Elinor Guggenheimer Lifetime Achievement Award

Elly Guggenheimer, whose vision for a non-partisan coalition of women’s organizations resulted in NYWA, continues to be an inspiration to women throughout New York. One of the city’s most eminent civic leaders, she was an activist for more than half a century, working to improve conditions especially for women, children and the elderly. She energized others to push aside barriers that stood in the way of people achieving their highest potential. In honor of her indomitable spirit and unflagging energy, we present this year’s Elinor Guggenheimer Lifetime Achievement Award to Jane Fonda.

Jane Fonda, Elinor Guggenheimer Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
Having enjoyed tremendous success as a stage and screen actress, Jane Fonda now focuses much of her time on activism and social change. Ms. Fonda is a member of the Women & Foreign Policy Advisory Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations; the board of Women’s Media Center, which she co-founded in 2004; and she sits on the board of V-Day: Until The Violence Stops, a global effort to stop violence against women. She was also named a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund. Ms. Fonda is an avid reader, hiker, fly fisherwoman and yoga enthusiast.

 

Gloria Steinem, Presenter
Gloria Steinem is a writer, lecturer, editor, and feminist activist. She travels in this and other countries as an organizer and lecturer and is a frequent media spokeswoman on issues of equality. She is particularly interested in the shared origins of sex and race caste systems, gender roles and child abuse as roots of violence, non-violent conflict resolution, the cultures of indigenous peoples, and organizing across boundaries for peace and justice. Ms. Steinem co-founded the Women’s Media Center with Jane Fonda and Robin Morgan in 2005.

Hosts
Roz Abrams		Emme Aronson

New York Women’s Agenda

Event Chair
Beth-Ellen Keyes

and the

Board of Directors, Officers & its Member Organizations

invite you to the

2009 STAR Breakfast

Honoring
Jane Fonda
2009 Elinor Guggenheimer
Lifetime Achievement Awardee

and our
2009 STARs

Hosts
Roz Abrams
Emme Aronson

Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Hilton New York
1335 Avenue of the Americas
(at 53rd Street)
3rd Floor

7:00am — 7:15am
Registration
Grand Ballroom Foyer

7:15am — 7:45am
Star Breakfast
Grand Ballroom
Full Breakfast Service will begin promptly at 7:15am
and will conclude at 7:45am

7:45am — 9:30am
Program & Award Presentation
Grand Ballroom

RSVP

Stars
Dawna Michelle Fields National Program Manager Colgate’s Bright Smiles, Bright Futures Colgate-Palmolive Company	Gena Lovett Principal & COO Alexandra Investment Management, LLC	Nell Merlino Founder, President & CEO Count Me In for Women’s Economic Independence

Margot Hartman Tenney Chairman The First Stamford Corporation	Sandra Vassos, MPA Executive Director America Urological Association Foundation

STAR BREAKFAST COMMITTEE Beth-Ellen Keyes Karen Karpowich Melissa Lewis Bernstein Sandra Eberhard Carey Graeber Lee Rodriguez Maria Ungaro

BENEFIT COMMITTEE Gina Bolden-Rivera Suzanne Corso Darlene DeFour Maria Ellis Angelina Fiordellisi Janet Fitzpatrick Barbara Gerard Marion Gindes Ilene Lang Lisa Liberatore, M.D. Maria Maunello Deborah McKeever Elizabeth Muskat Genevieve Piturro Ruthmarie Stone Sally Mullins Thompson Consuelo Vasquez

Advertising Women of New York Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Tau Omega Chapter Financial Women’s Association League of Professional Theatre Women Nation to Nation Networking New York Women in Communications Roundtable of Food Professionals, NYC VISIONS/Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired Women in Development NY, Inc. Women in Housing and Finance Women’s Media Cente Women’s Projects & Productions WPEO/Meadows Office Furniture