UN Women for
Peace Association (UNWFPA) Chair Dame
Muna Rihani Al-Nasser and President Barbara
Winston welcomed 100 guests Monday night at
Susan Gutfreund's Fifth Avenue duplex in celebration
of organization’s upcoming Awards Luncheon on
International Women’s Day, March 8th.
During the cocktail reception, Dame Muna Rihani
Al-Nasser announced their Awards Luncheon honorees
which include the First
Lady of Panama, Lorena Castillo De Varela, for
her work as a Special Ambassador of UNAIDS for Latin
America and as global spokesperson for the Zero
Discrimination Movement; Sheikha
Rima Al-Sabah, National Goodwill Ambassador for
the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees;
model and activist Ashley
Graham; Leyla
Aliyeva for her work as an FAO Goodwill
Ambassador; and Eve
Branson for her foundation’s work in the Atlas
Mountains. Greg
Kelly will be the Luncheon's master of
ceremonies.
Susan Gutfreund is a Chairing the Awards Luncheon
along with Cristiana
Andrade, Geoffrey Bradfield, Francine LeFrak, Greg
Schnackel, and Ling
Tian.
Guests at the elegant event included Rima
Al-Sabah, Edgar Batista, Donna Corbat, Wendy
Diamond, Anne Marie Dougherty, Olivia Flatto,
Deborra Lee Furness, Avideh Ghaffari, Chista
Ghaffari, Lucia Hwong Gordon, Michal Grayevsky,
Michal G, Heffernan, Jana Jaffe, Pamela Johananoff,
Larry Kaiser, Latifa Kosta, Pat Kerr Tigret, Ariel
and Corinne Lahmi, Francine LeFrak, Julie Macklow, Geeta
Mehta, Valbona Neritani, Ann Nitze, Vanessa Noel,
Princess Katherine and Alexander of Serbia, Julie
Perlman, Louis Perlman, Amelia Prounis, Lila Prounis,
Anna Rhodes, Ralph Rucci, Dame Jillian Sackler, J
Aida Shawaf, Julie Freedman Steele, Dexter Sun, Ling
Tian, Dr. Steven Victor, Baroness Von Langendorff,
Diana Wang, Bruce Winston, Helen Young, and Nassrin
Iromloo Zahedi.
UNWFPA’s
board of directors include Mrs.
Ban Soon-taek (Patron), Michal Grayevsky, Muna
Rihani Al-Nasser, Barbara Winston, Rema DuPont,
Valbona Neritani, and Stephanie Winston Wolkoff.
Their Board of Advisors includes Katherine Stacy
Deluke, Jana Jaffe, Avideh Ghaffari, Charlene
Haroche, Deirdre Imus, Cindy McCain, Conchita
Sarnoff, and Julie
Friedman Steele.