Women's March NYC Rise and Roar!

Every voice makes a difference. When we join together and lift each other’s voices louder, we become a wave too powerful to ignore, too powerful to sweep aside, and too powerful to drown out. Let’s join our voices together on January 18, 2020
https://www.womensmarchnyc.org/

Women's March NYC Rise and Roar is a culmination of partnership, unity, and solidarity, with a goal to join the two women’s march groups of New York City.

Two rallies, with performances and speakers, will take place simultaneously beginning at Foley Square (10am-1pm) and Columbus Circle (10:30am-1pm).

10 am - Foley Square - RISE - rally begins
10 - 11:30 am - Performances
11:30 - 1pm - Speakers
1 - 3pm - Train ride ,march to Times Square
3 pm - Unite with Columbus Circle rally in Times Square

10:30 am - Columbus Circle - ROAR - rally begins
11 - 11:40 am - Speakers
11:40 am - 2pm - Performances
2 - 3 pm - March to Times Square
3 pm - Unite with Foley Square rally - RISE and ROAR in Times Square

Ahead of the #RiseandRoar rallies, Women's March NYC released a powerful and emotional video, as well as the topics and issues most fundamentally important to the movement.
https://youtu.be/rjqvt1qMCGQ

Three years of marching, training, organizing, and building power – it’s all been leading up to this. In 2020, we have the chance to strengthen the movement we started three years, and to unite together in the face of continued attacks on our bodies, our rights, our immigrant communities, and our planet.

This year, we aren’t just marching. We’re putting our bodies on the line hand in hand with other mass movements.

Speakers

• Karen Cahn, Founder & CEO of iFundWomen
• Arlan Hamilton - Founder and Managing Partner of Backstage Capital, a venture capital fund she started from the ground up while homeless
• Stephanie Trachtenberg - Head of Marketing at Clio Designs Incorporated
• Iesha Sekou - Founder and CEO of Street Corner Resources Inc.
• Autumn Trafficante - Transgender woman and activist
• Sallie Krawcheck - Founder & CEO of Ellevest
• Dr. Shepherd - Founder of Her Viewpoint
• Michelle Herrera Mulligan - Writer, Editor, and Advocate
• Anais Fortiz - 16-year-old activist
• Amanda Hambrick - Founder of Raising Imagination
• Dr. Lindo Bacon - Speaker, Scientist, and Storyteller
• Abby Stein - Educator, Author, Speaker, and Activist
• Joyce Short - Founder of the Consent Awareness Network
• Lisa Chin Mollica - CEO and Founder of Vote In Or Out
• Bethanie Baynes - Founder of Breadwinning Women’s community at Google
• Julia Fusco Luberoff - Executive Director, Women's March New York City
• Mila Jam - Recording Artist & Transgender Star
• Alyssa Kayhill - Singer & Songwriter
• Zach Norris - Executive Director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
• Chivona Renee Newsome - Co-Founder, Black Lives Matter Greater NY
• Zakiyah Ansari - Advocacy Director, New York State Alliance for Quality Education
• Donna Hylton - Women's Rights Activist
• Caridad De La Luz - Performer known as “La Bruja”
• Judith Paez Sanchez - New Sanctuary Coalition
• Judaline Cassidy - Founder of Tools & Tiaras
• Althea Stevens - On The Run NYC
• Amoy Barnes - On The Run NYC
• Ema Eyasmin - Planned Parenthood
• Larissa Vasquez - Planned Parenthood
• Pascale Bernard - Planned Parenthood
• Olivia Owens - Head of Partnerships, iFundWomen
• Evelyn Yang - Activist & Wife of Presidential candidate Andrew Yang
• Las Tesis Feminine Activist Collective
• Rabbi Emily Cohen - Lab/Shul