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Lori Sokol, PhD, Executive
Director & Editor-in-Chief, Women’s
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Women’s eNews announces
the Honorees for its
21
Leaders for the 21st Century Awards
Gala celebrating
the 20th Anniversary
of Women’s eNews
on
October 26th
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(New
York, NY, October 9th,
2020) Lori Sokol, PhD, Executive
Director & Editor-in-Chief, Women’s
eNews, has announced
the Honorees for its virtual 21
Leaders for the 21st Century Awards Gala
celebrating 20 years of Women’s eNews, to
take place on October
26.
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The honorees include: Taina
Bien-Aimé - Executive
Director, The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women; Chantal
Bonitto - Director
of Inclusive Philanthropy, Planned Parenthood Federation of
America; Suzanne
Braun Levine,
Founding Editor, Ms. Magazine; Ariela
Esquenazi - CEO
and President, Ariela & Associates International; Tamsen
Fadal - 12-time
Emmy award-winning anchor, PIX11 NEWS; Sapphira
Goradia - Executive
Director of the Vijay and Marie Goradia Foundation; Susan
Herman -
President, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU); Jessica
Houssian -
Co-CEO, Equality Fund; Letitia
James - New
York State Attorney General; Imara
Jones - Emmy
award-winning creator, TransLash Media; Evelyn
LaChapelle -
Founder, 87, Creator, The Heart of Cannabis; Dr. Marianne
Legato - President,
Founder and Director,
The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine; Congresswoman
Carolyn D. Maloney -
(NY-12); Sharon
Nelson -
CEO & President, Civically Re-Engaged Women; Maria
Nunez –
Activist and Philanthropist; Evora
Russell -
Co-Founder, Curvy Couture; Melissa
St. Clair - Senior
Director, Innovation & Diversity Strategies, TIAA; Mona
Sinha -
Activist and Philanthropist, Board Chair of Women Moving
Millions; Edie
Windsor -
(in Memoriam), LGBT Rights Activist; Teresa
Younger -
President & CEO, Ms. Foundation for Women.
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"Our 2020 honorees reflect our
most diverse group of honorees ever, representing women of
color and the LGBTQI community, as well as leaders in the
for-profit and non-profit arenas. It is clear that in order
for women to achieve gender equality, we ALL need to work
together toward this common goal," says Lori
Sokol,
PhD, Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief of Women’s eNews.
"The diversity of our honorees represents the true diversity
of the world we inhabit.” |
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Cheryl Wills,
Emmy award-winning Spectrum News NY1 Anchor NY1
Live at Ten, Host
of In
Focus with Cheryl Wills, author,
and past 21
Leaders for the 21st Century honoree,
will host the gala for the first time. Loreen
Arbus,
president of The Loreen Arbus Foundation, The
Goldenson-Arbus Foundation, and Loreen Arbus Productions,
Inc., is Honorary Gala Chair. Gloria
Joseph,
philanthropist and journalist, and Suzanne
Lerner, co-founder
and president, Michael
Stars,
are Honorary
Gala Co-Chairs. |
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The Loreen Arbus
Champion for Disabilities Award, which pays tribute to a
pioneer in the community will be presented in honor of
humanitarian and activist Loreen Arbus to Becky Curran
Kekula, International motivational speaker and disability
inclusion advocate. |
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The Rita
Henley Jensen Founder Award will
be presented to Suzanne
Braun Levine, Ms. Magazine founding Editor. |
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The inaugural Dorothy
Height Champion for Civil Rights Award will
be presented to Letitia
James, New York State Attorney General. |
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The inaugural Marcy
Syms Leader for Gender Equality Award will
be presented to Congresswoman
Carolyn Maloney, U.S.
Representative for New York's 12th congressional district in
New York.
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The inaugural Edie
Windsor Pioneer for LGBTQ Equality Award is
also being established in her honor. |
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About Women’s eNews: |
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Past Honorees for
the 21 Leaders for
the 21st Century Awards
Gala include: Loreen
Arbus, Abigail
Disney, Lauren Embrey, Suzanne Lerner, Carol Jenkins, Eve
Ensler, Pat Mitchell, NYS
Lt. Governor Kathy
Hochul, Nobel Prize
Recipient Leymah
Gbowee, former President
of Ireland Mary
Robinson,
and many other prominent women leaders.
Our Mission: Women’s
eNews reports the stories of women and girls to create a
more equitable world.
Our Vision: A
world that honors, respects, and supports the lives of women
and girls.
Our Values: To
uphold the values of journalism by seeking the truth and
reporting it, acting independently, and minimizing harm with
accountability and transparency.
What We Do: Women’s
eNews is an award-winning nonprofit news service covering
issues of particular concern to women and providing women’s
perspectives on public policy. With writers and readers
around the globe, Women’s eNews’ audience stretches from New
York City to New Delhi and all points between, reaching an
estimated 2.5
million readers each year. |
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Women’s eNews editors
seek out freelance writers from around the world to write on
every topic from politics, religion, economics, health, and
science, to sustainability, education, sports, and
legislation. Women’s eNews relies on the best practices of
journalism and has gained enormous credibility by providing
factual journalism every day.
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For more information
about the 2020 Women's eNews virtual 21
Leaders for the 21st Century Gala
contact: angie@womensenews.org.
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