November 13th: 2025 Autumn Cocktail Reception
NCJW NY’s Autumn Cocktail Reception featuring Irin Carmon
in conversation with NCJW NY’s Board Vice President Meredith Barnett about her new book, Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America.
Proceeds will benefit NCJW NY’s Pregnancy Loss Support Program (PLSP)
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Irin Carmon is an award-winning senior correspondent at New York magazine, where she covers gender, law, politics, and more. Previously, she was a CNN contributor, a contributing writer to The Washington Post’s “Outlook”, a national reporter at MSNBC and NBC News, and a staff writer at Salon and Jezebel. She is the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Notorious RBG. She lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters. Find out more at IrinCarmon.com. Photo credit: Sophie Sahara |
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Meredith Barnett serves NCJW NY as the Vice President of the Board of Directors and as a volunteer counselor for the Pregnancy Loss Support Program. She is a branding expert with broad experience supporting clients in a variety of industries. |
RSVP by October 28, 2025
NCJW NY strives for social justice and empowerment for historically excluded and underserved individuals and families in New York City and state. Our hands-on approach combines direct social services—to alleviate the immediate effects of inequity—and passionate, focused advocacy to make lasting systemic change for the future.
Even though an estimated 20 percent of known pregnancies end in a loss, pregnancy loss is still misunderstood and stigmatized. For more than 40 years, NCJW NY’s Pregnancy Loss Support Program (PLSP) has provided support and validation for parents who have experienced miscarriage, stillbirth, or newborn death.
PLSP utilizes professionally trained volunteers to provide telephone counseling and to facilitate in-person and virtual support groups. All of our volunteers have experienced a loss themselves, so they can speak from experience to grieving parents, and at the same time continue their own healing process through service to others.
Host Committee:
Melissa Broudo
Kate Fisher
Rachel George
Alisha Goodman
Kira Rosoff Heller
Melinda Koster
Jodi LaBow
Carole Nimaroff
Dana Weintraub