Branch Meetings & Special Events 2025–2026

For details on upcoming events, see the current CHIPS on the Newsletter page.
AAUW 2025-26 Programs ~ Printable List

Schedule for 2025-2026
Branch Meetings & Programsspecial events

Branch Meetings/Programs are held at the Greenburgh Library and on ZOOM unless noted otherwise. In the event of inclement weather, check your email for a notice of change. In-person format cancellations will be made and transmitted no later than 2 hours before start time.

2025 — 2026 Programs
Westchester Women: Engaged & Inspired

Please join us a half hour before meetings for social time to meet other members and speakers and to enjoy refreshments.

WED, SEPTEMBER 10 at 5:15pm at La Catena Restaurant
NYS AAUW: Priorities, Issues and Concerns
NYS AAUW President Suzanne Young-Mercer, and President Elect Sandra Camillo, will update us on national and state priorities, issues and concerns. Join us for dinner and meet them at La Catena Restaurant for our first program of the new AAUW year.
(See the flyer on main webpage, CHIPS, and emails for more information.)

WED, OCTOBER 8 at 5:30pm ~ Women Empowering Women
Dr. Cheryl Brannan will discuss her work with Sister to Sister International, a non-profit organization that connects, advances and strengthens women, girls and families of African descent worldwide by linking them to available resources.

WED, NOVEMBER 12 at 5:30pm ~ Lincoln’s Funeral Oration:
The Gettysburg Address
One week before the 162nd anniversary of the Gettysburg Address (Nov. 19.1863), Dr. Robert Valentine will describe the circumstances in which Lincoln accepted the invitation to dedicate the first National cemetery for the interment of the Union dead following the Battle of Gettysburg. He also will discuss how Lincoln delved into the traditions of public oration, utilizing Old Testament forms of speech to define the meaning of the American Civil War and its impact on the future of our democracy.

~ 2026 ~
SATURDAY, JAN  10 at 10:30am ~ Let’s Get Healthy in 2026!
Join Deirdre Pachon, a certified personal trainer with 50 years of experience, for an engaging session on wellness and active aging. Learn how simple, guided exercise can reduce arthritis-related pain and stiffness, improve balance, and build strength for everyday activities. Please wear sneakers or closed back shoes and clothing appropriate for doing some light exercise.

SATURDAY, FEB 14 at 10:30am ~ Health Care Disparities:
Impacts on Women
Dr. Tallisha Gonzalez will discuss her research on social, behavioral, and environmental factors impacting women’s cardiovascular health outcomes among Blacks, Asians, and Latinos, including immigrants, as well as groups of U.S. women and workers.

SATURDAY, MARCH 13 at 10:30am ~ “Men AND WOMEN are endowed
with unalienable rights!”
Coline Jenkins, the great-great granddaughter of suffragist Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, and renowned advocate for women’s suffrage, will discuss the similarities and differences in our Nation’s Declaration of Independence and the Declaration of Sentiments created in 1848 at the first Convention for Women’s Rights in Seneca Falls, New York.
Celebrate Women
’s History Month!

WED, APRIL 9 at 5:30pm ~ A Celebration of Earth Day – Ecology
and our Environment
Program To Be Decided

WED, MAY 14 at 5:30pm ~ Shall We Dance?
Ginger Rogers & Suzanne Farrell
Frank DeLigio, Host of the Greenburgh Library’s Jazz Conversations and Opera
Talks, will join us for a program celebrating two American women who took advantage of their early breaks and became icons of beauty in motion through talent and hard work.

SPRING EVENTS

 Running and Winning Workshop

 AAUW New York State Convention (TBD)

 Girls for STEM Conference (formerly EYO)

 Local Scholarship Luncheon
Westchester Community College

 

For questions about events, contact us