2022 Events

Holiday Social, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 6:30-8:30

Catering by Rodney's Kitchen

Updates on Membership (Lisa) & Voter Registration (Sharon)

Drawing for a book (Thank You for Voting)

Video, "It's Time for Equal Rights."

Doris Kelley, Speaker.

Year in Review

Bring a friend! Panel Exploring the Impact of the New Voting Laws

Moderator: Steve Carignan, Associate Dean, Humanities, Arts & Sciences at the University of Northern Iowa

Panel:

Chris Larimer, Professor of Political Science, UNI

Rhonda Deters, Grundy County Auditor

Grant Veeder, Black Hawk County Auditor

Erin Murphy, columnist for the Gazette and the Des Moines Bureau Chief

Senator Eric Giddens

The event is open to the public. Bring your questions. We will livestream on Facebook Live on the League’s Facebook page and later post the video on our YouTube channel.

A Panel Discussing the Impact of Covid-19 on Iowans’ Mental Health will be held on Thursday, May 19 from 12 to 1 at the Van G. Miller Adult Learning Center, 120 Jefferson Street, Waterloo.

The Panel will be moderated by Steve Carignan, Associate Dean College of Humanities, UNI. Panel members include Tom Eachus, Director of the Black Hawk-Grundy Mental Health Center; Jennifer Schneiderman, Director of the UNI Counseling Center; Deanna Schafer, Mental Health Therapist, Hawkeye Community College; Heidi Warrington, Chair of the Black Hawk County Veteran Commission; and Representative Timi Brown-Powers. The public is invited to participate.

Pictures of our 2019 Holiday Social, in better times!

Naturalization Ceremony at UNI, 2019

This year the ceremony was cancelled, due to the Pandemic. However, last year a small group of us attended the ceremony at UNI, welcoming 130 new citizens from a number of countries: the youngest person was 20 and the oldest was in his late 80s.