What a program for the third in the YWCA series on Women in History Month! Held at JPMorgan Chase with Catherine Keating, Head of Investment Management Americas for JPMorgan Chase as moderator, the group of four included Rosemonde Pierre-Louis, the Manhattan Deputy Borough President; Andrea Shapiro Davis who is Mayor Bloomberg’s Director of the Commission on Women’s Issues; Michelle Kaminsky, who has written of her long career as a domestic violence prosecutor; and Arva Rice, only the second woman to serve as head of the well-known Urban League. Read more…
April 3, 2013
Three young women named Shamika, Zerlina and Bonnie, along with their television moderator named Eva, had us all quite riveted at a breakfast program on March 12th presented by the New York YWCA as part of its “Women’s History Month” series. Their topic was “Women Leaders as Agents of Social Change,” but it was their stories of achievement as women of color who have succeeded at an early age in prestigious fields and their thoughtful answers that really won our applause. Read more…
April 1, 2013
Dr. Dara Richardson-Heron, a former CEO with Komen of Greater New York and a past Chief Medical Officer of United Cerebral Palsy of NYC, is the new executive officer of this country’s YWCA, which, as many of us know, began its existence with the New York YWCA in 1858! Dara and I met recently in New York, and she was most enthusiastic about her new role: Read more…
February 7, 2013
It was a special evening for Board members, some key supporters, a few of the YW staff and other past board members and guests! We gathered at Eve Guernsey’s apartment in New York to meet the newly chosen CEO of the YW, Dr. Danielle Moss Lee, who has been head of a Harlem Educational Activities Fund for the past ten years. Read more…
July 6, 2012
“Almost every woman I know has a story about the YWCA . . . You are an incredible group of women!”- Vice President Biden Read more…
May 21, 2012
Commission on the Status of Women:
For women around the world and particularly for those active in the World YWCA, the annual CSW conference in New York at the United Nations has become a major event for airing women’s issues and seeking remedies through the UN body known as the Commission on the Status of Women. The Commission (CSW) was established in 1946 by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the UN and has the responsibility for promoting women’s rights in all areas – political, economic, civil, educational, and social – as well a mandate to enact proposals of the last world conference on women held in Beijing in 1995. Read more…
March 26, 2012
“That’s the best dinner we’ve had in months,” agreed two of our YWCA-NYC guests. We were finishing the YWCA-NYC’s third “Dinner by the Book” evening on August 15th at a large, elegant restaurant on Broadway at 105th Street called Henry’s. Beth Linskey, gourmet cook and author, the evening’s star, had joined the owner, Henry Rinehart, and some thirty YWCA-NYC guests for two hours of scrumptious food and interesting pointers on cooking wonderful jams and chutneys. Read more…
August 17, 2011
It was a cold and windy Friday in February, about one o’clock, when the group gathered for a celebration lunch – some eight women students, a director, two teachers, two staff members and two YWCA guests. Lunch was a festive layout with two large serving dishes of colorful lasagna and salad, along with bread and drinks and a luxurious cake covered with thick pink and vanilla icing, saved for after the ceremony. Read more…
August 10, 2011
