Our Voices, Our Votes: Thank You Notes to Alice Paul at Her Gravesite
August 26, 2020
4:30 – 5:30pm EST
Virtual Event
Join API for a very special live streamed event from Alice Paul’s gravesite in New Jersey on Women’s Equality Day. To mark the 100th anniversary of the day the 19th Amendment became law and granted women equal voting rights in America, API’s Executive Director Lucy Beard will be joined at Alice Paul’s burial place by members of API’s Girls Leadership Council for teen girls. Together, they will honor Alice Paul’s lifelong fight for gender equality. The highlight of the event will be the teen girls reading “Thank You” notes they have written in celebration of this important historical anniversary. In commemoration of the work Alice did, and the work GLC members are dedicating themselves to continuing, the group will lay flowers on the grave and salute Alice with a toast. Don’t miss this truly unique virtual event.
This event is Free. Registration is required to receive the access code.
Learn more about the Girls Leadership Council HERE.
#ThanksAlice: A Toast to Alice Paul on Women’s Equality Day
August 26, 2020
7 – 7:30pm EST
Virtual Event
Celebrate 100 years of women’s voting rights with API on Women’s Equality Day 2020! Join us as we say “Thanks Alice!” with a virtual toast live-streamed from Paulsdale, Alice Paul’s childhood home. API’s Executive Director Lucy Beard and Board Chair Deirdre Webster Cobb are delighted to share this important and historic date with you as, together, we honor Alice Paul and the countless women who joined the fight to win women’s suffrage.
Mark your calendars, chill your beverage of choice, and log on to hear Lucy and Deirdre make a few short remarks before we take a moment to pause our lives and raise our glasses for a national toast to say “Thanks Alice!”
This event is Free. Registration is required to receive the access code.
About our Guests:
Lucienne Beard has been active with API since 1994, first as a volunteer, board member, and later as API’s Program Director (2000-2007). In that role, Beard created the robust educational programming and events that remain the hallmark of API. Beard left the organization for a short time, returning in 2012 as Executive Director. She has a B.A. in International Affairs from The George Washington University, and an M.A. in American History from Rutgers University. Beard has served on the boards of the Girl Scouts, PA Museums, New Century Trust, and is currently Treasurer on the board of the National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites. She is also a steering committee member for the Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative and a New Jersey delegate to the Vision 2020.
Deirdre Webster Cobb draws on more than 30 years of experience in the regulatory and administrative law fields in her work for the State of New Jersey. She has worked at several departments within the State of New Jersey including the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, the Department of Community Affairs and the Department of the Treasury, and started her career in state government as a Governor’s Fellow with the Department of Personnel, now the Civil Service Commission (CSC). Admitted to practice in New Jersey and before the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Chair Webster Cobb is a Past President of the Association of Black Women Lawyers of New Jersey, Inc. and a former member of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Judicial and Prosecutorial Appointments Committee, the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Character and the Minority Concerns Committee of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Burlington Vicinage. She is also a former Trustee of the New Jersey State Bar Association and currently serves as a member of the Honorable Marie White Bell American Inn of Court Executive Committee.
