NEED MORE INFORMATION? CONTACT US! 2023-2024 CALENDAR – ALL EVENTS SUBJECT TO CHANGE 7/6/23 7p Virtual, AAUW-Alexandria Board Meeting 7/20/23 6:30p Francophiles, Bistro L’ Hermitage, Susan Cash, scash5558@gmail.com 7/25/23 7p Mystery book group, Susan Werner, susan.werner1@verizon.net. 7/25/23 6p AAUW-VA Public Policy Zoom Meeting 7/27/23 Black Women’s Equal Pay Day 8/3/23 7p Virtual, […]
We want to thank you all for making this a wonderful 2015! This year started with enthusiasm and energy generated by new programs and our involvement with STEM project TECH SAVVY for 100 6th-9th grade girls and their parents at NoVA. Also new this year are the wonderful cultural programs organized monthly in DC/VA by […]
CAMPUS OUTREACH Danielle Beach Campus Outreach Chair Congratulations to Northern Virginia Community College students: Adrean, Sabrina, Anastasia, Hongmei. (Last names omitted since they are minors.) They are the recipients of our branch’s grants to attend AAUW’s National College Campus Women Student Leaders, (NCCWSL) conference. The virtual AAUW two-day conference is the largest in the country […]
Early History The Alexandria Branch of AAUW was chartered on May 12, 1945. Dr. Martha Rinsland served as its first president from 1945 to 1946. At that time, there were 37 charter members. Dr. Rinsland was no stranger to organizing AAUW Branches – the Alexandria Branch was the 12th branch she organized. She came to […]
FRANCOPHILE GROUP In 2022-23 we held our summer dinner to mark Bastille Day at L’ Hermitage Bistro in Occoquan. Our other programs included a presentation on current affairs in France by Dianne Adelberg, and discussions of books of interest to our members. These included books by M.L. Longworth, Jean-Luc Bannalec, Philip Ogley, and Gertrude Stein. […]
ALEXANDRIA BRANCH AAUW YEAR 2022 – 2023 End of Year Report for the Mystery Book Discussion Group The Mystery Book Discussion Group has met for over 24 years during which members enjoyed a wide variety of mystery novels. Just to be safe in this time of waxing and waning COVID, we continued to meet via […]
2023: This legislative session has been one of very mixed results. While many of the bills AAUW VA opposes did not pass, there was little progress on most of the issues supported by AAUW VA. Legislation in support of women’s worker rights and women’s reproductive rights did not advance. Next year will be a new legislative landscape […]
Dear Friends, AAUW-Alexandria is an amazingly strong group. Over the decades we have been involved in every aspect of life in Alexandria and the United States. To stay strong we need everyone involved at whatever level one can do. Our programs function because of you. We also need to bring more women into our group. […]