EVENT AGENDA:
11:50am - 12:00pm Zoom room opens
12:00pm - 12:05pm Registration/ Join ZOOM
12:05 – 12:10 pm Welcoming Remarks Rebekah Gewirtz, Executive Director, NASW-RI
12:10pm - 12:20pm - Proclamation Declaring March Social Work Month - Representative Shallcross Smith and Senator Alana DiMario
12:20pm - 12:35pm Keynote Address - Lt. Governor Sabina Matos
12:35-1:00pm Presentation on Women in Housing by Angela McCalla
1:00pm - 1:55pm Panel Discussion Moderated by Wendy Becker, (Associate Professor, Rhode Island College, MSW)
Panelists :
- Representative June Speakman
- Diamond Madsen (Housing Advocate)
- Margaux Morisseau (Deputy Director, RI Coalition to End Homelessness)
- Estefania Clavijo (Outreach Case Manager, House of Hope, MSW student)
1:55pm - 2:00pm Break
2:00pm - 2:30pm Lobbying 101 with Hannah Stern (Policy Associate, ACLU of Rhode Island)
2:30pm - 2:40pm Closing Remarks by Meghan Crowley, BSW Student Intern & 2023 LEAD Event Coordinator
2:40pm - 3:00pm Virtual Lobby Visits!!!