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A Time You Were the Only Woman in the Room

Please join us at Ramona Bar in Brooklyn at 7:00 on November 29, 2018 to support Equal Pay Today. 


Equal Pay Today! works in coalition to leverage the expertise, network, and resources of its state projects and roundtable organizations -- at the national, regional, and state level -- to close the gender wage gap across the United States.

The mission of the Equal Pay Today! Campaign, a project of the Tides Center, is to eradicate the long-standing gender wage gap impacting the economic security of women and families through an innovative collaboration of national, regional, and state-based women's legal advocacy and worker justice groups. 

Illustration courtesy of Equal Pay Today!

Illustration courtesy of Equal Pay Today!


Meet the Readers

Raluca Albu

Raluca Albu is a writer, teacher and translator who was born in Romania and raised in the Bronx. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Village Voice, The Paris Review daily, Guernica, Words without Borders, and other publications. She was a judge for the 2018 Best Translated Book Award, is the online literature editor for BOMB Magazine, and teaches writing at New York University.

 

Camille Drummond

Camille Drummond is a cultural producer and the director of publishing at Brooklyn-based arts center, Pioneer Works. Prior to this she was the event and PR director for WORD Bookstores and a reporter. A native of Los Angeles, she now lives in Brooklyn.

 

Jolenta Greenberg

JOLENTA is a comedian, podcaster, and pop culture commentator. She's a Moth Story slam winner, has been heard on NPR and the BBC, and is the host of By the Book - a podcast reality show where she and her co-host live by a different self help book every week and report back on what's life changing and what's garbage.

 

Lenora Lapidus

Lenora Lapidus is the Director of the Women’s Right Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. She litigates gender discrimination cases in courts throughout the country, engages in public policy advocacy, and speaks on gender equity issues in the media and to the public. Her work focuses on economic justice, educational equity, ending gender-based violence, and women in the criminal justice system. She and her colleagues won a unanimous ruling from the Supreme Court in AMP v. Myriad Genetics, striking down patents on the human BRCA genes, associated with breast and ovarian cancer. She also won a landmark victory from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Jessica Gonzales v. U.S., resulting in the issuance of historic guidance from DOJ to law enforcement on gender-biased policing. In 2015, she urged the EEOC to investigate the low number of women hired by studios to be directors for film and television, leading to an in-depth investigation. Ms. Lapidus has received several awards and fellowships, including the Trailblazer Award from Women and Hollywood, 21 Leaders for the 21 st Century from Women’s eNews and the Wasserstein Fellowship for outstanding public interest lawyers from Harvard Law School. She graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School and summa cum laude from Cornell University.

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