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Extraordinary Women Awards

Honoring Leadership through Adversity

Tue, Nov 10, 2020 | 12-1 PM ET
Online Event

Honoring

  • Bennett

    Georgette Bennett

    Georgette Bennett

    Dr. Georgette Bennett is an award-winning sociologist, widely published author, popular lecturer, and former broadcast journalist. An innovative and entrepreneurial leader, she is an active philanthropist focusing on conflict resolution and intergroup relations. In 2013, Bennett founded the Multifaith Alliance for Syrian Refugees (MFA) and has since worked to raise awareness and mobilize more than $150 million of humanitarian aid on behalf of Syrian war victims. In 1992, she founded the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding. She is also a co-founder of the Global Covenant of Religions/Global Covenant Partners, which focuses on delegitimizing the use of religion to justify violence and extremism. Bennett served in the U.S. State Department Religion and Foreign Policy initiative’s working group on conflict mitigation, tasked with developing recommendations for the U.S. Secretary of State on countering religion-based violence. She served as Chair of the Jewish Funders Network and serves on the Advisory Boards of the International Rescue Committee. In addition, she is an Advisory Board member for the Milstein Center on Interreligious Dialogue at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Last November, Bennett was awarded the AARP Purpose Prize for her work with MFA.

  • Roxane Gay

    Roxane Gay

    Roxane Gay

    Roxane Gay’s writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, Harper’s Bazaar, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women and New York Times bestselling Hunger: A Memoir of My Body. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel and the editor of Best American Short Stories 2018. She is currently at work on film and television projects, a book of writing advice, an essay collection about television and culture, and a YA novel entitled The Year I Learned Everything.

  • Annette Insdorf

    Annette Insdorf

    Annette Insdorf

    Annette Insdorf is Professor of Film at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, and Moderator of the popular Reel Pieces series at Manhattan’s 92Y, where she has interviewed over 250 film celebrities. The daughter of Holocaust survivors, she is the author of the landmark study, Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust (with a foreword by Elie Wiesel); Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski; Francois Truffaut, a study of the French director’s work; Philip Kaufman, and Intimations: The Cinema of Wojciech Has. Her latest book is Cinematic Overtures: How to Read Opening Scenes, currently in its fourth printing.

  • Lisa Lewin

    Lisa Lewin

    Lisa Lewin

    Lisa Lewin is a strategist and operating executive with 25 years of experience leading and advising private, public, and nonprofit sector organizations. She is CEO of General Assembly, a pioneer in education and career transformation offering dynamic courses in data, design, business, technology and other high-demand skills. Lewin leads GA’s growth, creating sustainable talent pipelines for businesses and building transparent career pathways to the most transformational work.

    In June, Lewin and the Leadership Now project launched the Business for Racial Equity pledge, bringing together a coalition of leading executives to mobilize businesses to take concrete action to ‘dismantle three of the biggest levers of racist power in this country: biased policing, electoral disenfranchisement, and economic exclusion.’ Since then, the pledge has been signed by over 1,000 executives of businesses and organizations across sectors.

    Prior to General Assembly, Ms. Lewin served as President of Pearson’s teacher education group, and Managing Director of the publisher’s global learning technology group; Vice President of McGraw-Hill’s professional education group; management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group; and senior research project director with The NPD Group. She also co-founded Ethical Ventures, a New York City-based management consulting firm, where she advised some of the world’s most ambitious social enterprises and mission-driven companies.

    Lisa serves on the boards of the Wikimedia Foundation, Bank Street College of Education, and the Leadership Now Project. She received a BS from Washington University in St. Louis and an MBA with honors from Harvard Business School.

    Originally from southern Illinois, Lisa lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.

  • Ann Rubenstein Tisch

    Ann Rubenstein Tisch

    Ann Rubenstein Tisch

    Ann Rubenstein Tisch is the Founder and President of The Student Leadership Network (formerly known as Young Women’s Leadership Network), a groundbreaking network of all-girls public schools. There are currently five TYWLS schools in New York City, plus 15 affiliates across America. The Young Women's Leadership School of East Harlem was created in 1996, and was the first single-sex public school to open in more than 35 years in the US. It ignited the movement to establish single-sex public schools around the country, and now there are hundreds of them. Mrs. Tisch also created the CollegeBound Initiative (CBI) a college access program, which places full-time college guidance counselors in 30 NYC public schools. Mrs. Rubenstein Tisch had a 19 year career in broadcast journalism at WIBW-TV- WCCO TV, and NBC Network News as a National Correspondent. She was tapped as a substitute anchor on the “Today Show” and “NBC at Sunrise. Tisch serves as a trustee on the Board of Washington University in St. Louis, the Sesame Workshop, and Animal Medical Center in New York City, she is also a member of the Dean’s Council of The NYU Tisch School for the Arts. Ann lives in NYC with her husband Andrew Tisch and they have two daughters.

2020 Impact Award

  • Tamara Moise

    Dr. Tamara Moise

    Dr. Tamara Moise

    Dr. Tamara Moise is an advocate for ensuring access to high quality healthcare in underserved communities. A native New Yorker, Dr. Moise obtained her medical degree from the UMDNJ - School of Osteopathic Medicine and completed her Emergency Medicine residency in 2009 at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, New Jersey. In 2018, she co-founded Big Apple with the vision of providing medical services tailored to the diversity of New York City. In addition, she has provided medical services in Guatemala and Haiti to extend her passion for health equity on a global scale.

    Dr. Moise has received community and national honors for her contributions. Most recently, she has been an honoree of Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams’ 2020 Seventh Annual Black History Month Celebration Award, featured as a part of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter’s 2020 #beygood “This is Black History” campaign, and was a 2019 recipient of the Brooklyn Salutes Award.

    In media, has appeared on MSNBC, SiriusXM, NBC 4 News NY, Fox 5 News NY, News 12 Brooklyn and others to raise awareness about healthcare inequities and other critical healthcare issues.

 

Hosted by

  • Juju Chang

    Juju Chang

    ABC News Nightline Co-Anchor

    Juju Chang

    Juju Chang is an Emmy Award-winning co-anchor of ABC News’ Nightline. She also reports regularly for Good Morning America and 20/20.

    Chang has been recognized for her in-depth personal narratives set against the backdrop of pressing national and international news. Her exclusive television interview with transgender solider Chelsea Manning, after seven years in prison, explored issues of national security leaks and LGBTQ military service. Her profile of former firefighter Pat Hardison – after a groundbreaking face transplant – highlighted the crisis of organ donation. She also interviewed transgender teen Jazz Jennings and her journey towards getting gender confirmation surgery and advocacy for other young transgender people. Additionally, Chang anchored a special edition of Nightline, “Consent on Campus,” from Penn State which tackled complex issues surrounding sexual assault.

    Chang has also covered major breaking news for decades for ABC News, including Superstorm Sandy, the Orlando nightclub massacre and the Boston Marathon bombing. She has traveled around the world to report on global issues including a three-country trip through Central Africa on the front lines against Boko Haram in the latest on #bringbackourgirls, and to Honduras for “Femicide: the Untold War,” an eye-opening look at rampant violence against women.

    Chang has profiled newsmakers like Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, former Vice President Joe Biden and Oprah Winfrey as well as entertainers like Chris Pratt, Channing Tatum, Nicki Minaj, and Bella Thorne. Her extensive feature reporting covers parenting dilemmas, digital addictions and social media moguls like Dude Perfect and Esther the Wonder Pig.

    A former news anchor for Good Morning America, Chang joined ABC News as an entry level desk assistant in 1987 and rose to become a producer for World News Tonight. Her first on-air job was reporting for KGO-TV in San Francisco. After a year in Washington, D.C. covering the White House, Capitol Hill and the presidential election for NewsOne, she co-anchored the overnight show World News Now. Chang’s work has been recognized with numerous awards including multiple Emmy’s, Gracie’s, a DuPont, a Murrow and Peabody awards. In 2017, she was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Front Page Awards.

    Born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in Northern California, Chang graduated with honors from Stanford University with a B.A. in political science and communication. She is married to WNET President and CEO Neal Shapiro and together they have three sons. Chang is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a founding board member of the Korean American Community Foundation.

Featuring performances by

  • Cécile McLorin Salvant

    Cécile McLorin Salvant

  • Ali Stroker

    Ali Stroker

Co-Chairs
Laurence Belfer, Lisa Blau, Wendy Fisher, Corinne Goldman, Rebecca Kaden, Judy Glickman Lauder, Kathy Leventhal, Linda Mirels, Susan K. Stern

We celebrated game-changing and trailblazing women leading through adversity, bringing equity to their communities and rebuilding a world in which we all belong.

Committee

  • Kara Acker
  • Sandy Diamond
  • Renée Edelman
  • Sam Fox
  • Felice Friedman
  • Karen Gantz
  • Regina Goldman Krumholz
  • Rebecca Houck
  • Lori Kasowitz
  • Stacey Kopp
  • Lynn Kroll
  • Constance Littman
  • Leni May
  • Mary Kate McGrath
  • Miraldina Meyer
  • Jennifer Millstone
  • Abby Milstein
  • Howard P. Milstein
  • Cheryl Minikes
  • Abigail Nintzel
  • Andrea Olshan
  • Meredith Milstein Polivy
  • Leonard Polonsky
  • Jaime Rosenstein
  • Mark Ethan Toporek
  • Alison Winter
  • Jennefer Witter

More about the 92Y Extraordinary Women Awards

92nd Street Y’s innovative programming has supported generations of women and girls at all stages of their lives. Being there for our community in times of need is a tradition that has grown into our legacy. Emma Lazarus, the poet whose words grace the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in the 1880s, taught English to Russian Jewish immigrants at the 92nd Street Y. Clara de Hirsch founded a trade school for young, largely immigrant girls could live, learn, and become self-sufficient, the first of its kind in New York City, which evolved to become what’s now the 92Y Residence. In the 1930s, Martha Graham found a safe, open space in which to develop her art—and created what we now know as modern dance here at 92Y.

For 146 years, 92Y has brought together the female leaders, trailblazers and independent thinkers whose commitment to changing the status quo helped shape the world around us.

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Contact Us

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