Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg and the Workgroup on Harassment, Sexual Assault and Misogyny in New Jersey Politics today announced that it will hold a press conference in Newark on Thursday, January 23, at 2 p.m.

Members of the workgroup will discuss their plans for outreach to develop recommendations on how to improve the state’s political climate for women. The workgroup was created by Senator Weinberg in the wake of a Star-Ledger/New Jersey Advance Media report in which 20 women told of being groped, propositioned, harassed and even sexually assaulted while serving as campaign staffers, political operatives, legislators and lobbyists.

Workgroup members expected to attend include Senator Weinberg, Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver; Alison Accettola, Senate Majority General Counsel; Elizabeth Coulter, Director of Public Health, Planned Parenthood Action Fund of New Jersey; Sonia Delgado, Partner, Princeton Public Affairs Group; Jeannine LaRue, Senior Vice President, Kaufman Zita Group; Sabeen Masih, Vice President of Public Affairs, Capital Impact Group; Lisa Randall, Commissioner, Bergen County Improvement Authority; Julie Roginsky, Founder, Lift Our Voices; and Patricia Teffenhart, Executive Director, New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault (NJCASA).

The press conference will be held on Thursday, January 23, at 2 p.m. at the Robert Treat Hotel, 50 Park Place, Newark, in the Atlantic-Hudson Conference Room. Press credentials are required.