Events for February 28, 2025 - February 28, 2025

Jovida Hill Mayor’s Office of Engagement for Women Jovida Hill, Executive Director of the Mayor’s Office of Engagement for Women, discusses her office and the Philadelphia Commission for Women and the role they play in advancing the administration’s commitment to diversity and inclusion. Since the office was created in 2016, they have tackled issues of [...]

Anne Klaeysen Leader, New York Society for Ethical Culture The Encampment for Citizenship, founded in 1946 by Ethical Culture Leader Algernon D. Black and Alice (“Nanny”) Pollitzer, a prominent civic leader, offered an opportunity for young adults of many religious, racial, social and national backgrounds to learn the principles and techniques of citizenship…through lived experience. Black believed that [...]

Hugh Taft-Morales Leader, Philadelphia Ethical Society For many people, sexual identity and expression is an important part of life.  Shouldn’t Ethical Humanism support them as sources of energy, joy, and pride?!  Unfortunately too often American culture wraps up sexuality in layers of shame, and this can hurt everyone, but especially people seen as not conforming to traditional [...]

Marci A. Hamilton Founder and CEO of CHILD USA Prof. Marci A. Hamilton, the leading expert on statutes of limitations and access to justice for child sex abuse victims, will discuss the strategies to increase justice, including Statute of Limitations reform. Hamilton is the Robert A. Fox Leadership Program Professor of Practice, and Fox Family Pavilion [...]

For our annual celebration of spring, we will embrace the joy of youthful spirit (regardless of your calendar age)!  Come for music, poetry and prose to help us both remember the optimism and energy of youth and celebrate young people today, especially the environmental awareness embraced by the next generation.