Join us for the ceremonial unveiling of a plaque honoring pioneer aviator Amelia Earhart at Greenwich House, where she once lived and worked as a social worker. We will hear about her record-breaking feats, her life in the Village, and her cultural legacy.  Read more about Amelia Earhart’s life in Greenwich Village here. 

This is our 26th plaque unveiling. Our plaque program has honored and marked the homes of local figures from Jane Jacobs to James Baldwin; Allen Ginsberg to Charles Mingus; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry, as well as historically significant sites such as the former NAACP headquarters, Julius’ Bar, and the Fillmore East.

You can learn more about our plaque program and explore the other plaques here and here.

Participants Include:

Darren Bloch is the CEO and Executive Director of Greenwich House, which serves 20,000 New Yorkers each year across healthcare and social services, educational and arts programming, and civic and community enrichment and engagements. Darren has had a distinguished career leading organizations and teams across government, non-profit, media, and corporate sectors. Beyond his work with Greenwich House, Darren serves on the board of New York City Employer and Training Coalition, is a member of the LiveOn Executive Leadership Council, co-chair of the Human Services Council Priority and Strategy Council, and member of the Trinity Wall Street Neighborhood Council.

Laurie Gwen Shapiro is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist whose writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York, The Daily Beast, Lapham’s Quarterly, Slate, Aeon, The Forward, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her newest book, The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam and the Marriage that Made an American Icon (Viking) was a Best Book of Summer by CBS Sunday Morning. Shapiro is also an adjunct professor of journalism in the graduate program at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.