LWVW Annual Meeting/Convention (2026)
2026-06-04 17:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Scarsdale Woman’s Club, 37 Drake Road, Scarsdale, New York, 10583, United States
Come one, come all!LWVW Annual Meeting/ConventionThursday, June 4, 20265 to 8pmScarsdale Woman’s Club37 Drake RoadScarsdale, NY 10583

Meet other local league members within Westchester County, hear what LWVW has accomplished this past year, and learn what is on the horizon for 2026-27.

Delegates will be voting:

to approve the LWVW budget for 2026-26,

to amend LWVW bylaws,

to adopt a LWVW local program for 2026-27, and

to elect and install incoming officers and directors.

All attendees will then have an opportunity socialize over a buffet dinner and enjoy the keynote address. The Annual Meeting/Convention Agenda will be posted below in the near future.

Featured Speaker: Jeanne Sheehan Zaino, Ph.D.Topic: America at 250: Reckoning with the Past, Imagining the Future

Jeanne Sheehan Zaino is a professor of Political Science and International Studies at Iona University. She teaches courses in political and social risk, voting, elections, public opinion, political parties, presidency, congress, the courts, civil liberties, constitutional law, media and politics, social statistics, data analysis and research methods, among others. During her tenure at Iona, she has served as Dean of the School of Arts and Science, Director of the Honors Program, and Chair of the Political Science Department.

A pollster by training, she is also political contributor with Bloomberg News, a Democracy Visiting Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School, a Senior Democracy Fellow with the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, an affiliated faculty member with the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies, a member of the International Advisory Board for South Asia Research, and author of several books and articles, including American Democracy in Crisis: The Case for Rethinking Madisonian Government Post January 6 (Palgrave MacMillian 2025). Along with four colleagues at Iona who form the Data Science working group she was awarded a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation’s Division of Undergraduate Education for a project entitled “Data Science for Future Leaders.” She is also a playwright, whose most recent work, Motherland, is a courtroom drama that depicts the real life trial of Madan Lal Dhingra in Great Britain in the early twentieth century.

Zaino holds a PhD and MA in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, an MPA in Survey Research and Data Analysis from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut, Storrs (now moved to Cornell University), as well as a BA in Political Science and Mass Communications, which was earned as a University Scholar at the University of Connecticut.

Ticket includes admission to meeting (5-6:20pm), buffet supper (6:20-6:45pm), and speaker program (6:45-7:45pm).

Price: $75/personAdjust quantities of annual convention tickets in your shopping cart after hitting the “Add to Cart” button and before entering payment information.

First and Last Name(s) of Attendee(s): Email Address(es): Local League Affiliation (if any):

Share this:PostMore
Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)
WhatsApp
Like this:Like Loading...
