Webinar: #ThanksAlice by Alice Paul Institute

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About this Webinar

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, Deirdre and Sanjana give 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.

Presenters

Lucy Beard

Executive Director, Alice Paul Institute

Lucienne Beard has been active with API since 1994, first as a volunteer and a board member and from 2000-2007 as API’s Program Director, establishing the interpretive story for public visitation at Paulsdale and creating the Alice Paul Leadership Programs for girls. She has been the Executive Director at API since 2012. She has a BA in International Affairs from The George Washington University and an MA in American History from Rutgers University. Beard has served on the boards of the Girl Scouts, PA Museums, New Century Trust, and currently is Treasurer on the board of the National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites and a steering committee member for the Women’s Vote Centennial Initiative and a New Jersey delegate to the Vision 2020.

Deirdre Webster Cobb

Chair, Alice Paul Institute Board of Directors

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.

Sanjana Harihar

An active member of the Alice Paul Institute's Girls Leadership Council since she was a freshman, Sanjana is a rising 12th grader at Council Rock High School North.

Colleen Tryner

Operations Director Colleen Tryner came to the Alice Paul Institute in early 2016. In her time at the Alice Paul Institute, she has served as an intern, a Development Associate, and Lead Coordinator for the Girls Leadership Council (GLC). Colleen now applies her holistic knowledge of the organization and passion for coordinating to manage various day-to-day processes and projects for staff, interns, and volunteers. Colleen is a graduate of Rowan University with a B.A. in History and Art, minors in Art History and Business Administration, and a concentration in International Studies.