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Women Leading Local GovernmentsA first-ever conference for women elected to New York State's November 12-13, 2004 Some of our Elected Attendees Front Row Left to Right: The Hon. Wanda F. Willingham, Albany County Legislator; The Hon. Esther Leadley, Genesee County Legislator; The Hon. Lois Bronz, Westchester County Legislator; The Hon. Joyce Melfi, City of Olean Councilwoman; The Hon. Gladys Santiago, City of Rochester Councilwoman; The Hon. Harriett Cornell, Rockland County Legislator; The Hon. Bethaida Gonzalez, City of Syracuse Councilwoman; The Hon. Kathy Luz Herrera, Tompkins County Legislator. Back Row Left to Right: The Hon. Deborah Flood, Yates County Legislator; The Hon. Susan Myers, Allegheny County Legislator; The Hon. Carolyn Peterson, City of Ithaca Mayor; The Honorable Shawn Morris, City of Albany Councilwoman; The Hon. Vivian Viloria-Fisher, Suffolk County Legislator; The Hon. Susan Fieszli, City of Courtland Councilwoman; The Hon. Linda Witte, Cattaraugus County Legislator; The Hon. Leslyn McBean-Clairborne, Tompkins County Legislator; The Hon. Carolyn McLaughlin, City of Albany Councilwoman. Photo by Annette Dragon
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
How Women Govern, Georgia Duerst-Lahti, Ph.D Dr. Duerst-Lahti is Professor and Chair of Political Science at Beloit College, where she teaches American Politics and Gender Politics. She has also served as President of the Women's Caucus for Political Science. In 1995, she edited Gender Power, Leadership and Governance. Dr. Duerst-Lahti discussed how women may change politics and government.
Creating a Better World for Women & their Families, Jody Heymann, M.D., Ph.D Dr. Heymann is founder and director of the Project on Global Working Families. An Associate Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Heymann is founding chair of the Initiative on Work, Family, and Democracy. She is the Director of Policy at the Harvard Center for Society and Health.
Safe at Home: Working Against Domestic Violence, Ruth Brandwein, Ph.D Director of the Social Justice Center, Stony Brook University and former commissioner of the Department of Social Services, Suffolk County, NY.
Safe in the World: The Environment and Women's Health, Lois Gibbs Ms. Gibbs, director of the Center for Health, the Environment and Justice, is an environmental activist who discovered in 1979 that the 20,000 tons of toxic waste buried in her Love Canal neighborhood threatened the health of her family and neighbors. In 1998, she won the Heinz Award for the Environment for demonstrating the importance of citizen activists in protecting both the health of their communities and the environment as a whole.
Secure in Life: Building Women's Economic Strength, Ann Crittenden Author of The Price of Motherhood and If You've Raised Kids You Can Manage Anything, Ann is also a Pulitzer Prize-nominated former economic writer for the NY Times.
Leaders Networking Reception at the George Eastman House The Honorable Louise Slaughter, Congresswoman, inspires the participants.
Plenary Session-Drafting a Local Action Plan for New York Women, Moderator: Joy Collins, MBA, Principal, Collins Consulting  Participants drafted a plan to improve the lives to New York women and their families. The Local Action Plan will also shape the future work of the Women Leading Local Governments initiative. The plan became available in early 2005.
Related Newspaper Articles11/14/2004 Democrat & Chronicle: Women in Area Politics Form Bonds |
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