<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/about/office-of-the-president/presidents-bulletin/2026/03-31/03-womens-leadership.html" dsn="blogs"><featured/><categories/><pubDate>03/31/2026 05:00:00 AM</pubDate><title>Women’s Leadership Requires Access by Design</title><sub-title/><description>At a moment when crisis leadership defines public trust, Leading on the Front Lines: Crisis Leadership in Emergency Response and Healthcare brought together leaders for our Women’s History Month signature event, featuring former New York City Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh in a conversation grounded in the realities of service at scale.</description><author>Office of the President</author><image><img xmlns:ouc="http://omniupdate.com/XSL/Variables" src="/about/office-of-the-president/presidents-bulletin/2026/03-31/_images/womens-history-month-mel07554.png" alt="photo of Lori Escallier, Heidi Aronin, and Laura Kavanagh"/></image><loc>/var/staging/oucampus/suny-downstate/downstate/about/office-of-the-president/presidents-bulletin/2026/03-31/03-womens-leadership.xml</loc><tags><tag>Commemorative Months</tag></tags><categories/></item>