Evening Branch of the Women’s Alliance (EBWA)
Unitarian Universalist Society of Schenectady
1221 Wendell Avenue, Schenectady, NY
All Who Identify as Women are Welcome!

The Evening Branch of the Women’s Alliance (EBWA) at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Schenectady is an informal organization open to all interested women.

EBWA Calendar 2026-2027

Sept. 24  “Sex, Birds, and Rock ‘n Roll: The Wild World of Bird Courtship” with Samantha Carouso Peck, PhD, Head Ornithologist and Educator at the Grassland Bird Trust.  

Oct. 29  “Artificial Intelligence: Pros and Cons” with Haidy Brown, PhD, Professor of Management, The Sage Colleges.  

Nov. 19 “Exploring Newfoundland” with Peg Reich, member of EBWA.

Dec. 3    Joint Holiday Lunch with Women’s Alliance, 11:45 am-2:00 pm.  Luncheon will be followed by our  Holiday Stocking Stuffer event to benefit local children using the Sycamore Emergency Food Pantry.

 
Jan. 28  “Deeds, Not Words: How Militant Suffragists Finally Took Women’s Suffrage Over the Finish Line” with Pat Nugent, retired school administrator, communication professor, and longtime student of the women’s rights movement (on Zoom).  

Feb. 25  “Alzheimers and Brain Health” with Meagan DeMento, Program Director for the Alzheimer’s Association, Schenectady, Fulton & Montgomery Counties (on Zoom).  

Mar. 25  “Dressing the Revolutionary Lady,”  lunch meeting with the Daytime Alliance, 11:45-2:00, with Caitlin Sheldon, Librarian and Historical Costumer. 

Apr. 29  “Providing Justice to ALL Capital Region Communities” with Monice Barbero, Esq., Chief Executive Officer of The Legal Project.

May 27  Program TBA

June 17  “Therapeutic Horses of Saratoga”  with Erin Christopher-Sisk. (This program will take place at 4:30 pm at 683 Route 29, Saratoga Springs. Carpooling will be arranged). 

This year we plan to meet in-person at the church most months (offering coffee and dessert), but we will use Zoom for our meetings in January and February.  While our evening programs will begin promptly at 7 pm (and end no later than 9), for the in-person meetings, we will gather at 6:30 pm for coffee and dessert.  If you plan to attend the in-person meetings, please let Gabrielle Reals know by emailing her at ellegr3 at gmail . com by Tuesday evening before each meeting.  

Again this year there will be two luncheon meetings at the church.  We will join the Women’s Alliance on December 3 for a Holiday Luncheon, and EBWA will host a lunch meeting on March 25 and invite Daytime Alliance members to join us.  These meetings will take place from 11:45 am to 2:00 pm. – Details about ALL programs will appear in the UUSS weekly newsletter, Circuits, at the beginning of each month: https://uuschenectady.org/blog/newsletter/ and on the UUSS Facebook page a week before each meeting: https://www.facebook.com/UUSSchenectady/. 

As we have done the last few years, we plan to fund our speakers’ honoraria through subscriptions by supporters.  Subscribers will not be charged for our evening programs; there will be a cost for the two luncheon programs. 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 at gmail . com).  We need at least 25 subscriptions to cover our costs for the year. Non-subscribers will be asked to contribute $5 for each in-person evening program to cover the speaker’s honorarium and refreshments.