WOMEN IN POLITICS, MAKING A CHANGE

Rhoda Overstreet Wilson
First black woman elected to Auburn City Council in 2023

Our female majority City Councilors – Christina Calarco, Rhoda Overstreet Wilson, and Ginny Kent – with Councilor Terry Cuddy and Mayor Jimmy Giannettino

NYS Senator Rachel May
District 48

Aileen McNabb Coleman, Chair
Cayuga County Legislature

Since the inception of the DWCC, we have hosted many speakers
and programs that have brought women together

Senator Gillibrand visits Auburn in 2016

Our first public event in April 2012 at the Aurora Inn featured
Stephanie Miner, the first woman Mayor of Syracuse

Zephyr Teachout, former Candidate for Congress and

Governor Spoke at Auburn Public Theater in 2014

Karen DeCrow, a leader in the Women’s Rights Movement
Founding member of the National NOW Board,
Speaks at Hilton Garden Inn 2013

Tom DiNapoli, NYS Comptroller, supports the
NYS ERA Proposition, Hilton Garden Inn 2024

Auburn native Amy Dacey, Former Exec. Dir. Emily’s List and The
CEO of the Democratic National Committee spoke at the Hilton
Garden Inn, 2016

Transgender Day of Remembrance, November 2023, Aurora