Marilyn Tedeschi
NYS Convention Director

Convention offers a variety of workshops geared towards leadership development, personal development and “all things” AAUW. Our goal is to provide something for everyone. The workshops for the 2012 convention are listed below. More details coming soon!

The Saturday workshops will be:

The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influence on Early American Feminists. Sally Roesch Wagner, executive director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation in Fayetteville, will explore how the women‟s rights movement took form in the territory of the Haudenosaunee, the six nations of the Iroquois confederacy, where women have always lived with far greater status and authority than in the non-native world.  

Harriet Tubman – Champion of Freedom. Karen Hill, Executive Director of the Harriet Tubman Home in Auburn, will talk about the inspirational work of Harriet Tubman and its importance in the women‟s rights movement.

Uncrowned Queens.    Barbara A. Seals Nevergold, Ph.D. (left) and Peggy Brooks-Bertram, Ph.D. founded Uncrowned Queens in 1999 with the purpose of identifying, preserving and disseminating little known histories of African-American Women that were instrumental in building a vital community.

As the premier online organization working to preserve the regional histories of African American women and men across the country, the Uncrowned Queens Institute continues to develop innovative techniques to make the "telling, preservation and dissemination of your stories" easier and more efficient.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Slept and Worked Here.   Coline Jenkins is a direct descendent of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Her work with national women's organizations culminated in the successful campaign to place the marble statue of the early suffragists in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C.

Sunday will bring us:

Chautauqua Women: Inspiration and Influence on Chautauqua and the Nation.   Janet Myers Northrup, author of Founding Women, will highlight the contributions of women at Chautauqua with a focus on the women who were suffragists, temperance advocates, arts supporters, and leaders of nearly every national women's group from 1874-1940.

Seneca Army Depot Peace Encampment.   Betty Bayer, Professor of Women's Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges will discuss the impact of this early “Occupy” protest.

The Temp Economy: From Kelly Girls to Permatemps in Postwar America.    Dr. Erin Hatton, author of a book by the same name and Professor of Sociology at SUNY Buffalo, brings these themes together in an examination of the temporary help industry and the rise of the new economy. Her current projects examine the recent return of the strikebreaker industry and the political, legal, and cultural makings of second-class work and workers

Clean Money, Clean Elections.    Irene Miller is founder of New York Citizens for Clean Elections and is public policy chair of AAUW‟s Kingston Branch. She will share insights about how corporations got “personhood” and the right to fund campaigns, how campaign money affects women, our schools, health, environment, and the economy. Find out what you and AAUW can do to help make this happen.