National Council of Women of the U.S.

History of the National Council of Women of the United States The National Council of Women of the United States, Inc. is a coalition of organizations and individuals dedicated to the realization of full participation by women in every aspect of society. We represent all races, creeds and traditions. We are the oldest non-sectarian volunteer organization of women in America. We were officially founded in 1888, but have roots that date back to the anti-slavery movement.

Our founders include a Who’s Who of America’s most notable women pioneers: § Susan B. Anthony, whose likeness appears on the American silver dollar § Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who is credited with initiating the first organized women's rights and women's suffrage movements in the United States. § Clara Barton, who founded the American Red Cross § Julia Ward Howe, who wrote the Battle Hymn of the Republic § Sojourner Truth, who was the first black women Suffragette § Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in the United States After working to abolish slavery, founding members focused on ending child labor, improving workplace conditions, and women’s suffrage. Today, the Council works for the education, participation and advancement of women and girls nationally and internationally.

Today, we pay tribute to the founders and leaders of the National Council of Women of the United States and the International Council of Women in Celebration of 125 years of service in the context of 59th Session of United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.

The NCW-US is an accredited Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) with the Department of Public Information (UN/DPI) and in Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council (UN/ECOSOC) of the United Nations. We are a US 501c3 charitable organization and registered with the NY Charities Commission in the section that discusses our UN affiliations.

Unfinished Business: The task is still not done When Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton met in Seneca Falls, they never imagined their legacy would be so far reaching. The organization they initiated in 1888 remains the oldest, nonpartisan, nonsectarian women’s organization in the country. The International Council of Women, organized at the same time, also continues.

This year the Council celebrates its work to end sexism and racism by bringing together women and men interested in creating a better world through a major Conference at Cooper Union in New York City. Through Unfinished Business the Council expects to energize all sectors of society to continue the work started by these early pioneers.

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Message From

Mary E. Singletary, RN, President

National Council of Women of the United States

It is an honor and a privilege for me to welcome you all here today. As we gather in this magnificent, Great Hall to discuss the strides women have made since that first meeting of the National Council of Women of Women of the United States in 1888. I can only imagine that the pioneering ladies of the past--Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, the Suffragists--and all the others whose names we will never know are celebrating with us in spirit.

As the National Council of Women of the United States and the International Council of Women mark 125 years of championing the women’s rights and providing continuous service to the needs and well-being of women and girls, I am sure our Founders would be proud and humbled of what we have achieved. They could not have imagined that because of their courage, their bravery, their unrelenting determination to fight for what they believed in despite criticism, censure, and ridicule, that women have achieved what they could not in their lifetime.

In most countries of the world, women have the right to vote, and girls have the right to an education. Women can be presidents of corporations and higher education institutions, members of government, and even presidents of their countries.

Yes, we have indeed made great strides. But here in the US, and in too many countries around the world, women and girls are still at a disadvantage economically, socially, culturally, and educationally.

Our work is still not done; there is a lot of unfinished business.

As we listen to our esteemed panel of speakers and panelists, and enjoy the dramatic presentations of our talented young performers, let us bear in mind what we have yet to achieve. Our work will not be complete until women and girls are regarded as full citizens deserving of equal rights in all aspects of life in all societies. It is a goal that our Founders would fully embrace, and one that 125 years from now, our descendants will celebrate its achievement.

Thank you again for celebrating our 125th year with us.

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WASHINGTON, MARCH 2014

PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 113TH CONGRESS

I N R E C O G N I T I O N O F T H E 125 T H A NN I V E RSA R Y O F T H E N A T I O N A L C OUNCIL O F W O M E N O F T H E U NI T E D ST A T ES H O N. C A R O L Y N B. M A L O N E Y OF NEW YORK I N T H E H O USE O F R E PR ESE N T A T I V ES Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay tribute to the National Council of Women of the United States (the Council) on the occasion of its 125th Anniversary. Since its founding in 1888 by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the Council has successfully addressed countless issues that women and girls face. With its roots in the !"#$%&'(suffrage movement, the Council is now the oldest nonsectarian, nonpartisan, )"*+%,-./(!"#$%&'(".0-%12-,1"%(1%(,3$(456 For 125 years, the Council has represented all races, religions and traditions equally, seeking to establish policies that promote equality and human rights. The Council has worked both locally and internationally to create lasting social and political change for women. At the United Nations, the Council has been accredited as a non-governmental organization and has also gained consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

Throughout its history, the Council has been ahead of its time. The Council had already established committees for divorce reform and equal pay for equal work by 1892, causes that are still pressing to this day. During the Twentieth Century, the Council was involved in a wide range of issues including protesting the Russian persecution of Jews, advocating for improvement in the treatment of Native Americans by the US government, and fighting for the creation of juvenile courts.

In 1949, the Council strengthened its global relationships through the creation of an International Hospitality Committee for foreign female visitors. During the Cold War, members of the Council created a Committee of Correspondence, so that American women could exchange views with women in other countries and share their experiences and daily lives. By arranging visits between American and Soviet

female leaders, the Council played an important role in easing tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. Since then, the Council has welcomed and hosted hundreds of women each year from around the globe.

In collaboration with its affiliated organizations, the Council has installed over 80 water wells in Ghana and provided 7Mama Kits8 for young women giving birth in rural areas. Additionally, the Council has started a program called 7New Life8 which assists young women in Malawi who have recently undergone surgery for fistula.

In recent years, the Council has directed arts competitions, distributed book awards, and reviewed various films. The Council also organizes seminars on topics such as city planning, African politics and cultures, political violence and urban crime, and parenting.

Through workshops, seminars, and committees, it successfully advances, implements, and disseminates progressive ideas and fosters a productive dialogue.

At its conference on March 28, 2014, entitled 74%91%1'3$:(;+'1%$''<(=>?*".1%0(@$!(A".12"%'( for Societal Change,8(,3$(B"+%C1*(!1** not only celebrate its prolific 125-year history, but will also shed light on current issues affecting women, including trafficking as a contemporary form of slavery, employment discrimination, and pay disparity, among others.

Mr. Speaker, I ask that my colleagues join me in recognizing the National Council of Women in the United States on reaching this momentous milestone and celebrating its many accomplishments. For the past 125 years, this exceptional organization has worked tirelessly to bring about cultural, societal, and political change to the benefit of women and girls everywhere.

____________________________________ C A R O L Y N B. M A L O N E Y Member of Congress

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To the Officers and Members of the National Council of Women of the U.S.

! !Jamshed Bharucha President The Cooper Union For the Advancement of Science and Art Cooper Square New York, NY 10003-7120 T 212.353.4240 F 212.353.4244 www.cooper.edu

On behalf of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, I am delighted to welcome you to The Great Hall, rich in the history of the United States, of the Women’s Movement, and, in particular, of the National Council of Women of the U.S. It is significant that, when this school first opened in 1859, at a time when few academic institutions in this country admitted women, The Cooper Union welcomed them.

This room, which saw a memorial service for John Brown in 1859 and Abraham Lincoln’s great Cooper Union Address in 1860, also saw many signal moments in the fight for women’s rights. Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt, Lucy Stone, and Lucretia Mott all spoke here in support of women’s suffrage. During the Civil War, Anthony and Stanton—the founders of the NCWUS— also founded the Women’s Loyal League to support the Union cause. They had their headquarters on the second floor of this building. In 1894, one of the largest mass meetings ever held here supported women’s suffrage. The following day, the New York Times Headline read: WOMEN RULED THE MEETING: MEN HELP THEM AND THEY MADE COOPER UNION ROCK MRS. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON AROUSES ENTHUSIASM AS SHE DEMANDS THE BALLOT AS A RIGHT The American Labor Movement, largely initiated by New York’s female garment workers, held many crucial meetings in The Great Hall. The NAACP had its first public meeting here. Firebrand feminist Victoria Woodhull was arrested on this stage.

Among the inspiring speakers who have stood here are countless women authors, poets, political leaders, and scientists—Susan Sontag, Bella Abzug, Nell Irvin Painter, and the former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson.

We are especially proud that Eleanor Baum, Dean Emerita of Cooper Union’s Albert Nerken School of Engineering—the first female dean of any engineering school in the country, will receive the Susan B. Anthony Award for Outstanding Service. We offer Dean Baum hearty congratulations and extend those congratulations to all who are assembled here to deal with Unfinished Business: Exploring New Horizons for Social Change.

With best wishes for the success of this 125th Anniversary Conference,

Jamshed Bharucha President

The 2014 Susan B. Anthony Award For Outstanding Service Awardee

Dr. Eleanor Baum

The National Council of Women of the US is proud to present the prestigious Susan B. Anthony Award for Outstanding Service to Dr. Eleanor Baum for her continuing contributions in the field of engineering, and to STEM careers in general, particularly in regard to young women. The Award, given only one other time in the history of the organization, recognizes outstanding women for their remarkable contributions to society.

Dr. Eleanor Baum was Dean of Engineering at The Cooper Union in New York! City, where she continues as Dean Emeritus.

Dr. Baum received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Polytechnic University and her undergraduate education at City College of New York. Dr. Baum became the first woman dean of an engineering school in the US when she was appointed to that post by Pratt Institute in 1984, and followed in a similar post at Cooper Union.

Dr. Baum has worked in the aerospace industry and consulted for both government and industry. Her many credits include past-chair of the New York Academy of Sciences, past-president of the American Society for Engineering Education and past-president of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). She chaired the Committee of Examiners for the Graduate Record Examination, and was on the Board of Governors of the Order of the Engineer. She is a Fellow of IEEE, ABET, ASEE, and SWE and was the National Chairman of the Engineering Deans Council.

Dr. Baum was on the Engineering Advisory Committee for the National Science Foundation and was Chair of the Engineering Workforce Commission. She has served on the National Academy’s Board on Engineering Education, the Competitiveness Policy Council, and national task forces dealing with the student pipeline and with the faculty shortage in Engineering. She was a director of Allegheny Power Systems, Inc., the United States Trust Co., AVNET Corp., and was a member of the Electric Power Research Institute Advisory Council. She was a trustee of Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and of Webb Institute. She served on the External Advisory Boards of Michigan, Rice and Duke Universities, and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.

Her many awards include: The Lamme award for outstanding leadership in engineering education from ASEE in June 2002; the CCNY Townsend Harris medal in 1997; the Gruenwald Award from IEEE for outstanding contributions to engineering education in 1997; founding inductee in the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame in 1996; Engineer of the Year from the Engineering Joint Council of Long Island in 1995; the Engineering Achievement Award from Michigan Technological University in 1995; the Outstanding Women in Science Award in 1992 from AWIS; the Dean’s Medallion from Michigan State University in 1992; the Upward Mobility Award from the Society of Women Engineers in 1990, and the Woman of Distinction Award from the National Association of Student Leaders in 1990. She was the national winner of the 1988 Emily Warren Roebling Award presented by the National Women’s Hall of Fame.

She received the Engineering Achievement Award in 1987 from the Long Island Federation of Technology LIFT); the Outstanding Alumnus Achievement Awards from both CCNY and from Polytechnic University in 1986. In 2007 she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York.

Unfinished Business: The Power Of The Vote

Dr. Martha Burk,

feminist and author of Your Voice, Your Vote: The Savvy Woman’s Guide to Power, Politics and the Change We Need Martha Burk is a political psychologist and women's issues expert is currently Host/Producer of Equal Time with Martha Burk, a weekly national public affairs radio commentary originating at KSFR public radio in Santa Fe. She is Director of the Corporate Accountability Project for the National Council of Women’s Organizations (NCWO) one of the nation’s largest coalitions of women’s groups, collectively representing ten million women. She also serves as the Money Editor for Ms. Magazine, and she is a frequent front page blogger for Huffington Post.

From 2000-2005 Dr. Burk served as Chair of the National Council of Women's Organizations and led the NCWO effort to open the Augusta National Golf Club to women, and remains at the forefront of the debate on women’s progress in Corporate America. She has appeared on a great number of national news shows, ranging from NBC Nightly News to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Dr. Burk's latest book Your Voice, Your Vote: The Savvy Woman’s Guide to Power, Politics and the Change We Need is a Ms. Magazine book selection and has won the New Mexico book award winner for best political book of the year.

Angela Clark-Taylor has been the Program Manager of the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Rochester since 2009. Clark-Taylor specializes in program development, experiential learning, and community building. Her research and teaching focus on issues of sex, gender, and sexuality in higher education. She is currently working on her PhD in Educational Leadership at the University of Rochester.

Unfinished Business: Looking Back, Guiding Progress

Sally Roesch Wagner, PhD.

Dr. Wagner will share insights into the issues faced by Anthony, Cady Stanton and Gage in the 1800s, showing how the early suffragists approached these issues, and drawing conclusions about what women (and the men who support this work) need to do next.

Wagner, a nationally recognized lecturer, author and performance interpreter of women's rights history, was one of the first women in the United States to receive a doctorate for work in women's studies. She was a founder of one of the country's first college women's studies programs at California State University Sacramento. Dr. Wagner has taught women's studies for forty-four years and currently serves as adjunct faculty in the Honors Program at Syracuse University.

Wagner will also present a free program, open to the public, at 4:30 PM on March 27th. That program will concentrate on the history of Gage, Anthony and Cady Stanton, and is made possible through the support of the New York Council for the Humanities' Speakers in the Humanities Program.

Unfinished Business: Women's Studies - Engaging Communities Women’s Studies and Feminist Engagement

The creation of the discipline of women’s studies has had a very clear purpose—to transform the university so that knowledge about women is no longer invisible, marginalized, or made “other”. Women’s studies and feminist scholarship was not intended to merely study women’s position in the world, but to change it. If we are to realize this goal, we must include students across disciplines, when teaching the value of feminist activism, leadership, and organizing. These presentations share strategies from Rochester area colleges and universities on moving the dialogue on feminist student engagement forward.

Angela Clarke-Taylor

Angela Clark-Taylor has been the Program Manager of the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Rochester since 2009. Clark-Taylor specializes in program development, experiential learning, and community building. Her research and teaching focus on issues of sex, gender, and sexuality in higher education. She is currently working on her PhD in Educational Leadership at the University of Rochester.

Dramatic Readings From Herstory: Hunter College Students and University of Rochester Women’s Studies Sojourner Truth: Jennifer Parmelee Jennifer Parmelee is a mother, actor, accomplished painter, poet, yoga therapist Calm Birth Teacher Trainer, Lamaze Childbirth Educator, DONA Doula, NYS Certified Lactation Consultant, Certified Midwifery Assistant and activist. She holds a BA in English from Hunter College and is currently pursing an MA in Adolescent Education/English Literature at Hunter College. Jennifer’s most recent credits include presenting at the 2013 International Leadership Association’s Inaugural Women’s Conference in California and co-coordinating the Improving Birth.Org National Rally in NYC.

Susan B. Anthony: Diana Hinojosa Diana Hinojosa is currently an undergraduate at Hunter College, where she is pursuing a degree in Economics.

At this time she is interning for Girl Rising, a social action campaign for girls’ education. Diana hopes to continue her work within non-profit organizations in the belief that more can be done to help with such issues.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Julia Weisner Julia Weisner is a junior at Hunter College, studying Political Science, Theatre, and German, and is an active member in community theaters. Her roles in past productions have included: Fastrada (Pippin), Mayzie La Bird (Seussical), and Smitty (Play On!). She won an Outstanding Witness Award at the 2013 Yale Regional Mock Trial Competition, as well as the Distinguished Delegation Award and Outstanding Position Paper Award at the National Model United Nations Conference for her representation of the United States of America. This year, she was voted into the position of Vice President of the Hunter College Undergraduate Student Government and will be pursuing a career in politics after college.

Unfinished Business: Slavery and Violence Against Women

Panel discussion on how abolition and the treatment of women in the 1800s has morphed today’s issues of trafficking and domestic violence Slavery as it existed in the 1800s in the US has morphed into today's issue of human trafficking, while domestic violence, despite the laws against it, continues to exist. Women in the 1800s, especially if married, had few human rights. Men controlled women's lives and bodies. Women could be heated, raped in marriage, put in mental institutions, and basically disposed of by the men in their lives. Their children could be taken from them and, if their fathers chose, put into apprenticeships even against their wills. Women cannot wait another 100 years to right these wrongs. We need to take action NOW.

Convenor Patricia Latona, RN, MA, UN Representative, Zonta International

Patricia Latona is a member of Zonta International and member of their United Nation’s committee: Zonta is a global organization that works to advance the status of women worldwide. She represents Zonta on the NGO Committee on the Status of Women; and the NGO Committee to Stop Trafficking in Persons where she is the convener of the Exploitation and Demand Task Force.

Pat recently participated on the Anti-Trafficking UN GIFT BOX Project held immediately prior to the Super-bowl, which over the course of 2 weeks ! disseminated over 2000 pieces of HumanTrafficking awareness literature while collecting the same number of signatures.

Pat is also a Board Member of Sparrow’s Hope, an imminent non-profit, which will provide a call-in and drop-in center for victims of trafficking. Their ultimate goal is to provide a long term safe house for survivors of trafficking.

As a Board Member of Sparrow’s Hope, Pat participates on the Westchester County Anti-Trafficking Task Force.

Pat is a Registered Nurse with a Masters in Nursing Administration. She recently stepped down as chair of the MPA program at Long Island University’s Rockland campus; where she continues as an adjunct professor teaching MPA Thesis students and the mandated Child Abuse and School Violence courses to education and counseling graduate students .

Panelists:

Dr. Catherine Cerulli, J.D., PhD,

Director, University of Rochester Susan B. Anthony Institute Dr. Catherine Cerulli is the Director of the Susan B. Anthony Center for Women’s Leadership and the Laboratory of Interpersonal Violence and Victimization (LIVV), Associate Professor of Psychiatry, at the University of Rochester. An attorney with a doctorate in criminal justice, Dr. Cerulli has long been at the forefront of issues related to domestic violence and child abuse. She was formerly an Assistant District Attorney in Monroe County, New York, where she created a special misdemeanor domestic violence unit in 1995.

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Dr. Cerulli currently has funding from the Center for Disease Control to work with a national IPV hotline to help address the intersection of violence and mental health. She is a founding and current Board Member for the Crisis Nursery of Greater Rochester, Inc., a grass roots organization providing emergency respite care for greater Rochester area families with young children.

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Cecilia Gastón, BA, MPA,

Executive Director, Violence Intervention Program

Cecilia Gastón is Executive Director of the Violence Intervention Program, Inc. n active board member of The New York State Coalition Against Domestic Violence and The New York Woman’s Agenda. Ms. Gastón has served as a consultant and board member for the Committee for Hispanic Children and Families, a board member for the New York Women’s Foundation, member of the New York Women’s Foundation Grants Committee, and a member of Women in Health Management. She was a National Urban Fellow and recipient of the Capstone Award in Public Administration.

Ramatu Ahmed,

Past Dep. Executive Secretary-General of the Ghanaian Association of NY Ramatu Ahmed holds a diploma from the Pan African Institute for Development in Cameroon. A progressive with a tremendous knowledge of the African community in New York, she is the community educator with the New York University School of Medicine -MARHABA, Project, (Medical Research on Moslem Americans Reaching for Health and Building Alliance).

She serves as the community liaison for the Dr. Martin Luther King Diaspora Medical practice in the Bronx, providing healthcare services to the African community.

Unfinished Business: The Business Case For Women's Economic Empowerment

Women’s Equality Starts with Economic Equity - Closing the pay gap and empowering women In the 1880s as a teacher, Susan B. Anthony earned 75 percent less than her male colleagues. Women were not permitted to be educated, and were barred from many professions. She and her colleagues worked hard to change that, and women found ways to become physicians, attorneys, politicians, and scientists. Today, even though there are more options, the bias against women, and especially women of color, still exists. The panel will address the business case for women and why it is critical for society to bring forward a more, inclusive work environment.

Convener

Wendy Amengual Wark, Founding Partner of Inclusion Strategy

Wendy Amengual Wark is the Founding Partner of Inclusion Strategy, a firm dedicated to transformative inclusion that drives greater innovation and market share. She has a 20-year record of achievement with Fortune 500 corporations, non-profit organizations, and the public sector. Ms Wark has advanced inclusion at many organizations, including: The NYC Department of Administrative Services - Citywide EEO and Diversity, The Global Health Fellows Program II/The Public !

Health Institute, FedEx Freight, Inc., the NYC Department of Transportation, the NYC Commission on the Status of Women, New York University, the NYS MTA, Stryker Endoscopy, Transform, and the County of Santa Clara. She is a member of the Training Roster for Gender Equality, UN Women and was New York City’s Liaison to the United Nations’ Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. She has been a board or committee member of: the Tri-State Diversity Council, SHRM’s Diversity and Inclusion Standards Taskforce; WTS–Greater New York Chapter, Diversity Committee, and Friends of the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women.

Wark has studied at Columbia University in the City of New York, the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and The City College of New York, CUNY.

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Dr. Patricia Flynn, Professor, Bentley University and former Dean of the McCallum Graduate School of Business

Professor Patricia M. Flynn, Ph.D., is Trustee Professor of Economics and Management at Bentley University, where she served as Dean of the McCallum Graduate School of Business from 1992 to 2002. Dr. Flynn’s research and teaching focus on technologybased economic development, corporate governance and women in business. Her publications include Technology Life Cycles and Human Resources and Turbulence in the American Workplace.

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Carmen Oveissi Field, BA, MS Principal, Deliotte Discovery

Carmen Oveissi Field is a Discovery Principal in the Jersey City, New Jersey office.

She has over twenty years of experience in information technology, with a focus on supporting complex electronic discovery matters. Ms. Field has conducted penetration testing for financial institutions and implemented secure information technology solutions at IBM Global Services and has proposed and implemented secure solutions while on the NASA Headquarters core architecture engineering team.

Lauren Gula, BA, MA,

Manager, Social Sustainability & Women’s Empowerment, UN Global Compact Lauren Gula joined the UN Global Compact’s Social Sustainability team in 2009 and currently manages the Women’s Empowerment Principles, Equality Means Business (WEPs), a joint initiative with UN Women. In addition to the WEPs, Lauren has overseen a number of workstreams including the UN Global Compact’s Human Rights Working Group. Lauren will address the business case that drives the WEPs and how it has grown to address inclusion and women’s economic empowerment worldwide.

CELEBRATING 125 YEARS THE PROGRAM UNFINISHED BUSINESS: EXPLORING NEW HORIZONS FOR SOCIETAL CHANGE MORNING Begins at 9:00 AM Greetings Leslie Wright, Chair, 125th Anniversary Opening Remarks Lynn Sherr, Emcee Author, Broadcast Journalist Dramatic Reading Sojourner Truth, “Ain’t I a Woman?”, read by Jennifer Parmelee Delivered in Akron Ohio at the Women's Convention in 1851.

Welcome Dr. Jamshed Bharusha, President, The Cooper Union for Advancement of Science and Art Mary E. Singletary, President, National Council of Women of the US Presentation of the Congressional Extension of Remarks The Honorable Carolyn Maloney (NY-12) Keynote Address Unfinished Business: The Power of the Vote Dr. Martha Burk, reknowned feminist and author Interviewed by Rita Henley Jensen, Managing Editor, Women’s eNews Unfinished Business: Women’s Studies - Engaging Communities Angela Clark-Taylor, Program Manager, Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Rochester Unfinished Business: Slavery and Violence against Women Convener Patricia Latona, RN, UN Representative, Zonta International Panelists: Catherine Cerulli, J.D., PhD, Director, University of Rochester, Susan B. Anthony Institute; Cecelia Gastón, Executive Director, Violence Intervention Program; Ramatu Ahmed, Past Deputy Secretary-General, Ghanian Association of NY Dramatic Reading Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “The Solitude of Self ”, read by Julia Weisner Delivered in 1892 in Washington DC before the Committee of the Judiciary

Unfinished Business: The Business Case for Women’s Economic Empowerment Convener Wendy Amengual Wark, Founding Partner of Inclusion Strategy Panelists: Dr. Patricia Flynn, Professor, Bentley University and former Dean, McCallum Graduate School of Business; Carmen Oveissi Field, Principal, Deliotte Discovery; Lauren Gula, Manager, Social Sustainability & Women's Empowerment UN Global Compact Awarding of the Susan B. Anthony Award Presented to Dr. Eleanor K. Baum

By Mary E. Singletary, President, National Council of Women of the US Unfinished Business: The Morning Wrap and Call to Action Beverly Cooper Neufeld, Director, Equal Pay Coalition NYC LUNCH at local restaurants - listing provided AFTERNOON Begins at 2:15 PM Keynote Address Unfinished Business: Looking Back, Guiding Progress Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner, PhD Lecturer, author and women’s studies originator Unfinished Business: Women Giving Back to Support Women’s Progress Convener, Dr. Jacqueline Plumez, psychologist and writer Panelists: Marianne Virgilio, University of Rochester Trusts and Estates; Lori Blaker, President of TTi Global and committed to Women of Tomorrow Mentorship & Scholarship Program; Mary Singletary, President, National Council of Women, US. Dramatic Reading Susan B. Anthony, “Working Woman”, read by Diana Hinojosa Delivered first in1871. Anthony was born in 1820 and died in 1906 Unfinished Business: Expectations of the Right to Vote Anita, turning 18, relates her thoughts on this important theme Unfinished Business: Challenges for the Next Generation Convener, Dr. Teresa Dahlberg, Dean, Albert Nerken School of Engineering, Cooper Union Panelists: Quentin Walcott, Co-Executive Director, Connect; Nancy Ploeger, President, Manhattan Chamber of Commerce; Gloria Feldt, Co-founder and President, Take the Lead Closing Remarks Mary E. Singletary, President, National Council of Women of the US

Giving Back To Support Women's Progress How can women use their money and time to make a difference?

This is the question the panelists will address as they look at how and why women give, and how they can make a difference not only with their money, but with their discretionary time and their power as leaders. As more and more women enter into the workforce and at higher salaries, they can make a difference, and as they make choices about their discretionary time, they can change the world.

Convener Dr. Jacqueline H. Plumez, Ph.D. !

Psychologist and Author

Jacqueline Hornor Plumez, Ph.D. is a psychologist, career counselor and writer.

She practices psychotherapy and career counseling in Larchmont, New York.

In 1990 her 500 fellow psychologists in Westchester County voted her their Distinguished Psychologist and they gave her their Distinguished Service Award in 1993.

Her articles have been published in such places as The New York Times Magazine, Cosmopolitan and Ladies' Home Journal. She has written three books, Divorcing a Corporation, Successful Adoption and MOTHER POWER: Discover The Difference That Women Have Made All Over The World.

MOTHER POWER explored the many areas of social change in which women have had a major impact; everything from stopping wars to setting up food banks to combatting children's diseases. In it she analyzes how ordinary women have accomplished extraordinary things, and also how some women's movements which showed extraordinary promise, like the Million Mom March for gun control have failed to accomplish their goals.

She received a B.S. in Business Administration from Bucknell University and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Columbia University.In addition to her psychotherapy practice, Dr. Plumez is currently working on two books: a novel about women leading peace movements and a non-fiction book, The Bitch in Your Head, about how mean many people are to themselves.

Panelists: Marianne M. Virgilio, BA, MS, University of Rochester Trusts and Estates

Marianne M. Virgilio, CFRE, is a gift planner in the University of Rochester’s Office of Trusts and Estates where she has served for ten years. Marianne has devoted 40 years to the non-profit sector including work with colleges and universities, social service agencies and health care organizations. She presently serves on the board of directors of the University of Rochester Women’s Club where she also chairs the scholarship committee, as a director of the Allergy Advocacy Association, and with her church.

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Lori Blaker, President of TTi Global and committed to Women of Tomorrow Mentorship & Scholarship Program

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Lori Blaker is President/CEO of TTi Global and oversees operations on five continents with offices spanning the globe including; Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, India, Japan, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, Thailand, Venezuela, UK and most recently Afghanistan.

In 2012, she was a part of the first ever US Department of Commerce trade mission to Afghanistan. Under Blaker’s leadership TTi Global was ranked as one of the fastest growing private companies in America (according to Inc. Magazine). Blaker believes it is important to give back and has made a significant commitment to the community by mentoring disadvantaged young women in Detroit, through the Women of Tomorrow program, a mentoring and scholarship program that empowers at-risk young women.

Mary E. Singletary, RN, BS,

President, National Council of Women of the United States Mary E. Singletary is president of the National Council of Women of the United States. Ms Singletary‘s passion and concern for the empowerment of women and girls gave her the opportunity to serve in the administration of three New Jersey Governors, as N.J. Director of Women, and Director of the Governor’s North Jersey Office.

Under Ms Singletary’s leadership, the NCW-US has greatly expanded its humanitarian efforts, and its support and implementation of the United Nations’ Millennium Development goals especially as they relate to education for girls, elimination of extreme poverty, health services for women and children, and an end to violence against women.

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Unfinished Business: Challenges For The Next Generation

When Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton met each other in Seneca Falls in 1851, they immediately saw the potential of working together to make a difference. The women saw that there were critical issues that needed to be addressed. Their goals were the abolition of slavery, equal pay, equal opportunity, and equal rights, and education for women and girls. Today, although society is changing, many of these issues are still of concern. We need learn how we cancreate societies that can achieve equality before another decade, let alone another 200 years, go by.

Convener

Dr. Teresa Dahlberg, Ph.D., Dean of Albert Nerken School of Engineering, Cooper Union

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Convener Dr. Teresa Dahlberg, is Dean of

the Albert Nerken School of Engineering and Chief Academic Officer of The Cooper Union. Prior to joining The Cooper Union in 2013, she was Professor of Computer Science and Associate Dean of the College of Computing and Informatics at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Charlotte. At UNC Charlotte, Dahlberg established

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Research Lab and the Diversity in Information Technology Institute where she was principal investigator for over $20 million in research awards. She co-founded the STARS Computing Corps, a National Science Foundation (NSF) alliance for broadening participation in computing. As STARS Director, Dahlberg led the creation of a program designed to strengthen the K-20 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) pipeline, and oversaw adoption of the program by 50 colleges and universities nationwide. Dahlberg created other programs including Socially Relevant Computing Research for Undergraduates: Visualization, Virtual Environments, Gaming and Networking; Pathways from Community College to Graduate School; and Ph.D. Fellowships for Computing Sciences.

Panelists:

Nancy Ploeger,

President, Manhattan Chamber of Commerce

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Nancy Ploeger has been the President of the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce for 20 years. Ploeger launched a variety of economic development programs and committees and established the Chamber’s relationships with government officials, increasing the membership to 10,000 members and subscribers. Ploeger is one of the founding members of the International Women Entrepreneurial Challenge (IWEC), a program that inspired the creation and strengthening of a global SME network of women business owners from countries in Europe, South America, India, Africa and Central Asia.

Quentin Walcott,

Co-Executive Director CONNECT

Quentin Walcott is an anti-violence activist and educator. For the past eighteen years, Walcott has led initiatives and programs that address violence against women.

Walcott developed and launched some of New York City’s anti-violence programs, and took his expertise to over eleven African countries. For six years, Walcott cochaired the Committee on Working with Abusive Partners (CoWAP), a series of programs that explore best practices and transformative polices regarding abuse partner intervention services in New York City. His work has been recognized by NYC-NOW, UN Women and Vice President Joe Biden.

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Gloria Feldt,

Co-founder and President, Take the Lead Gloria Feldt is a nationally renowned inspirational speaker, activist, and author on women, power, and leadership. Her latest book, No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power reveals why women are stuck at 18 percent of top leadership roles and, shows how women can redefine power, and reach parity for their own and society’s good. In 2012, she co-founded Take The Lead to prepare, develop, inspire, and propel women to take leadership positions across all sectors by 2025. Feldt teaches “Women, Power, and Leadership” at Arizona State University and serves on the board of the Women’s Media Center.

Moderator: Lynn Sherr !

Lynn Sherr, the Emcee for the Conference, is an award-winning broadcaster and author. Sherr spent more than thirty years with ABC News, covering a wide range of stories – from women's issues and social change to investigative reports, politics and the space program – at “20/20” and World News. She continues to broadcast on a variety of platforms, to write for magazines and online, and to lecture across the country.

Widely acknowledged as an expert on the life of Susan B. Anthony and the suffrage movement, she is also the author of a number of bestselling books, including SWIM: Why We Love the Water; Outside the Box: My Unscripted Life of Love, Loss and Television News; Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words; and Tall Blondes: A Book About Giraffes, which was also the subject of a one-hour documentary for the PBS Nature program. In June, her new biography, Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space, will be published.

Interviewer: Rita Lealey Jensen

Interviewing Burk is Rita Henley Jensen. Jensen is the Founder and Editor in Chief of the award-winning, nonprofit news service Women's eNews (www.womensenews.org) and it’s sister site Arabic Women’s eNews (www.awomensenews.org). A former senior writer for the National Law Journal and columnist for The New York Times Syndicate, Jensen has won an armload of awards, including the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Alumni award, the Alicia Patterson fellowship, and the Lloyd P. Burns Public Service prize. Jensen is also a survivor of domestic violence and a former welfare mother who earned degrees from Ohio State University and Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

Women's eNews is a daily, online, nonprofit news service covering issues of particular concern to women worldwide. To date it has won over 40 journalism awards.

Unfinished Business: The Morning Wrap and Call To Action

Beverly Cooper Neufield, Director of the Equal Pay Coalition NYC and Past

President of the New York Women's Agenda

Ms. Neufield is a non-profit consultant and advocate for women’s economic equity and President of BCN Consulting Group LLC, which provides comprehensive assistance to nonprofits to create change through advocacy, programming, and organizational development.

As President of the New York Women’s Agenda, Ms. Neufeld invigorated the 20 year old institution with innovative programming, strategic partnerships and infrastructure improvements. She conceived of the New York Women’s Business Principles Initiative, introduced in March 2013 at a forum at Bloomberg LP. Ms. Neufeld co-created and expanded the Equal Pay Coalition NYC, a vibrant campaign promoting pay equity reform. Ms. Neufeld is a member of the steering committee of the coalition of 850 groups promoting New York State Governor Cuomo’s 10 point Women’s Equality Agenda, and sits on the national Paycheck Fairness Coalition.

During her tenure as Executive Director of the White House Project, a not-for-profit focused on women’s leadership, she led groundbreaking research on women executives and public perceptions; started an online resource to identify women leaders for the media (now called SheSource), launched the EPIC Awards to honor culture changers, as well as “Vote, Run, Lead”, a training program for women interested in politics.

Ms. Neufeld was the Finance Director for Congresswoman Nita Lowey where she helped build a national women’s leadership and funding effort, Women LEAD. Her board service includes 2020 Women on Boards, Free the Children, Sing for Hope, Women’s Campaign Forum, and Westchester Children’s Association. Ms Neufeld will wrap up the morning session and bring perspective on the content of the conference.

Congratulations To The

125 Years of Service Walter and Leslie Wright

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CONGRATULATIONS! NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN OF THE US Celebration of their 125th Anniversary “Thank you for addressing concerns of women in pursuit of social, economic and political equality.”

International Affairs Division National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, Inc. Ms. Beverly A. Nance, UN Representative Dr. Beryl Dorsett, International Governor

Thanks

To The 125th Anniversary Planning Committee

Leslie Wright, Chair, 125th Anniversary Committee, Chair Mary Singletary Lyna Castillo-Javier Christina Boyle Abaynesh Asrat Lois Beilin Beverly Nance Carol Themm Brenda Smith Wendy Amengual Wark Marcella Maxwell Kate Cerulli

Volunteers: Beagy (Bee) Fils-Aime Sara Golino Cristal Espejo With appreciation to Cooper Union, Mindy Lang, David Greenstein and the President's Office.

Sponsors, Appreciation & Board Members

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The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art congratulates DR. ELEANOR BAUM, Dean Emerita of the Albert Nerken School of Engineering on receiving the Susan B. Anthony Award.