Woman of the Year RSVP System - Closed

Thank you for interest in attending the Woman of the Year event on March 11th, 2010. Unfortunately at this time registration is closed.

March 11, 2010		Special Event
6:00PM - 9:30PM		Woman of the Year Gala The Women's Council on Energy and the Environment (WCEE) requests your presence at its 29th annual Woman of the Year Gala as we honor our 2010 Woman of the Year, Maggie L. Fox, President and CEO of The Alliance for Climate Protection. Date: Thursday, March 11, 2010 Time: 6 - 9:30 PM Location: Renaissance Mayflower Hotel 1127 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20036 Cocktail Reception and Dinner Business Attire Valet parking is available -- closest metro is Farragut North. Event Details: WCEE’s signature annual event is the Woman of the Year Award Ceremony & Gala. WCEE created the Woman of the Year Award in 1985 to honor a woman of recognized stature in the energy and/or environment fields. This year WCEE is proud to honor Maggie L. Fox, President and CEO of The Alliance for Climate Protection, as our 2010 Woman of the Year Award recipient. Maggie L. Fox is a veteran of numerous national issues, political and environmental campaigns and has spent 30 years working to mobilize Americans to take action. Maggie is past National President of America Votes, a progressive coalition of over 40 organizations spearheading the largest voter mobilization and education effort in the nation. America Votes and its national partner organizations worked in 12 targeted states in 2006 to raise awareness and to engage and mobilize voters on a broad range of issues including the economy, health care, the environment, and education. America Votes leads the coordinated GOTV efforts of all of the nation’s leading progressive organizations. Previously, Maggie served as the Deputy Executive Director of the Sierra Club, the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots environmental advocacy organization. With many years of federal and state policy and electoral experience, Maggie provided strategic oversight and leadership to the Sierra Club, one of the nation’s most respected and effective institutions, according to the Aspen Institute. Maggie oversaw the start of the Sierra Club’s decadal strategic shift to focus primarily on building environmental community, and led numerous federal, state and regional policy efforts on climate change, energy policy, western public lands and water, Native American natural resource issues and agricultural reform in her 20 years with the Sierra Club. Most recently, Maggie has consulted with a number of organizations on their energy and climate campaigns including the Energy Future Coalition, Western Resource Advocates, and the Ocean Conservancy. Other prominent women in the environment and energy fields have been honored as WCEE’s Woman of the Year, they include: Denise Bode, CEO of American Wind Energy Association; Linda Fisher, Vice President & Chief Sustainability Officer, DuPont; the Honorable Eileen Claussen, President of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change and Strategies for the Global Environment; the Honorable Mary Landrieu, U.S. Senator from Louisiana; Kathleen A. McGinty, Secretary of the Environment, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Sheila Slocum Hollis, Managing Partner, Duane Morris LLP; and Nora Mead Brownell , Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. We are also pleased to announce that WCEE will present a Champion Award at this year’s WOY event to Suedeen Kelly. WCEE created the Champion Award in 1998 as a means of recognizing the importance of mentors for women professionals and to honor those individuals who have championed the advancement of women in our industries. If you are interested in becoming an individual sponsor or a corporate sponsor, please contact WCEE Executive Director, Joyce Chandran at executive.director@wcee.org
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Cost for current WCEE members: $100, Cost for non-members: $225.