Women's March Elmira
Speakers at the 2020 March
Sarah is the co-founder of Card Carrying Bookshop, the only feminist bookshop between New York City and Chicago. She served for years as a rape crisis councilor and educator at Planned Parenthood before opening the shop. She guides Parents With Pride, a peer-support group for parents of LGBTQ+ kids, and the Teen Feminist Circle, an activist youth group, and helped organize Corning's first Pride event in 2019.
Sarah Blagg
Holly is is pastor of Westside United Methodist Church, Elmira and Webb Mills United Methodist Church in Pine City, NY. She graduated from Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School in Rochester, N.Y., after retiring as an educator with the Elmira City School District. She helps parents teach their children how to be more responsible and caring through her books, articles, and workshops known as Sacred Seeds and Shalom Family Ministries.
Rev. Holly Strickland
Elizabeth was born in South Africa, but has resided in Corning for over 35 years. She is an author, entrepreneur, and activist. She has twice run for mayor of Corning with environmental issues as the cornerstone of her platform. She volunteers with a number of local organizations teaching literacy, caring for animals, and acting as a museum docent.
Elizabeth Whitehouse
Alexa Yesukevich coordinates the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Elmira College, where she also teaches sociology. She holds degrees from Mount Holyoke, Brandeis, and Cornell. Alexa's current research focuses on the origins of early American women's colleges and the female seminary movement.