AWMF Presents 51st Annual Gracie Awards in NYC
The AWM Foundation presented the 51st Annual Gracie Awards Luncheon at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City yesterday (6/16). Foundation president Becky Brooks comments, “A Gracie Award can affirm a voice, elevate a career and open a door. For our student winners especially, it can be a moment that says, ‘You belong here.’ Through the Gracies, we are not only celebrating excellence – we are helping create the opportunities that strengthen the future of women in media.” Pictured above (from l-r) are Gloria Steinem, Amy Richards, and Better Business Bureau global CEO Rebekah Dopp after Dopp presented the two with the inaugural Gracies Torch Award. to Amy Richards and Gloria Steinem. “The most important measure of leadership is not what we accomplish for ourselves, but what we make possible for others,” Dopp said. “Amy and Gloria have spent decades showing us that leadership is a torch to carry together.”
November 13. This year’s honorees include: Rebekah Dopp, EVP of distribution, acquisitions and affiliate relations, The CW; Rosalyn Durant, EVP, programming and acquisitions, ESPN; Suzanne Grimes, president Westwood One and EVP corporate marketing, Cumulus Media; Rashida Jones, president, MSNBC; Susan Larkin, COO, Audacy; and Lori Locke, EVP and chief accounting officer,Warner Bros. Discovery. Additionally, AWM will recognize Kay Olin, owner and president of Olin and Associates, and former president of Local Focus, with the Legacy Leadership Award.