ANNUAL MEETING AND LUNCHEON
Topic: Democracy and Equal Rights after Dobbs
Speaker: Donna Lieberman*
Executive Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union
Friday, May 5, 2023
10:30 am to 2 pm
Scarsdale Golf Club
*Donna Lieberman has been executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union since December 2001. Under her leadership, the NYCLU has expanded the scope and depth of its work, using litigation, advocacy, and state-wide organizing to promote civil rights and civil liberties. Among the NYCLU’s many accomplishments during her tenure are protecting the right to counsel, reforming stop and frisk and solitary confinement, repealing the 50a secrecy law for law enforcement, representing Edie Windsor to win marriage equality, expanding abortion rights, winning voting rights in East Ramapo school board elections, overhauling conditions in the psychiatric emergency rooms in Kings County Hospital Center, and founding the Education Policy Center and the Teen Activist Program.
The NYCLU is widely recognized as the state’s leading voice for freedom, justice, and equality, advocating for those whose rights and liberties have been denied.
Lieberman began her public interest legal career as a criminal defense lawyer in the South Bronx office of the Legal Aid Society, and she later served as executive director of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys. For a decade, she served on the faculty of Urban Legal Studies Program at City College. She joined the NYCLU in 1989 and was the founding director of its Reproductive Rights project.
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Events from Earlier this Year
FALL MEMBERSHIP COFFEE
Monday, September 19, 2022
9:30 am to 11:00 am
Outdoors under the dining tent on Spencer Place in Scarsdale Village
All current and prospective members were welcomed for coffee and conversation to learn about the League of Women Voters of Scarsdale.
Special guest Lauren Miller, counsel in the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program where she focuses on voting rights and elections, spoke about The January 6 Hearings and the Big Lie’s Ongoing Threats to our Democracy. Miller discussed how false claims about the 2020 election have prompted the passage of anti-voter laws and mistrust in the electoral process.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT SPEAKER EVENT
Topic: Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
Speaker: Rabia Muqaddam
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
9:15 am to 11:30 am
Scarsdale Public Library, Scott Room
Please note new date, time, and location
Event was free of charge and in the format of a morning coffee instead of a luncheon.
Rabia Muqaddam discussed her work and the impact of the recent Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on women’s access to healthcare.
Muqaddam is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights, headquartered in New York, where she has worked since 2017. She is lead counsel in the challenges to the abortion bans and restrictions passed by the Oklahoma legislature in 2021 and 2022. She previously worked as a litigation associate at Dechert LLP. Muqaddam holds a J.D. from Cornell Law School, where she was a president of the Cornell Law Students for Reproductive Justice, an online editor for the Cornell Law Review, and a participant in the LGBT Clinical programs. She also holds a B.A. from Cornell University.
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