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The National Audubon Society's 11th Annual
Women in Conservation Luncheon Honoring Ellen Futter,
Kaiulani Lee, and Nell Newman As The 2014 Rachel Carson
Award Recipients
New York -May 20, 2014- The National Audubon Society
celebrated the legacy of female leadership in conservation
yesterday, by presenting three conservation champions with
the Rachel Carson Award at The Plaza Hotel in New York, NY.
The prestigious Audubon award recognizes visionary women
whose dedication, talent, and energy have advanced
environmental and conservation positive change locally and
on a global scale.
“Audubon New York was proud to be honor Ellen Futter,
Kaiulani Lee, and Nell Newman as the 2014 Rachel Carson
Award recipients,” says Audubon New York Executive Director
Erin Crotty. “They are recognized both globally and locally
for dedicating their talents and enthusiasm in support of
advancing environmental and conservation issues, making them
well-deserving of this award. As pioneers who are effecting
positive change and ushering in innovative conservation
ideas they represent the true spirit of the Rachel Carson
Award and we are fortunate for their leadership.”
This year The National Audubon
Society also recognized a special group of women with the
“Women Greening Food” special recognition. This recognition
celebrates the efforts of American women whose work has
advanced sustainability in food production. The Audubon’s
Women Greening Food recognition recipients included chef
Alex Guarnaschelli, Mary Cleaver (founder of The Green
Table), Kristen Beddard (The Kale Project), Jilly Stephens
(Executive Director of City Harvest) among others.
As guests dined on a locally sourced vegetarian menu for
this event catered by Liz Neumark, owner of Great
Performances and member of the Audubon Women in Conservation
Council, emcee NBC Chief Environmental Affairs Correspondent
Anne Thompson, remarked on the historical legacy of American
women in conservation.
Allison Whipple Rockefeller, the founding chair of the
Rachel Carson Awards Council, spoke at the ceremony with a
nod to the award’s namesake saying, "I think, if anyone can,
the American woman can get the message out loud and clear:
that America is one nation, one people, and that its beloved
landscape, water and air are one bounty that shall be
respected, protected and shared by all."
Guests included:
Kaiulani Lee; Nell
Newman; Ellen
Futter, President of the American Museum of Natural
History; Anne
Thompson, Chief Environmental Affairs Correspondent for
NBC News; Allison
Rockefeller, Founding Chair of Women in Conservation
Luncheon; Nina
Zagat; Carlos
Falchi; Jayni
Chase;Douglas
Brinkley; Warrie
Price; David
Jr. and Susan
Rockefeller; Lois
Chiles; Angela
Fout, Founder
of Sohha Savory Yogurt; Deborah
Rutt, Oregon's Coffee Creek Correctional Facility
Organic Gardening; Jilly
Stephens, Executive Director of City Harvest; Danielle
Nierenberg, Food
Tank; Janelle
Hope Robbins, Executive Director of Bedford Audubon
Society; Petra
Page-Mann, Owner of Fruition Seeds; Helena & Susanne
Durst, McEnroe Farm; Laureen
Barberl, Co-founder of Blue Hill; Lisa
Schwartz, Founder of Rainbeau Ridge Farm; Virginie-Alvine
Perrette, ambassador for Kale Project; Mary
Cleaver, Founder of The Green Table; Kristen
Beddard, The Kale Project; Laura
O'Donohue, Owner, Snow Hill Farm; Laura
Rosenshine, NYC
Composting
Mission: To
recognize outstanding women leaders in today's conservation
movement; to support environmental opportunities for girls
and young women; and to educate women on important issues
related to conservation and the environment.
About: The
National Audubon Society saves birds and their habitats
throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education
and on-the-ground conservation. Audubon's state programs,
nature centers, chapters and partners have an unparalleled
wingspan that reaches millions of people each year to
inform, inspire and unite diverse communities in
conservation action. Since 1905, Audubon's vision has been a
world in which people and wildlife thrive. Audubon is a
nonprofit conservation organization. Learn more at
www.audubon.org and @audubonsociety.
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