Women and Girls Foundation Honors Women in Media

And, that would include new media.


The Women and Girls Foundation is celebrating Women in Media on Saturday, November 6th at the August Wilson Center (more info/RSVP here).

2010 Honorees:

Cynthia Closkey, President, Big Big Design, Co-Founder, PodCamp Pittsburgh, and Developer, iTwixie.com

Elaine Effort, Radio Newscaster, KQV Radio

Heather Starr Fiedler, Creator, PittsburghMom.com, New Media Professor, Point Park University

Vanessa German, Multi-media artist, writer, sculptor, performer and photographer

Lauren Lawley Head, Editor, Pittsburgh Business Times

Mary Robb Jackson, News Anchor, KDKA-TV

Sally Kalson, Columnist, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Beverly Morrow-Jones, Executive Director of Marketing, VisitPittsburgh

Debbie Norrell, Lifestyles Columnist, New Pittsburgh Courier

Cindy Skryzcki, Journalism Professor, University of Pittsburgh

Heide Waldbaum, Technical Production Manager for the film AVATAR, Visiting Professor, Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute

Shaina Wallace, Hip Hop Artist, High School Student at Winchester Thurston

Carolyn Wean, Retired Media Executive

Rosemary Welsch, Radio DJ, WYEP

Special Award of Distinction:

Virginia Montanez, Blogger and Writer @ That's Church and Pittsburgh Magazine

If you notice from the graphic above, quite a few members of the host committee are bloggers -- including me.
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