EBWA Calendar 2022-2023
Evening Branch of the Women’s Alliance
Unitarian Universalist Society of Schenectady
1221 Wendell Avenue, Schenectady, NY
Sept. 29 “Edmonia Lewis: Sculptor of Determination and Courage” with Bobbie Reno, East Greenbush Town Historian, author and illustrator.
Oct. 27 “Genetic Genealogy for Law Enforcement (and You!)” with Toby Kirshmann, MS, DNA Consultant.
Nov. 17 “Voting Rights and Electoral College Issues” with Zoe Oxley, PhD, Professor of Political Science, Union College.
Dec. 15 “Move It and Use It: The Role of Physical and Mental Exercise in Brain Health” with Cay Anderson-Hanley, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Union College.
Jan. 26 “K9 Search and Rescue” with Kristina Barbuti, Chairperson Northeast Mobile Search and Rescue.
Feb. 23 “The Mooncatcher Project” with Ellie von Wellsheim, Program Director.
Mar. 30 “Just Come the Right Way: A Look Inside the Immigration Machine” with Sara Lowry, Legal Services Network Coordinator, U.S. Committee on Refugees and Immigrants.
Apr. 27 “Food Bank 101” with Molly Nicol, Chief Executive Officer, Regional Food Bank of Northeastern NY.
May 25 “Update of Local, State and National Planned Parenthood Initiatives” with Nicole Margiasso-Tran, Director of Community Organizing, Planned Parenthood of Greater New York.
June 15 “Schenectady’s Award-Winning Rose Garden” — visit to the Central Park Rose Garden and greenhouse with Pam Pearlman, Chief Gardener.
Traditionally EBWA meetings have been in-person and have begun with a light dinner. This year we will continue to meet on Thursday evenings, usually the last Thursday of the month. We hope to resume our in-person meetings at the church sometime this fall (offering coffee and dessert, not a full meal), but we will use Zoom for our meetings in September, January and February. No matter where or how we meet, we will begin at 7 pm and end no later than 9 pm. If you want to sign up to receive the Zoom invitation on the day of each meeting, please contact Judy Clough at mimaclough@yahoo.com and your name will be added to the list. We will also send a monthly announcement by e-mail and in Circuits. Requests from women who are not yet on our list for Zoom invitations can be made by emailing Gabrielle Reals at ellegr3@gmail.com by Monday evening before each meeting.
As we did last year, we plan to fund the honorariums we pay our speakers through subscriptions by supporters; we will not be charging women for each program. If you wish to support our efforts, you may send a check made out to EBWA for $30 to Carol Furman (contact Carol for her mailing address at cfurm13@gmail.com). Subscribers will be automatically added to the ZOOM list. (We need at least 25 subscriptions to cover our costs for the year.) When we are able to resume in-person meetings, the charge to subscribers for individual meetings will be waived. Non-subscribers will be asked to pay $5 to cover the speaker’s honorarium and refreshments for each in-person program. – We very much look forward to seeing you again, both on Zoom and “live,” when our in-person meetings resume.