Community Renewal Team to name women’s center after Ginsburg

Community Renewal Team, the social-service organization that fulfills basic needs for thousands of underserved people in the Capitol region, is renaming its Women’s Empowerment Center in Hartford to the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Women’s Empowerment Center, it was announced on Thursday.

Ginsburg, a member of the U.S. Supreme Court known as “The Notorious RGB” for her tough stances on issues, died on Sept. 18 of pancreatic cancer.

Ginsburg started her career as an attorney specializing in women’s equality and rights. She is the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court and the first woman to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol. Her life was memorialized in the feature film “On the Basis of Sex” and in a documentary, “RBG.”

“The passing of Justice Ginsburg came as a shock to all of us this past weekend. We know that her lifetime of work has created lasting and critical changes to the law that benefit women nationwide, and we can think of no better way to honor her legacy than to ensure that her memory lives on in the work of CRT’s Women’s Empowerment Center in Hartford,” said Lena Rodriguez, CRT’s president and CEO.

“We are grateful that Ginsburg’s work and her legal opinions in support of womenwill be felt for decades to come, and weknowthat all womenin our community today – especially the next generation that is coming of age now – are better off because of her work on behalf of all of us,” Rodriguez added.

The center, at 330 Market St. in Hartford, serves womenin Hartford and Middlesex counties, helping them gain employment skills, leave abusive households, decrease substance abuse and recidivism and enabling grandparents to raise children.

Aformal renaming ceremony will be held at a date yet to be determined.