You do have to login to the website to access the Member Directory. But that’s not hard: just click Login at the top left or the button below, put in your personal preferred email address, click Forgot Password, and follow the instructions to set your your personal password. Need more help? Send an email to website@lp2nyc.org and we will send you detailed instructions with pics. Then take the next step and make yourself findable: Update your Profile Photo, Cover Photo, Bio, Interests, Skills, Neighborhood. An upcoming workshop on updating your own profile is coming soon. Read more…

The Fall General Membership Meeting Agenda includes Greetings from Dean Brian Peterson, Mariel Villeré, and Barbara Marwell, a New Member Video, the Presentation of Amended LP² Guidelines* by Michael Kessler, Vice Chair and Chair of the Guidelines Revision Committee, Strategic Planning Project by Barbara Marwell and the Return of the LP² Art Players with John Becker and Howie Menikoff. The IER Meeting will follow on the topics of the IER Budget Review and the Annual Appeal. A In Memoriam Video will conclude the meeting which will be followed by Refreshments. Read more…

Kicking off Friday@1’s Fall webinar series will be a conversation with Australian-born journalist and prize-winning storyteller, Geraldine Brooks. Member Carolyn Setlow will query Brooks, author of best sellers Horse (her most recent novel), March (for which she won a Pulitzer Prize), Caleb’s Crossing, Year of Wonders, People of the Book, and The Secret Chord, about her approach to historical fiction –  the relationship between fact and fiction in her novels; her choice of time periods, characters, and language; her research process; and the role of historical fiction in our civil dialogue on issues such as race and injustice.  Read more…