On April 17, The 2008 EPIC Awards celebrated the 10th anniversary of The White House Project at a galvanizing moment in the history of women’s leadership. We honored the Circle of 10, an extraordinary group who embody women’s leadership with their philanthropic, personal, and professional endeavors: Barbara Bridges, Anne Delaney, Barbara Dobkin, Julie Gilbert, Mellody Hobson, Helen LaKelly Hunt, Swanee Hunt, Deborah Slaner Larkin, Linda Riefler, and J. Christine Wilson. EPIC Awards were presented to culture changers who brought images of women’s leadership to a global audience in 2007: Abigail E. Disney, Leymah Gbowee and Gini Reticker for the documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell; Marjane Satrapi and Kathleen Kennedy for the film Persepolis; and Glamour magazine for its body of work, including the book In Search of Hope: The Global Diaries of Mariane Pearl. Special guests participating in the event included Carla Harris and Diane Von Furstenberg. At The 2008 EPIC Awards, we announced the 10th Anniversary Campaign for The White House Project. The Board of Directors has pledged a collective gift of $500,000 to launch the campaign, with the goal of raising $1 million to elevate more women's voices at all levels. Please join the movement to advance women's leadership by giving a gift today. It's not only the right thing to do -- it's the only thing to do. With your help, we are building a new future for us all. Ten years after we set out to transform leadership, The White House Project's cross-sector approach is working. With the support of individuals like you, we are keeping the pipeline full of equipped, empowered, and energized women and we are challenging popular notions of what a leader looks like. It's an approach that is changing the face of leadership -- and it's needed more than ever. We find ourselves at a pivotal moment in our nation's history, facing enormous challenges, starving for new voices with new ideas. What we need is a solution we have never tried: a society where women sit fully at the tables of power, alongside men, to transform not only the ways that we lead but also the ways that we live.
For more information about this event please contact Kate Ford at kford@thewhitehouseproject.org or 212-261-4400 Learn more about past honorees. |
The White House Project created the EPIC (Enhancing Perceptions in Culture) Awards to honor innovators who bring positive images of women’s leadership to the American public, gathering over 400 prominent business, civic, political and entertainment leaders each April at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.