Celebration of Local Women's Leaders

2006 Honorees

 

            One of our founding members:

                    Florence Cohen

                        

Women who have been advocating for and providing services to women in prison:

 

                        Naima Black

                                                                               

                        Messages from Mom

 

2005 Honorees

 

Women who built the feminist movement in this city in the 1970’s: 

                                               

Ernesta Ballard, Founder of Philadelphia NOW

         

Jean Ferson, Past President of Philadelphia NOW

Elizabeth Parziale, Past President of Philadelphia NOW

 

Bertha Waters, Advocate for gender equity in education

 

 

2004 Honorees

Leslie Anastasio, Executive Director of NARAL-PA

Lisette Shirdan-Harris, President of the National Coalition of One Hundred Black Women, Penna. Chapter

 

 

2003 Honorees

Jean Alexander, the first African-American woman to to be elected
President of the Transport Workers Union, Local 234.

Mary Day Kent, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Pamela Jones Burnley, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Featured Speaker: Olga Vives, Vice President for Action, National
Organization for Women: "Israeli and Palestinian Women Working for Peace."

April 21, 2003, 5:30pm at the Philadelphia Ethical Society,
1906 Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia PA.

 

 

2002 Honorees

Francesca Alvarado, executive board of Philadelphia NOW.

Phoebe Schellenberg, International Wages for Housework.

Rosa Woods, executive board of Philadelphia NOW.

Featured Speaker: Carolyn Jacobson, Coordinator of the Contraceptive Coverage Project of the Coalition of Labor Union Women, who spoke on the campaign to obtain contraceptive prescription equity in Pennsylvania and around the country.

April 22, 2002

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