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The Seneca Falls Revisited virtual conference, hosted by Civically Re-Engaged Women (CREW), will address the significance of the many women who have come before us and the work still to be done to achieve equal opportunity for women. The virtual celebration of the 100th Anniversary of women’s right to vote will be held July 23rd-25th. Register for the virtual experience on Crewomen.com TODAY!
Learn about some of the speakers for the Seneca Falls Revisited Virtual Conference below.
Linda Moroney is the co-founder of the independent film production company, Low to the Ground. She is the founder of the Rochester Documentary Filmmakers Group, co-founder of the Rochester Teen Film Festival & the Rochester Teen Film Camp, and teaches documentary film at St. John Fisher College. Moroney has most notably produced and directed the 2019 New York Emmy Award-winning, “TURN THE PAGE” which is about a literacy program for incarcerated parents and their children on the outside at Ontario County Jail. Shortly after the 2016 election she directed and produced the short film, “ELECTION DAY, 2016”, an ode to Susan B. Anthony. Her other notable full-length film producing credits include, “THE LAST DALAI LAMA?”, and “RAM DASS FIERCE GRACE”, which was named by Newsweek magazine as one of the five best non-fiction films of 2002 and was broadcasted nationally on PBS. She has produced several short films including Emily Hubley’s award-winning “SET SET SPIKE” (2001), which was an official selection in the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. She was previously the Managing Director/Programmer for the 360 | 365 Film Festival.
Annette Ramos was born and raised in New York city and has worked as an actor, a bilingual storyteller, an educator and teaching artist. In 2011, she used her voice and talent to help establish the Rochester Latino Theater Company, Inc. along with Stephanie Paredes, a fellow Rochester actor. Ramos is committed to making sure that the Rochester Latinx community is represented in the Rochester theater and arts communities. Regarding herself as an “artist turned advocate,” she is the executive director at the theater company and is passionate about cultivating and developing the next generation of young actors. She also serves as a community connector for the Geva Theatre Center.
Ramos currently serves on the Advisory Board of the National Latinx Theatre Commons and in Rochester, she actively serves on the Board of The Arts and Cultural Council of Greater Rochester where she co-chairs the Diversity Committee. She is a member of the Rochester Hispanic Business Association and works closely with many community organizations where she can connect these sectors to economic and arts rich opportunities. She continues to serve as a community bridge within the Upstate regional arts field increasing diverse audiences in major art institutions which otherwise would not be accessible to those with economic challenges.
Bridie Farrell is a retired United States speed skater and the President and CEO of American Loves Kids. Her non-profit ofocuses on educating the public about child sexual abuse, connecting survivors to resources, and working with Congress on policy solutions. Her organization is committed to ending child sexual abuse in ice rinks, playing fields, pool decks, and everywhere our children run, jump, and play. Farrell herself is a survivor and an advocate on behalf of all survivors of childhood sexual abuse and exploitation.
She is frequent commentator in the media and a distinguished speaker about issues related to child abuse. In 2019 she worked to help pass the the Child Victims Act in New York State, which would extend the statute of limitation for survivors of child sexual abuse, thereby allowing victims to seek access to a justice system from which they had previously been time barred. As a result of her advocacy, both Arizona and New Jersey recently passed into law versions of the CVA with overwhelming bi-partisan support.
Honorable Victoria Steele (AZ State Senator): is serving in the 51st Legislature representing North/Central Tucson. She is the Ranking Democrat on the Transportation Committee and is also a member of the Health, and Insurance and Retirement Committees. She focuses on legislative issues related to Arizona’s economic recovery, job creation, access to health care, and improving education.Representative Steele is Native American (Seneca/Mingo). She grew up in a small town in northwest Pennsylvania. Previously, she enjoyed a twenty-five-year career as a television and radio news anchor including positions at KOLD-TV, KNST, and KFYI Radio. She has garnered awards in both the journalism and counseling fields.
Honorable Linda B. Rosenthal represents the 67th Assembly district, which includes the Upper West Side and parts of Clinton/Hell’s Kitchen in Manhattan. Rosenthal was elected in 2006 after serving for 13 years as Manhattan District Director and Director of Special Projects for United States Congressman Jerrold Nadler. In her role as Assemblywoman, Rosenthal has established herself as a leading advocate on affordable housing, domestic violence, consumer protection, government reform, environmental issues and animal cruelty. Most recently she introduced a bill that will ban the sale of fur in New York, by 2021.
Rosenthal received a B.A. in History from the University of Rochester. She is a life-long resident of the Upper West Side.
Aura Vasquez is an organizer, advocate, and activist for environmental and social justice issues with more than 10 years of experience in New York, Washington D.C, and California. A native of Colombia, she brings her experiences as a Latina immigrant, woman of color and successful environmental leader to many issues concerning frontline communities.
Ms. Vasquez is the Climate Justice Director for the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) where she oversees the 14 organizations that carry out CPD’s national climate justice efforts. She also represents CPD on national committees such as the Ready for 100% campaign, the People’s Climate March, and the U.S. Climate Action Network.
Susan Goodier, PhD studies U.S. women’s activism, particularly woman suffrage activism, from 1840 to 1920. She did her graduate work at SUNY at Albany, earning a master’s degree in Gender History and a doctorate in Public Policy History, with subfields in International Gender and Culture and Black Women’s Studies. She returned for a second master’s degree in Women’s Studies, focusing on transnational women’s movements. At SUNY Oneonta she teaches courses in Women’s History, New York State History, Civil War and Reconstruction, and Progressivism. Goodier has served as a public scholar for Humanities NY and continues to speak to audiences about black and white women and suffrage activism. The University of Illinois published her first book, No Votes for Women: The New York State Anti-Suffrage Movement, in 2013. Her most recent book, Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State (2017), coauthored with Karen Pastorello, helped mark the centennial of women voting in the state. Goodier’s current projects include a manuscript tentatively entitled, “Networks of Activism: Black Women in the New York Suffrage Movement,” and a biography of Louisa M. Jacobs, the daughter of Harriet Jacobs (author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl).
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is a Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY). She teaches classes in Constitutional Law, Race and the Law, Evidence, and Gender and Justice. She taught in the Africana Studies Program at Vassar College prior to John Jay. She is a civil rights attorney who litigated cases for Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama, Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc.. She addresses audiences nationally and internationally. Gloria J. Browne-Marshall has spoken on issues of law and justice in France, Ghana, Rwanda, England, Wales, Canada, South Africa and before the United Nations in Geneva.
Professor Browne-Marshall is an essayist and legal commentator who covers the United States Supreme Court and major cases. She has given commentary on decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions and national legal issues for CNN, MSNBC, CBS, BBC, NPR, WHYY, WVON as well as other media, nation-wide. Professor Browne-Marshall is a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. She is the founder/director of The Law and Policy Group, Inc., a “think tank” for the community and Executive Editor of “The Report on the Status of Black Women and Girls(r).”
Professor Browne-Marshall is a Pulitzer Center grant recipient. She completed the New York City Marathon and is working on her debut novel, a book of historical fiction.
Sally Roesch Wagner, PhD was awarded one of the first doctorates in the country for work in women’s studies (UC Santa Cruz) and a founder of one the first college-level women’s studies programs in the United States (CSU Sacramento), Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner has taught women’s studies courses for 50 years. She currently serves as an adjunct faculty member in the Syracuse University Renée Crown University Honors Program.
She wrote the faculty guide for Not for Ourselves Alone, Ken Burns’ documentary on Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, and has appeared in that film and numerous history films and radio programs. Dr. Wagner was selected as one of “21 Leaders for the 21st Century” by Women’s E-News in 2015. She serves on the New York Suffrage Centennial Commission.
Honorable Cynthia Coffman served as the state’s 38th Attorney General. Since she took office in January 2015, General Coffman has focused on community outreach, consumer protection and protecting public safety and Colorado’s sovereignty. She worked in development for children’s hospitals and pediatric research for several years before completing law school at Georgia State University College of Law in Atlanta in 1991. As Colorado’s Attorney General, Cynthia H. Coffman maintains a commitment to her office’s mission of providing ethical, professional and independent legal services to the State of Colorado and all of its citizens.
