Join us for our hybrid (In-person and Zoom), club meeting which will be held at the Peninsula Center Library, 701 Silver Spur Road, Rolling Hills Estates, California, 90274 on January 19, 2024.   Our meeting starts at 2:30 pm but join us at 2:00 pm to chat with other Democrats.

Our first meeting of the new year will feature an expert panel that will discuss the topic, “Reproductive rights in the new administration.”  

Joining us on the panel will be Sylvia Castillo, who is the Executive Director of the California Coalition for Reproductive Freedom. Ms. Castillo became executive director in 2024 after serving for nearly 10 years as a coalition member and 6 years on the Executive Advisory Committee. She is a seasoned leader and a champion for reproductive health, rights, and justice, with more than a decade of experience in coalition building. A native of Los Angeles, she received her Bachelor of Arts in History and Latin American Studies from UCLA and attended the University of San Francisco Public Affairs graduate program. 

We are also pleased to have Minouche Kandel on our panel. Ms. Kandel is a Senior Staff Attorney at the ACLU of Southern California specializing in the LGBTQ, Gender & Reproductive Justice Project. Ms. Kandel has been published in the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism and is a recipient of the 2008 California Lawyer Attorney of the Year (Public Interest Law category), and the Daily Journal's 2009 Top 100 Lawyers in California. Ms. Kandel received her B.A. from Yale University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.

In addition to Ms. Castillo and Ms. Kandel, we have invited 2 other experts in the reproductive health field to join us on the panel.

To register for our meeting, please fill out the following form and click submit.