Events & Activities


Meet the Authors… Book Presentation and Signing Sunday, April 3, 2022 2:00 to 4:00 PM

Meet Mary Anne Trasciatti  and Kimberly Schiller, who will discuss their book Talking to the Girls. Mary Anne Trasciatti (co-editor) teaches rhetoric and directs the Labor Studies program at Hofstra University. She is president of Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition. Since 2010, she has helped organize the annual official Triangle fire commemoration. She is leading the project to build the Triangle Fire Memorial, scheduled for dedication in 2023. When installed, it will be the first labor memorial and one of only a handful of memorials to women in New York City.
Kimberly Schiller (contributor) is a veteran English teacher. She graduated from Adelphi University with a Masters in Secondary Education and currently teaches middle school English. Kimberly began her career on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and has been teaching in Huntington, New York since 2005. Throughout her years as a teacher, Kimberly has taken over 200 students to the site of the Triangle fire. No charge to attend, however donations are always welcome!