EBWA Calendar 2021-2022
Evening Branch of the Women’s Alliance
Unitarian Universalist Society of Schenectady
1221 Wendell Avenue, Schenectady, NY
All Who Identify as Women are Welcome!
Sept. 23 “Police Reform in Schenectady” with Jamaica Miles, co-founder of “All of Us,” a grassroots organization fighting to end all forms of racism; newly-elected member of the Schenectady City School Board.
Oct. 28 “The Effects of Covid/Distance Learning on Schenectady Students” with Ebony Belmar, social worker, Schenectady City Schools; board member of the Working Group on Girls of Schenectady, Inc.
Nov. 18 “Communication for Unshakeable Relationships” with BJ Rosenfeld, author and expert in family relationships.
Dec. 16 “Why Are We Scared of Anti-Racist Theatre?” with Karen Christina Jones, Artistic Director, Callaloo Theater Company.
Jan. 27 “Community Development Efforts in Schenectady—Past and Present” with Jennica Huff, CEO Better Community Neighborhoods, Inc.
Feb. 17 “Conserving the Lands and Waters on Which All Life Depends” with Jessica Ottney Mahar, New York Policy and Strategy Director for The Nature Conservancy.
Mar. 31 “Risk and Resilience: Overcoming the Odds” with Teresa Gil, Ph.D., psychotherapist, professor, author.
Apr. 28 “Finding A Woman’s Place: The Story of a 1970’s Feminist Collective in the Adirondacks” with Lorraine Duvall, award-winning Adirondack author, political/ environmental podcaster.
May 26 “Women in the FBI: Then and Now” with Joanne Sills, retired FBI Special Agent.
June 16 “Schenectady’s Leading Ladies” —walking tour of the Stockade with Mary Zawicki, Executive Director, Schenectady County Historical Society.
Traditionally EBWA meetings have been in-person and have begun with a light dinner. However, due to Covid, we expect to continue using ZOOM for our meetings for the indeterminate future. Like last year, the meetings will begin promptly at 7pm with the speaker at the beginning, followed by a Q&A period and networking. We will end no later than 9pm. We will be sending out monthly announcements with details about each program by e-mail and in Circuits.
Again, as we did last year, we are funding the honorariums we pay our speakers through subscriptions by supporters, and we will not be charging women for each program; your check will cover a series of meetings. If you wish to support our efforts, you may send a check made out to EBWA for $25 to Carol Furman (contact her at cfurm13@gmail.com for the mailing address). Subscribers will be automatically added to the ZOOM list. (We need at least 27 subscriptions to cover our costs for the year.) You do not need to contact Gabrielle for each meeting if you are on the permanent ZOOM list.
Judy Clough will e-mail the ZOOM link the day before each meeting (mimaclough@yahoo.com).
Those women who prefer to attend meetings occasionally may sign up each month by emailing Gabrielle at ellegr3@gmail.com by the Monday evening before each meeting. You will receive the ZOOM link for that meeting only.
If you are not yet familiar with ZOOM, see this tutorial: TCUUC Zoom Tutorial for Mobile Devices – YouTube.