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SUMMARY:LWVW Voting and Disabilities Rights Special Event
DESCRIPTION:Jenna Bainbridge\n\n\n\nREV UP! (Register\, Educate\, Vote\, Use your Power)Topic: Voting and Disabilities RightsCo-sponsored by LWVW and Westchester Disabled on the Move\, Inc.Featured Speaker: Actress Jenna Bainbridge\,currently starring in the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical SuffsWednesday\, October 16\, 2024\, from 11am to 2pmWestchester County CenterConference Room B (ground floor) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVoters with disabilities are part of every community. Yet\, systemic barriers prevent many from accessing their right to vote. Learn about your voting rights\, register to vote\, and apply for absentee or early mail ballots. Event includes refreshments and raffle prizes. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:PostMore\n				Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)\n				WhatsApp\n			Like this:Like Loading...
URL:https://lwvw.org/event/lwvw-voting-and-disabilities-rights-special-event/
LOCATION:Westchester County Center\, 198 Central Avenue\, White Plains\, New York\, 10606
CATEGORIES:Voter Service
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SUMMARY:Candidate Forum for U.S. Congressional District 16
DESCRIPTION:U.S. Congressional District 16 Candidate ForumThursday\, October 17\, 2024\, from 7pm to 8:30pmWhite Plains Public Library \n\n\n\nSave the date for this moderated candidate forum in which an LWV-trained moderator will pose questions to Miriam Flisser (R) and George Latimer (D)\, who are running in the general election for U.S. Congressional District 16. \n\n\n\nPlease submit proposed questions for the candidates using the form below. Questions to be posed at the forum will be finalized in advance but not made available to the candidates or any of their staff members.   \n\n\n\nLoading…\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:PostMore\n				Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)\n				WhatsApp\n			Like this:Like Loading...
URL:https://lwvw.org/event/candidate-forum-for-u-s-congressional-district-16/
LOCATION:White Plains Public Library\, 100 Martine Avenue\, White Plains\, NY\, 10601
CATEGORIES:Candidate Forum
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SUMMARY:United Nations Day (2024)
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate UN Day with UNA WestchesterTopic: Why the World Needs the UN and the UN Needs USSunday\, October 27\, 2024Registration begins at 1:30pmProgram starts at 2pmThis program is free and open to all. \n\n\n\nLWVW will host a table at the event. \n\n\n\nLaurel Rapp\n\n\n\nKanni Wignaraja\n\n\n\nProgram Agenda: \n\n\n\n\nPrincipal Speaker: Kanni Wignaraja\, Assistant Secretary General and Director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific (RBAP)\, UN Development Programme (UNDP)*\n\n\n\nPrincipal Speaker: Laurel Rapp\, Deputy Director\, Policy Planning Staff\, Liaison with the United Nations\, US Department of State**\n\n\n\nSDG Honorees: The Afya Foundation\, GEMS Program at YWCA\, Feeding Westchester\, Yonkers Partners in Education\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister to Attend in Person\n\n\n\nRegister to Attend Virtually\n\n\n\n\n*Kanni Wignaraja of Sri Lanka was appointed in 2019 as the Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific\, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Previously\, Wignaraja served as the Acting Assistant Administrator and Director\, Bureau for Management Services\, UNDP and as Special Adviser to the UNDP Administrator\, roles that she has performed throughout 2019\, after working as the Director of the United Nations Development Operations Coordination Office (DOCO) from 2014 to 2018. Wignaraja brings over twenty-five years of experience of the United Nations mission and UNDP’s role in the sustainable development agenda. She has a deep knowledge of the Asia-Pacific region\, as well as the global\, regional and country level workings of UNDP\, across policy\, programme\, management and operations. Wignaraja joined the Organization in 1990 as the Policy and Evaluation Officer of United Nations Volunteers (UNV) and has worked in various field as well as in UNDP’s Headquarters in New York\, serving in the Asia and Pacific and the Africa Region. She also served in the Bureau for Development Policy in progressively senior positions\, including that of United Nations Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Zambia. Wignaraja holds a master’s degree in Public Administration (Development Economics) from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Arts (Economics) from Bryn Mawr College. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n**Laurel Rapp serves as a Deputy Director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff. Most recently\, Rapp was a senior advisor for UN Political Affairs in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs\, charged with assessments of the UN’s civilian missions\, engagement with the UN Secretary-General and other senior UN officials\, international legal matters in the Security Council\, and UN reform. In 2020\, Rapp served as fellow on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff focused on Europe and South & Central Asia. Previously\, she worked on Middle East issues for the Deputy Secretary of State\, the National Security Council\, and the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs. Before her time in government\, Laurel worked in New York at the OneVoice Movement\, a Middle East-focused youth organization\, and spent a year in Morocco on a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship researching women’s political participation. Rapp graduated from Brown University and received a master’s degree in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She speaks some Arabic\, French\, and Italian. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare this:PostMore\n				Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)\n				WhatsApp\n			Like this:Like Loading...
URL:https://lwvw.org/event/united-nations-day-2024/
LOCATION:Manhattanville University (formerly Manhattanville College)\, Reid Castle\, 2900 Purchase Street\, Purchase\, NY\, 10577
CATEGORIES:Youth and Civic Engagement
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