21 Leaders for the 21st Century Awards Gala Presented by Women’s eNews
At Tavern on The Green,NY NY
May 16th 2006

Each year,Women’s eNews presents awards to the unstoppable individuals who make groundbreaking news,often great personal risk, by confronting issues of particular concern to women.This prestigious awards ceremony, “21 Leaders for the 21st Century ,” now in its sixth year took place at the beautiful, Tavern on the Green Restaurant.

Women’s eNews is a prize-winning nonprofit daily internet- based news service supported by its readers ,events,foundations and re-sales of its content.It is the definitive source of substantive news-unavilable anywhere else-covering issues of particular concern to women and their allies. Launched in 2000,the independent prize-winning news service provides women,and those who are care about women,the news they need to know.Investigative reporter Rita Henley Jensen is Founder and editor in chief.

The 2006 Women’s eNews “21 Leaders for the 21st Century award winners were; Haifa Fahoum Al Kaylani, Businesswomen's Advocate, Eva Haller, Freedom Fighter, Sheila Nevins, Documentary Powerhouse, Karen Artichoker, Anti-Violence Strategist, Esther B. Hewlett, Donor Activist, The Global Fund for Women, Josette Perard, Haiti's Center Pole, Carol Bernick, Family Friendly Executive, Cindy Hounsell, Economic Security Advocate, Gail Twersky Reimer, Keeper of the Stories, Anna Burger, Labor Activist for Women, Helen Kornblum, Visionary, Victor Rivas Rivers, Anti-Violence Advocate, Anne Crews, Crusader Against Domestic Violence, Ellen Malcolm, Political Fundraiser Extraordinaire, Elizabeth Schweitzer, Spreader of Financial Know-How, Darlee Crockett, Voice for Protecting Reproductive Health, S. Renee Mitchell, Ida B. Wells Award Winner, Willa Shalit, Producer of Peace, Anita L. DeFrantz, Champion for Athletes, Donna J. Nelson, Scientist of Gender Bias, Irene Trowell-Harris, Advocate for Veterans.

An outstanding group of accomplished women presented the awards to the 21 leaders.They Were Mika Brzinski, correspondent and anchor,CBS News,Lynn Scherr,correspondent ABC News 20/20; Evelyn Hernandez editorial page editor el Diarrio / La Prensa; Irshad Manji, outspoken author; Raghida Dergham, senior diplomatic correspondent for AL-Hayat ; and Robin Hindrey, associated Press,international desk.

Women's eNews became independent on January 1, 2002. Women's eNews grew out of a 1996 roundtable discussion conceived and funded by the Barbara Lee Family Foundation and hosted by the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. After additional research on the need for a media outlet to distribute news of concern to women and the opportunity to provide women's voices to commercial media, NOW Legal Defense undertook in 1999 to create Women's eNews as an Internet-based news service for all women, with a special emphasis on being a resource for commercial media. Two years later, NOW Legal Defense determined Women's eNews could sustain its success and stand on its own.
Women's eNews has been widely tapped by other media from coast to coast and around the globe, from such leading media outlets as The New York Times, PBS, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Buffalo News, San Jose Mercury, the Birmingham News, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Spokane Spokesman-Leader, NPR and MSNBC to newspapers in Kuala Lampur and the Philippines.
We like to thank Ms Rita Henley Jensen,Founder and Editor in Chief of Women’s eNews and Karen Stevens, associate Publisher and office manager of Women’s eNews for their kind invites,for more information log onto Women’s eNews website at www.womensenews.org














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