“Just Come the Right Way: A Look Inside the Immigration Machine” Speaker: Sara Lowry, Associate Director of Legal Services, U.S. Committee on Refugees and Immigrants, Albany Join us as we convene for our first in-person EBWA (Evening Branch of the Women’s Alliance) meeting in three years! Sara Lowry will provide us with a brief history of immigration laws … Continue reading EBWA’s March Program: A Look Inside the Immigration Machine

Food Bank 101: What the Regional Food Bank Does and the State of Food Insecurity in Our Region. Speaker: Molly Nicol, Chief Executive Officer, Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York Molly Nicol has been Chief Executive Officer of the Regional Food Bank since June 2021. She has decades of experience from both the for-profit and not-for-profit … Continue reading EBWA’s April Program: Food Bank 101

Join EBWA (Evening Branch of the Women's Alliance) on June 15th at 5 pm for a tour of the Central Park Rose Garden.  Our tour will be led by Matt Cuevas, the President of the Rose Garden Restoration Committee.  There are three hundred varieties of roses and over four thousand bushes in the garden.  The … Continue reading Schenectady’s Award-Winning Rose Garden (EBWA’s June program)

The speaker for the September program of the Evening Branch of the Women's Alliance (EBWA) will be Kelly de la Rocha, poet, writer and creator of poemRENOVATION.com.   Poet and journalist Kelly de la Rocha dismantled old self-portrait poems during the pandemic lockdown, rearranged them and found a new path forward. The digital daily word puzzle … Continue reading EBWA program: Poem RENOVATION: Pandemic-fueled Exploration Yields Entrepreneurial Inspiration

The Evening Brach of the Women's Alliance (EBWA) October program is: Banned Books: Not In My Backyard, presented by Charity Thorne, Executive Director of the Schenectady County Public Library. Intellectual freedom is one of the core values of librarianship, and the current surge in challenges to the valuable access libraries provide is unprecedented in the … Continue reading Banned Books: Not In My Backyard

Speaker:  Wendy Roberts, Associate Professor of English, University at Albany Phillis Wheatley is often referred to as the Mother of African American literature, the first Black person, and therefore also the first Black woman living in British North America to publish a book, and, because it was a book of poetry, the first to publish a book of … Continue reading Phillis Wheatley’s Presence: Getting to Know One of America’s First Black Poets

From Baseball to Broadcasting, featuring Wanda Fischer, Host of WAMC's Hudson River Sampler When the Evening Branch of the Women's Alliance (EBWA) Steering committee contacts prospective speakers each spring for the following year, we usually have particular topics in mind. Sometimes a speaker wants to talk about something different, and often we agree to the … Continue reading From Baseball to Broadcasting: EBWA program for December