Thanks to all who helped to make our 14 Anniversary Gala Celebration a success!

OUR SPONSORS: Verizon Foundation, Jefferson's Ferry Lifecare Retirement Community, Manuel and Angelina Martinez and Family/ Utopia Home Care, Inc. and Herstory’s board of directors.

The Charles B. Wang Center: Sunita Mukhi, director of the Center, long-time Herstory writer, former Herstory board member and program partner; her assistant Jen Iacona, the center’s staff and the sound crew of Staller Center for their generous support; Jasmine restaurant for their gracious catering.

We thank Herstory Partner Gallery Participants, Herstory Readers, Demo Workshop Participants.

We thank the dozens of volunteers who helped to make this event possible, including graphic designer Tammy Lea for her gift of the journal design, and our Gala Committee: Fran Monahan, Cheryl Hamilton, Shakeera Thomas, Erika Duncan, Sylvia Clark.

We are happy to announce several new offshoots that came as the result of our Gala:

Patrick Lespinasse presented us with a $5,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation. It will supplement funding from LitTAP, New York State Literary Presenters Technical Assistance Program, to produce a video about our technique. This video-- to be produced by our long-time partner Black Media Foundation -- will be used for training new facilitators and sold with our manual in DVD form. It will be posted on the Herstory, LitTAP and other websites. To open a press release from LitTAP, click here.

Through the Suffolk County Office of Film and Cultural Affairs (SCOCA), starting Sunday November 7th, program director Ana Maria Callabaro will produce a Herstory series on WBON every Sunday from 8:30-9 a.m. --La Nueva Fiesta 98.5/96.9FM Long Island & Connecticut, 1490AM South Jersey. This Spanish language program, co-hosted with Herstory facilitator Silvia Heredia, will bring "If your words had the power, passing along the dare to care" to 100,000- 120,000 listeners waking up in the morning, bringing in Herstory writers working in Spanish and English and touching on a wide variety of issues.

One of our Gala program participants, Stony Brook Educational Opportunity Program student Tenzeeila Ali, has been invited to introduce two of the keynote speakers at this year's Ethnic Pen Conference, hosted by Bay Shore High School and attended by 1000 students from across Long Island. She will be introducing including Yasmine and Imran Hafiz, authors of THE AMERICAN MUSLIM TEENAGER'S HANDBOOK, and Neil Crone, an actor on the popular Canadian TV show, LITTLE MOSQUE ON THE PRAIRIE. and telling the story she told at our Gala: how she wrote her page one about the effects of September 11 on her and her family