The Yonkers Public Library, the Links, and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. joined for a celebration:
International Women's Day 2018
"Women Leaders Champion
Human Rights and Dignity"
Sunday, 4 March 2018, 2pm - 4pm
Yonkers Riverfront Library
1 Larkin Center, Yonkers, New York
Celebrating and Recognizing Westchester's Amazing Women Leaders
Special Guest Speaker:
H. E. Ambassador Loreen Bannis-Roberts
Permanent Mission of the Commonwealth of
Dominica to the United Nations
Discussion session moderated by Tara Rosenblum, Anchor, Channel 12 News
Special guests:
-Karen Cheeks-Lomax, Esq., Executive Director, My Sister’s Place
- Councilwoman Corazón Pineda-Isaac, Yonkers City Council
A reception in the art gallery with refreshments followed the program. The gallery showed the exhibit Unsettled,
a show exploring and representing woman's voices.
Permanent Mission of the Commonwealth of
Dominica to the United Nations
Discussion session moderated by Tara Rosenblum, Anchor, Channel 12 News
Special guests:
-Karen Cheeks-Lomax, Esq., Executive Director, My Sister’s Place
- Councilwoman Corazón Pineda-Isaac, Yonkers City Council
A reception in the art gallery with refreshments followed the program. The gallery showed the exhibit Unsettled,
a show exploring and representing woman's voices.
A full house greeted UNA Westchester’s celebration of International Women's Day on 4 March 2018. The well-attended event saw Mayor Spano of Yonkers, State Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Channel 12’s Tara Rosenbaum, and their excellencies, Ambassadors to the United Nations Loreen Bannis-Roberts (Commonwealth Dominica and Guest Speaker) and Dr. Henry Mac Donald (retired, Suriname) among many others.
Some of the very successful celebration is captured below.
Some of the very successful celebration is captured below.