DL21C's Women's Issues Committee presents a forum on
Women's Issues and the 2008 New York State Legislative Agenda with State Senator Liz Krueger (D-NY-Manhattan's East Side) State Assemblywoman Deborah Glick (D-NY-Greenwich Village) Moderated by: Ellen Chesler, Distinguished Lecturer, Director of the Eleanor Roosevelt Initiative on Women and Public Policy, Hunter College
This will be a provocative conversation with three of our city's boldest women leaders, who will discuss issues ranging from reproductive health to domestic partner rights to the laws and policies that most impact the lives of New York State’s women and families.
About Senator Liz Krueger
Senator Krueger is a champion of universal single-payer, paid family leave, increased access to prescription drug coverage, paid family leave, as well as tenants’ rights, affordable housing, women's rights, social services, public education and a more open and transparent government. In her first term in the Senate, Senator Krueger was a leader in the successful fight to pass the Women’s Health and Wellness Act. She has developed legislation for the Senate Democrats that authorizes stem cell research, and the use of state funds to support such research. Krueger is also the sponsor of the Breastfeeding Mothers' Bill of Rights.
About Assemblymember Deborah Glick
Deborah Glick is the first openly lesbian or gay member of the New York State legislature. Her legislative victories include passage of the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act (SONDA), which was finally signed into law in December of 2002, and the state-wide domestic partnership registry, which is still awaiting passage. Most recently, Assemblymember Glick’s Hospital Visitation Bill became law in 2004, providing domestic partners the same rights that spouses and next-of-kin have when caring for a loved one in a hospital or nursing facility. She has worked on issues of concern to women for thirty years, including advocating for reproductive freedom, a change in the rape statutes, and women's health concerns.
About Ellen Chesler
Ellen Chesler is Distinguished Lecturer and Director of the Eleanor Roosevelt Initiative on Women and Public Policy at Roosevelt House at Hunter College . Previously, Chesler was senior fellow at The Open Society Institute, the international foundation started by George Soros, where she directed the foundation's $35 million program in reproductive health rights. Chesler is the author of Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America, and is co-editor of Where Human Rights Begin: Health, Sexuality and Women in the New Millennium. She has also written works that have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Republic, and the Women's Review of Books. She currently chairs the Advisory Committee of the Women’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch and also serves on the board of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.