, New York, 10522, United States
Show your support for the United Nations and its principles of peace and non-violence.This program is free and open to all.

LWVW will host a table at UN Day. This year’s topic is Appreciating Peace and Promoting Non-violence: the Role of the UN and Local Youth Movements.

Michael Kingsley-Nyinah

Keynote Speaker: Michael Kingsley-Nyinah in conversation with Ambassador Francis Okelo, Former UN Special Envoy for Peace*

*Mr. Michael Kingsley-Nyinah is currently Director of the Central and Southern Africa Division in the UN Secretariat Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations (DPPA/ DPO). He has served the UN for nearly three decades in senior leadership roles in political and legal advice, and refugee protection, in armed conflict, emergency and headquarters contexts, and across the domains of humanitarian, political, human rights, and development work. Mr Kingsley-Nyinah formerly served in the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Damascus and Gaza.

Planned Speakers:

Marcia Brewster: President, UNA-Westchester

Eduardo Albrecht: Associate Dean, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SSBS), and Director, International Relations and Diplomacy Program, Mercy University

Michael Kingsley-Nyinah: UN Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Department of Peace Operations (DPO)

Ambassador Francis Okelo: former UN Special Envoy for Peace

Youth Peace Activists:

Casiopia Sandt: Horace Greely High School, WESPAC intern

Emiliano Juarez: Westchester County Youth Council

Natalya L. Martin: Manhattanville Clark Scholar on Social Justice

Jonathan Alvarez: 914 United

Margaret Engel: Peace Action New York State

Beth Schuman: Combatants for Peace

Kevin Brickle: Youth Justice & Equity Team (YJET) of New Rochelle

Program Schedule:

1:30pm: Registration & Networking2:00pm: Welcome remarks2:05pm: Remarks by special guest speaker Michael Kingsley-Nyinah and Ambassador Francis Okelo, followed by Q&A session2:35pm: Lightning Round: Youth Movement Peace Activists3:15pm: Reception with refreshments3:55pm: Closing

This event is cosponsored by Mercy University, School of Social and Behavioral Science and Center for Global Engagement; Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Zeta Nu Omega chapter; Concerned Families of Westchester; International Institute on Peace Education; League of Women Voters of Westchester; The Links, Inc.; WESPAC Foundation; Manhattanville College, Mary T. Clark Center for Religion and Social Justice; Westchester County Youth Bureau; and UNA-USA Southern NYS Division.

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Westchester County International Day of the Girl Conference (2023)
2023-10-13 08:30 - 14:00 | 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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