Carol Polcovar - 21st Cent. Women; Texas Alliance for Retired Americans; & More

Carol Polcovar is a published poet and writer; a playwright whose plays have been produced Off Broadway and in Europe ; a director of more than thirty shows ; a producer whose best known production is Ray Fox's Off-Broadway production, "Take It Easy," an Interfaith Minister and a teacher of American History, Civil Law and Writing .  Since the 1970's Ms. Polcovar has been active in the LGBT and the Women's Civil Rights Movements .  She was the Founder and Artistic Director of All Out Arts Fresh Fruit Festival, a yearly summer NYC festival dedicated to fighting prejudice and homophobia in the arts. She is currently writing a mystery novel around issues of justice, class and immigrant life in 19th century New York and a memoir of her early years, "Hello My Coney Island Baby. She now teaches at Hawaii Pacific University and will be joining us from Honolulu, Hawaii to talk about women's issues in the 21st Century, especially women in midlife and beyond. AND she'll talk about living her passion!! Gene Lantz of the Texas Alliance for Retired Americans will join us to talk about some important issues now affecting retirees in all of America, what TARA is doing about those issues, and how we can all get involved. And MORE!