Tonight: Sixth Annual Women of Distinction Awards Ceremony

Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm

On Zoom and Streaming live on Facebook.com/RebeccaASeawright/Live

To RSVP: https://forms.gle/hWJE8GVqhBQJ9fdN7

Keynote Speaker & Woman of Special Distinction Senior Vice President Cynthia McCollum, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC)

Cynthia McCollum, Senior Vice President, Hospital Administration, has been at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for over 30 years.

2020 Honorees

Julia Fan

Advocate for Gender Equality

Janette Gautier

Director of the Dinner program at the Church of the Epiphany

Ruth Halberg

Former Democratic State Committeewoman for the 76th Assembly District

Andrea Jackson

Vice President of the Roosevelt Island Senior Association

Dr. Mini Kamboj

Chief Medical Epidemiologist, Infection Control at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Zena Kaufman

League of Women Voters

Louise Merriman, RD

Retired Administrative Director of Clinical Nutrition

Ann Meschery

Director of In-Park Events with New York City’s Carl Schurz Park Conservancy

Lisa Spedalle

A home care nurse with the Visiting Nurse Service

Bobbie Slonevsky

Vice President of the Roosevelt Island Historical Society

Lynda Smith

Dedicated district office volunteer

Office of Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright

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2021 Honorees

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Saundrea Coleman

Co-founder of the Holmes-Isaacs Coalition and Co-chair of the Social Justice Committee, Community Board 8

Gayle Baron

Co-chair of the Women and Families Committee, Community Board 8

Betsy Feist

Community Activist and freelance writer and editor

Deputy Inspector

Melissa Eger

NYPD 19th Precinct

Aiesha Eleusizov

Roosevelt Island Girl Scout Troop 3001 Leader

Dr. Katherine Teets Grimm

Child abuse pediatrician for Mount Sinai Medical System and the New York Center for Children

Wendy Machaver

Community Activist, educational rights activist, and public member of Community Board 8

Dorian Mecir

President

Dorian's Seafood Market

Josephine Napolitano

Owner

Arturo's Restaurant

Margaret Price

Journalist, editor, author and community activist

Gabrielle Ross

Programmer and app developer, proficient in multiple coding languages, and a High School sophomore at The Brearley School

Serena Sabet

A passionate and dedicated eighteen-year-old, who is currently a senior at the Spence School

Jeanne Straus

President of Straus News, publisher Our Town and of 16 other local newspapers in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania

Shari Weiner

Co-chair of the Voting Reform Task Force, Community Board 8

Julia Wischnevsky

Social justice and mental health advocate

Dr. Shirley Zussman

Therapist and neighborhood activist

Past Women of Distinction Honorees

2015

Judy Berdy, Barbara Chocky, Winnie Cudjoe, Helaine Eisenberg, Jill Eisner, Yvonne Fitzer, Monica Iken-Murphy, Patricia Sanders, Judy Schneider, Betty Wallerstein

2016

Loraine Brown, Alice Heyman, Zoe Markowitz, Ellen Polivy, Margie Smith, Eileen Toback

2017

Michele Birnbaum, Eva Bosbach, Judy Buck, Mary Coleman, Maureen Fairlie, Linda Heimer, Sherie Helstien, Wendy Hersh, Jean Kim, Dara Lamb, Jacqueline Ludorf, Valerie Mason, Marilyn Mehr, Sonia Ossorio, Liz Patrick, Barbara Parker, Lynn Shinozaki, Joyce Short, Louella Streitz, Betty Walker, Elaine Walsh

2018

Erlinda S. Brent, Reverend Beverly Dempsey, Joan Falcetta, Lisa Fernandez, Nikki Leopold, Rachel Levy, Marie Luarca-Reyes, Truly L. Mason, Madelaine D. Piel, Jennifer Ratner, Naomi Semeniuk, Mallory Spain, Carol Tweedy, Inspector Kathleen Walsh, Sharon Williams

2019

J. Khadijah Abdurahman, Alexandria Abenshon, Ruth Berghammer, Lori Bores, Jennilie Brewster, Alida Camp, Rossana Ceruzzi, Christine Crowther, Julia Ferguson, Faith S. Fraser, Shakima Grant, Ruth A. Gutman, Officer Lori Murray, Officer Ashley Pappas, Jovemay Santos, Officer Lorraine Wade, Arlene Williams

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