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For all ticketing-related questions, please email [email protected]. Tickets must be paid for at the time of purchase. To submit a question for the speaker in advance, put ABRAMS in the subject line and email to [email protected]. The deadline for submitting questions in advance is 10 a.m. on the day of the luncheon.
Following her defeat by Georgia's Secretary of State Brian Kemp, a Republican, Abrams launched Fair Fight Action, and together with another advocacy group, filed a federal lawsuit seeking to overhaul Georgia's election system. The groups contend the current system impaired citizens' ability to vote in the 2018 gubernatorial election, depriving them of their constitutional First, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendment rights. Lunch is served in the ballroom at 12:30 p.m. Remarks begin at 1 p.m., followed by a question-and-answer session ending at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $25 for Club members, who may…
Ms. Dubrow, who lived in Northwest Washington, D.C., was also a two-term Ward 3 Democratic Committee Precinct Delegate. Donations in her memory may be sent to the Marsha Dubrow Scholarship for Women's Equality at Bennington College, Institutional Advancement, MFA Writing Program, One College Drive, Bennington, Ver., 05201-6003.
At the time of her death, Ms. Dubrow was finishing a book that recounted her tumultuous experiences as a woman breaking into journalism in New York City in 1968. She won a sex discrimination lawsuit against Reuters in 1978. Ms. Dubrow, who earned a Master's degree in writing and literature from Bennington College, went on to become a correspondent for Life magazine and Britain's Punch magazine. As a freelance writer and editor, she wrote for U.S. News and World Report on travel and the arts. She also contributed to anthologies, literary magazines and many other publications during her career…