She fought off an attempted assault earlier in life, and she continues fighting for social issues today, despite the horrific memories that linger.
“Doing this work and always doing work around social justice and gender equality has helped keep me sane,” Diane Cornman-Levy said in a Philadelphia Inquirer report by Jane Von Bergen. “It gives me passion, determination, resilience.”
Cornman-Levy – a former Democratic candidate for the state’s House of Representatives, as well as a Radnor High School graduate and Newtown Square resident – is the new executive director of Women’s Way. Among the most pressing issues facing her and the nonprofit committed to achieving gender equality and justice is what she calls an “attack on women, on choice, on reproductive healthcare.”
But regardless of people’s political leanings, she also believes Women’s Way needs “to be very inclusive and very strategic about bringing organizations and women together across class, race, and ethnicity, and to create a safe place to start having these hard conversations.”
Read more about Women’s Way and its new executive in the Philadelphia Inquirer here.
