Mount Saint Mary College will present the panel talk “The Triumphs and Obstacles Faced by Women in Law” on November 8. Seen here is a previous Business panel held at the college’s Aquinas Atrium, with Michael L. Fox, associate professor of Business Law, Chair of the School of Business, and Pre-Law Society Faculty Advisor as the moderator.
Mount Saint Mary College will present a panel talk titled “The Triumphs and Obstacles Faced by Women in Law” on Wednesday, November 8 at 5:30 p.m. in the Aquinas Hall Atrium.
The talk is free and open to the public. Mount Saint Mary College is located at 330 Powell Ave., Newburgh, N.Y. It was made possible by both the Mount’s Pre-Law Society and the Women Empowerment Club.
The panel members will explore the inequalities that many women face in both their pursuit of legal education and professional practice. Participants will learn how the obstacles faced didn’t serve as deterrents from success.
Junior criminology student Emily Brueckner of Newburgh, N.Y., vice president of the college’s Pre-Law Society, will welcome the audience to the talk and introduce the event’s keynote speaker, the Honorable Sandra B. Sciortino, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Orange County.
In addition to Sciortino, the panelists are scheduled to include Mount alumna Veronica A. McMillan’11, R.N., Esq., a partner with Arciero McMillan & Burgess, PC; Rebecca McGee, Esq., senior assistant District Attorney in Rockland County, N.Y.; and Jennifer Schneider, Esq., managing attorney with Drake Loeb PLLC.
Moderators will include Amanda Asare of Brentwood, N.Y., president of the Mount’s Women Empowerment Club; Chrislyn Castro of Goshen, N.Y., treasurer and social Manager of the Mount’s Pre-Law Society; and Sierra Morris of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., vice president of the Women Empowerment Club.
For more information about the panel talk, email Michael L. Fox, associate professor of Business Law, Chair of the School of Business, and Pre-Law Society Faculty Advisor, at michael.fox@msmc.edu