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Extraordinary Women Awards

Wed, Nov 13 | 12-2 pm
Pierre Hotel, New York City

Honoring:

  • Lisa Blau

    Lisa Blau

    Lisa Blau

    Lisa Blau has spent the last decade as an active angel investor focused on consumer businesses, often in the health, wellness and active lifestyle space with a particular interest in supporting women-led entrepreneurial ventures. Together with Amanda Eilian, she is the founding partner of _able, an investment fund focused on funding early-stage startups in the healthy living and lifestyle space, with a focus on female founders. Some of their investments include Juice Beauty, Daily Harvest, The Wing, Primary Kids, Moon Juice, Goop and Chief. Previously, Lisa cofounded VitalJuice.com, a daily email newsletter on healthy living tips and trends that was acquired by Tasting Table. She also helped build and launch Portero, an online luxury goods auction platform sold to Richemont. She has experience building businesses from the ground up with partners such as AOL, Amazon, Kleiner Perkins and The Pilot Group. Lisa started her career as a producer at CNN. She is a Board Member of The New York Public Library, KIPP New York, and The Mount Sinai Parenting Center. Lisa also chairs the Investment Committee of the Leadership Now Project, a membership organization of business professionals committed to renewing democracy. She has a B.A. from Duke University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Lisa lives in New York City with her husband and three children.

  • Amanda Eilian

    Amanda Eilian

    Amanda Eilian

    Amanda Eilian is a General Partner and co-founder of __able Partners, a venture capital firm focused on early stage companies in the positive living space. With over 40 companies in the portfolio, and more than 75% with female founders, __able’s investments include Goop, The Wing, Daily Harvest, and Bulletproof. Amanda was also the co-founder of Videolicious, an enterprise software video creation platform backed by Amazon, and served as its President from 2007 to 2019 when it was acquired by a multinational strategic buyer. Amanda was instrumental in the launch and growth of Videolicious to over 5 million users in 103 countries, including Fortune 500 companies such as IBM, Walmart, SAP, Verizon and GE. Prior to forming Videolicious, Amanda was a founding partner of Capitol Acquisition Corporation, a special purpose acquisition vehicle (SPAC) that completed a $265 million initial public offering and became Two Harbors Investment Corp., a $3 billion REIT (NYSE: TWO). Amanda began her career in private equity and mergers and acquisitions.

    Amanda is a Truman Scholar and received her MBA from Harvard Business School where she was a Baker Scholar, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service with Honors in Economics. Amanda serves on the Board of Directors of Juice Beauty, the largest organic skincare brand in North America, and on the Board of Directors of the Melanoma Research Alliance, the largest private funder of melanoma research. She is also a member of the Tech:NYC Leadership Council. Amanda resides in New York City with her husband and four children.

  • Shantell Martin

    Shantell Martin

    Shantell Martin

    Shantell Martin’s work is marked by her trademark black-and-white, spontaneous freestyle compositions that break down walls between community and creator and immerse viewers in the creative process. As 92Y’s first multimedia artist in residence, and a leader in making art accessible, Shantell embodies the qualities and values that we at 92Y strive to celebrate, and she is committed to being part of the conversation and solution toward empowering women and fostering change. We are proud to have mounted Shantell’s groundbreaking exhibition, Why Now, and featured her in several talks and performances on our stage, including in conversation with Ilana Glazer. Her commitment to changing how the art world is seen and experienced, particularly at 92Y, has been an inspiration, and her impact as an extraordinary artist, role model and woman deserve to be recognized.

    Below the surface of Shantell Martin’s signature black and white drawings is an artists’ inquiry into the role of artist and viewer, where a work of art is more than an object of admiration disconnected from its inception. With a meditative process defined by an uninhibited flow, her compositions embody her internal state and the impermanence of the world around her. Exploring themes such as intersectionality, identity and play, Martin is a cultural facilitator, forging new connections between fine art, education, design, philosophy and technology.

  • Judy Glickman Lauder

    Judy Glickman Lauder

    Judy Glickman Lauder

    Judy Glickman Lauder is an internationally recognized photographer, humanitarian, and philanthropist. Her work is held in private collections and public institutions around the world, including the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the United States Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC. She is represented by the Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York City.

    A number of her photographs were recently published by the Aperture Foundation in a book titled Beyond the Shadows: The Holocaust and the Danish Exception (2018). These photographs are also the subject of two traveling exhibitions, Holocaust: The Presence of the Past and Resistance and Rescue: Denmark’s Response to the Holocaust, which have been shown at more than two hundred institutions around the world. Other books include Upon Reflection: Photographs by Judy Ellis Glickman (2012) and Both Sides of the Camera: Photographs from the Collection of Judith Ellis Glickman (2007), as well as a book on the work of her father, For the Love of It: the Photography of Irving Bennett Ellis (2008).

    Ms. Glickman Lauder serves on the Board of Trustees of the Portland Museum of Art and is a member of both the Getty Museum Photographic Council and the Photographic Visiting Committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In addition, she is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain.

Impact Award Honoree:

  • Dre Thomas

    Dre Thomas

    Dre Thomas

    Dre Thomas, 30, was raised in Los Angeles by a hardworking, service-minded single mom. Thomas works full time in the marketing department of WeWork, but she has become known for singlehandedly conceiving and launching Smile On Me, an organization that seeks to change the trajectory of girls’ lives through the basic tools of self care and the self esteem that comes with them.

    Growing up in a “family of hand-me-downs,” sharing things like clothes and hygiene products with her mom and sisters, Thomas understood how important it is for young girls to have their own stuff. She also knew that 30 percent of New York City girls live in poverty. The cost of feminine hygiene products can be as high as $100 annually and can compete with other basic necessities like toilet paper, food, and lodging. Often times, lower income girls do not feel adequately prepared for puberty. By not educating girls about this transition, we are neglecting an opportunity to build a healthy foundation for sexual and reproductive health.

    Since its 2017 launch, Thomas and Smile On Me have collected more than 5,000 feminine hygiene products, facilitated workshops and an annual summit focused on personal hygiene, leadership, and self-esteem, and distributed bags filled with hygiene products to hundreds of girls in low-income communities throughout New York City.

A celebration of extraordinary women who have impacted the community through their leadership and contributions in support of other women

Hosted by Emily Tisch Sussman

Co-Chairs
Carolyn & Laurence Belfer, Constance Littman, Meredith Milstein Polivy, Amy Ruben, Susan K. Stern, Ali Winter

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