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2014
AWARDS
Women Who Change the World
HOSTED BY:
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2014 Matrix AWARDS
Women who change the world
Contents
Boards of Directors �� 5
Matrix 2014 Committees �� 7
Who We Are �� 9
Message from the Mayor....................................................................................................................... 11
Message from the President�� 13
Message from the Foundation President�� 15
Message from the Host �� 17
Emcees �� 21
Matrix Award honorees
Wendy Clark: A Strong But Empathetic Leader�� 24
Queen Latifah: Focused on Fun and Counting Her Blessings�� 28
Jane Mayer: Challenging Stereotypes Since Childhood�� 32
Cynthia McFadden: Advancing the Art of Storytelling�� 36
Dyllan McGee: Living Her Passion�� 40
Eileen Naughton: A Trailblazing Executive�� 44
Jonelle Procope: She Embraced Possibilities�� 48
Hall of Fame – Matrix Recipients�� 51
Scholarship Recipients
Support Makes a Difference�� 52
Sponsored Awards�� 56
2014 Scholarship Recipients�� 60
Hall of Fame – Scholarship Recipients�� 62
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Congratulations
At Bank of America we’re connecting women with the human,
social and financial capital they need to succeed. Through our
partnerships we’ve learned that mentoring, networking and
access to capital are keys to women’s success. We’re
committed to putting our company’s extensive resources to
work for them – supporting their vision for the future and
furthering their ability to bring it to life.
We congratulate the honorees of the 2014 Matrix Awards and
join in celebrating their achievements.
Visit us at bankofamerica.com/women
Life’s better when we’re connected
©2014 Bank of America Corporation | ARH46WCM
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Boards of Directors
New York Women in Communications, Inc.
PRESIDENT
Liz Kaplow
President & CEO, Kaplow
PRESIDENT ELECT
Linda Descano, CFA
Managing Director and Head,
Partnerships & Branded Content,
North America Marketing
President & CEO, Women & Co.
Citibank, N.A.
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT
Nancy Weber
Executive Vice President/
Chief Marketing Officer
Meredith Corporation
SECRETARY
Stacy Martinet
Chief Marketing Officer, Mashable
VP–FINANCE/TREASURER
Cheryl Surana
Associate Director,
Marketing & Business Development
Columbia Business School
ASSISTANT TREASURER
Denise Gillen
Manager, Fragrances Communications
& Sustainability Communications
International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.
VP–INTEGRATED MARKETING
& COMMUNICATIONS
—DIGITAL
Dimitra DeFotis
Senior Editor, Barrons.com
VP–MEMBERSHIP
Diane Baranello
Principal, Coaching for Distinction
VP–STRATEGIC PLANNING
Jessica Kleiman
EVP, Communications, SANDOW
VP–MEMBERSHIP
Melissa Weisstuch
Director, Strategy & Communications
Affiliates Risk Management Services, Inc.
VP–STRATEGIC PLANNING
Susan Schulz
Editorial Brand Director,
Cosmopolitan,
Hearst Magazines
VP–PROGRAMMING
Lori Greene
Senior Partner, Director of Content,
Maxus Global
& COMMUNICATIONS
—EDITORIAL
Michele Hush
Chief Storyteller,
Internal Communications
Thomson Reuters
VP–PROGRAMMING
Ivy Li
Digital Marketing, Bloomberg
Philanthropies & Tusk Strategies
VP–SPONSORSHIP
Erika Nardini
Chief Marketing Officer
AOL Advertising
& COMMUNICATIONS —PR
Debbie Coffey
Vice President, North America
Communications & Global Public
Relations, Avon Products, Inc.
VP–FOUNDATION LIAISON
Megan Hess
Assistant Editor, Mashable
VP–FOUNDATION LIAISON
Julie Hochheiser Ilkovich
Managing Partner & Vice President,
Editorial Operations
Masthead Media Company
New York Women in Communications foundation
PRESIDENT
Judith Harrison
Senior Vice President, Staffing
and Diversity & Inclusion
Weber Shandwick
TREASURER
Leslie Hunt
Associate Dean for Graduate Studies
Sarah Lawrence College
ASSISTANT TREASURER
Gail Griffin
General Manager, Digital
Barron’s, Dow Jones & Co.
VP–MENTORING
Alysia Lew
Director, Corporate
Communications
Wyndham Worldwide
VP–EMPOWERMENT GRANT
Jeanne-Marie Byington
President
JM Byington & Assoc., Inc.
VP–EMPOWERMENT GRANT
Linda Levi
Managing Director
LSL Strategic Communications
VP–MENTORING
Julie Livingston
Senior Director, Client
Development, CarrotNewYork
VP–DEVELOPMENT
Beth-Ellen Keyes
Managing Director, SpeakerSpace
SECRETARY
Catherine L. Carlozzi
Business Writer
VP–DEVELOPMENT
Audrey Pass
Senior Director,
Communications & Public Affairs
Fox 5/My9 TV
VP–COMMUNICATIONS
Tricia Kenney
Chief Communications Officer
Publicis Kaplan Thaler
VP–HIGH SCHOOL
OUTREACH
Marcia Cole
CEO, Ivy Digital, Inc.
VP–COMMUNICATIONS
Alexandra Patchen
Senior Account Executive
Middleberg Communications, LLC
VP–HIGH SCHOOL
OUTREACH
Jessica Styles
Professional Coach/Adjunct
Professor at LIM College
Founder, The FAB Network, LLC
VP–SCHOLAR RELATIONS
Erin Galloway
Associate Director of Publicity and
Marketing, Penguin Group (USA)
VP–SCHOLAR RELATIONS
Taylor Trudon
Associate Blog Editor
The Huffington Post
VP–SCHOLARSHIPS
Saundra Thomas
VP-Community Affairs, WABC-TV
VP–STRATEGIC ALLIANCES
Francine E. Ryan
President, CMO, The Ryan Group
VP–STRATEGIC ALLIANCES
Karen Karpowich
MAI
VP–YOUNG PROFESSIONALS
Rachel Bowie
Associate Editor — Digital Editions,
Good Housekeeping,
Hearst Magazines
VP–STUDENT AFFAIRS
Megan Hess
Assistant Editor, Mashable
VP–STUDENT AFFAIRS
Julie Hochheiser Ilkovich
Managing Partner & Vice President,
Editorial Operations
Masthead Media Company
VP–SCHOLARSHIPS
Deirdre Wyeth
President, Wyeth Media
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THANK YOU TO OUR TOP
2014 MATRIX AWARDS SPONSORS
New York Women in Communications would like to show its appreciation for the generous support of the
corporations and individuals who have contributed to the financial success of the 2014 Matrix Awards
Luncheon. Proceeds from the luncheon are used by the organization to develop and maintain a full calendar
of affordable programs and special events and for networking and support systems for the organization’s
members and the community-at-large. Additionally, portions of the proceeds go to our Foundation.
Matrix Host
Matrix Platinum Plus Sponsor
Matrix Platinum Sponsor
Matrix Gold Sponsors
Matrix Silver Sponsors
Honoree Green Room Reception Sponsor
Matrix Journal Design
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To find out more about sponsoring our events, please call 212.297.2133 or go to our website — www.nywici.org.
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Matrix 2014 committees
LUNCHEON HOST
FINANCE COMMITTEE
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
KELLEN COMPANY
Michael Roth
Interpublic Group
Cheryl Surana
Columbia Business School
Beth-Ellen Keyes, Chair
Holly Koenig
Staff Director
Eileen Beverley
Nancy Westcott,
Production Director
Duda Bosnic
Shira Adler
Tara Busa
JOURNAL COMMITTEE
Patricia Beauvais
Bradley Clarke
Linda Levi, Co-Chair
LSL Strategic Communications
Lorenza Brascia
Patricia Maloney, Co-Chair
McVicker & Higginbotham
Denise Capuano
Caitlin Clifford
Michele Corcoran
Rita Csizmadia
Tom Cunningham
Kate Geskos
Tess Johnson
Nancy Rabstejnek Nichols
DEVELOPMENT
COMMITTEE
Beth-Ellen Keyes, Co-Chair
SpeakerSpace
Laura Sequenzia, Co-Chair
Condé Nast
Ramona Flood
Kim Ketchell
Milena Kozhin
Berenice Ladden
Liberty Dwyer Joan Dowling
AT&T
Helen Falk
Courtney Hart
Tekserve
Ramona Flood
Michele Hush
Thomson Reuters
Erin Galloway
Joyce Kauf
Rapaport Magazine
Jan Goldstoff
Ann Fry
Andrea Goldstein
Stephanie Guzman
Julie Livingston
CarrotNewYork
Lauren Hard
Elizabeth Harris
Rodeena Stephens
Greater Allen Cathedral
of New York
Yolanda Jackson
Rita Jammet
Tekla Szymanski
Content Strategist & Web
Developer
Judy Kalvin
Susan Keleman
Deirdre Wyeth
Wyeth Media
Joanne Sephine
Elizabeth Woolfe
DIGITAL COMMITTEE
Kendra Bracken-Ferguson,
Co-Chair
Digital Brand Architects
Ellery Moses
Associate Director
Angella Giannacopoulos
Membership Director
Kirsten Arthur
Manager, Meetings &
Expositions
Lysa Robinson
Staff Controller
KELLEN
COMMUNICATIONS
Kristen Kurtz
Account Supervisor,
Public Relations
June Price
Creative Director
Alana Sorrentino
Account Supervisor,
Public Relations
Valerie Kennedy
Kim Ketchell
Milena Kozhin
Molly Lockwood
Francine Ryan
Anna Brower
Maria Ungaro
Executive Director
Debbie Kunen
PUBLIC RELATIONS
COMMITTEE
Berenice Ladden
Chris Lee
Debbie Coffey, Co-Chair
Avon Products
Julie Livingston
Tricia Kenney, Co-Chair
Publicis Kaplan Thaler
Eunic Ortiz
Ritza Yana
R.Y. Inc! LLC
Francine Ryan
Lauren Ruotolo
Karen Schadow
Stacy Schierman
Eunic Ortiz, Co-Chair
Fleishman-Hillard
Lori Schwab
Summer Krecke
Digital Brand Architects
Taylor Trudon
Daylle Deanna Schwartz
Opal Vadhan
Elizabeth Woolfe
Sherli Yerushalm
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Thank You To Our
Event Partners
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As the premier organization for female communications professionals in the New York
metro area, New York Women in Communications, Inc. (NYWICI) has a long history.
Founded in 1929, today the not-for-profit association has over 2,000 members – from
senior executives to students and entrepreneurial business owners to young professionals
– in a variety of communications disciplines, including print journalism, broadcasting,
corporate communications, publishing, social media, advertising, integrated marketing,
photography, public relations, graphic design and more.
NYWICI’s mission is to empower women in all communications disciplines and at every career
stage to reach their full potential. Our platform revolves around two pillars: the advancement
of women at every stage of her career and the changing landscape of communications. We
promote professional growth and inspire members to achieve and share success. We actively
encourage leadership and professional development through committee and program
involvement as well as through networking opportunities that connect women who connect
the world. We also promote high standards and provide educational opportunities for current
members and the next generation of communications professionals.
Our members share a spirit of sisterhood, serving as role models, career advisors and
mentors. They are women who connect the world.
New York Women in Communications Foundation
The New York Women in Communications Foundation, formally established in 2000 after
having issued limited support since the mid-1990s, exists to help a sisterhood of women enter
or navigate the communications profession through financial support, professional guidance
and ongoing friendship. A non-profit arm of New York Women in Communications, Inc.,
the 501c3 Foundation annually awards scholarships ranging from $2,500 to $10,000 to
high school seniors, college and graduate school students. The Foundation also provides
mentoring, hosts educational programs, including an annual Student Communications
Career Conference for women beginning their careers or embarking on career transitions,
and offers empowerment grants to more seasoned NYWICI members.
Our Foundation is the largest one offering communications scholarships for women in
the tri-state area. Through 2013, we have awarded more than $1.2 million in scholarship
support to 222 women.
This year’s scholarship recipients will acquire skills and education that will help them
become future leaders in communications, and they will no doubt be just as outstanding,
exceptional and diverse as those that came before them.
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As the leading media and marketing company dedicated to inspiring and empowering
100 million women, Meredith congratulates the 2014 Matrix honorees. Their contributions
to the communications industry have helped pave the way for women everywhere.
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THE CITY OF NEW YORK
OFFI CE OF THE MAYOR
T HNEE WC IYT O
Y OF NEW YORK
RK, NY 10007
OFFI CE OF THE MAYOR
NEW YORK, NY 10007
April 28, 2014
April 28, 2014
Dear Friends:
Dear Friends:
It is a great pleasure to welcome everyone to the 2014 Matrix Awards.
It is a great pleasure to welcome everyone to the 2014 Matrix Awards.
For nearly a century, New York Women in Communications has supported our city’s
most talented communications professionals and helped them to achieve even greater success in
For nearly a century, New York Women in Communications has supported our city’s
fields ranging from digital media to publishing to marketing. By providing opportunities for
most talented communications professionals and helped them to achieve even greater success in
networking and career development, educational programming and coaching sessions, and access
fields ranging from digital media to publishing to marketing. By providing opportunities for
to health benefits, this organization is fulfilling its vitally important mission of empowering
networking and career development, educational programming and coaching sessions, and access
women and encouraging them to reach their greatest potential. NYWICI’s foundation also
to health benefits, this organization is fulfilling its vitally important mission of empowering
grants scholarships to promising young students, and Chirlane and I applaud its commitment to
women and encouraging them to reach their greatest potential. NYWICI’s foundation also
cultivating the next generation of women in communications and look forward to its programs
grants scholarships to promising young students, and Chirlane and I applaud its commitment to
helping to strengthen the role of women in this industry for many years to come.
cultivating the next generation of women in communications and look forward to its programs
helping to strengthen the role of women in this industry for many years to come.
On behalf of all New Yorkers, congratulations to this year’s honorees – Eileen Naughton,
Dyllan McGee, Jane Mayer, Queen Latifah, Cynthia McFadden, Jonelle Procope, and Wendy
On behalf of all New Yorkers, congratulations to this year’s honorees – Eileen Naughton,
Clark. Chirlane and I extend our best wishes for a wonderful luncheon and continued success.
Dyllan McGee, Jane Mayer, Queen Latifah, Cynthia McFadden, Jonelle Procope, and Wendy
Clark. Chirlane and I extend our best wishes for a wonderful luncheon and continued success.
Sincerely,
Sincerely,
Bill de Blasio
Mayor
Bill de Blasio
Mayor
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Your Future Starts Now
So Connect With Us For…
Networking
Career Development
Educational Opportunities
NYWICI’s platform revolves around two pillars: the
advancement of women at every stage of her career
and the changing landscape of communications. We’ve
developed tangible programming around these pillars,
creating conversation on issues affecting women in the
workplace and enabling our members to stay ahead of the
curve and expand their knowledge. Membership keeps
you connected to over 2,000 successful women and offers
unparalleled information and inspiration for professionals
looking to advance at any stage of her career.
Thank you to our Corporate Members, whose employees
have access to all of the benefits of New York Women in
Communications:
JOIN TODAY AT WWW.NYWICI.ORG
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Message from the President
Welcome to the 2014 Matrix Awards Luncheon. This is the 44th consecutive year New York
Women in Communications, Inc. (NYWICI) has gathered to celebrate the contributions
of exceptional women in our industry. Today, we honor women whose achievements and
leadership are changing our world. On behalf of the board and our 2,000 members, I offer
my sincere congratulations to our Matrix Award honorees and thank them for inspiring
and motivating us.
This event is an exciting and highly visible symbol of NYWICI’s pillars: the advancement
of women at every stage of their careers and the changing face of communications.
Throughout the year, we offer exceptional networking, mentoring, learning and growth
opportunities supporting these pillars. You can see this in the Foundation scholarships
presented to talented students, in the coaching sessions that help mid-career professionals
with negotiation skills, and in our new intergenerational panels that explore workplace
issues from different career stages.
NYWICI reaches across the many disciplines in our industry, providing a forum for us all
to share ideas. As technology blurs the lines between distinct areas, the need for crossfertilization of ideas and expertise has never been greater — and NYWICI is here to help
women navigate this changing landscape.
If you are not already a NYWICI member, I encourage you to join and make NYWICI
your professional home. For information on all the benefits of membership, visit
www.nywici.org/membership.
I want to thank IPG for hosting the 2014 Matrix Awards Luncheon and all the sponsors
and supporters who have helped make this year’s event possible. Most of all, I would like
to express gratitude to our members for the support and inspiration you share as we pursue
our goal of empowering all women in communications to reach their full potential.
All my best,
Liz Kaplow
President, New York Women in Communications
President & CEO, Kaplow
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Cheers
is proud to share this
moment of happiness with Wendy Clark,
recipient of the New York Women In
Communications Matrix Award.
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Message from the Foundation President
On behalf of the New York Women in Communications Foundation Board, it’s my pleasure
to welcome you to the 2014 Matrix Awards Luncheon and its celebration of Women Who
Change the World. Today, we honor richly-deserved past and present achievement, but we
also recognize potential future leaders of our industry — the 2014 New York Women in
Communications Foundation Scholarship Recipients.
The New York Women in Communications Foundation, a 501c3 and the non-profit arm
of New York Women in Communications, Inc. (NYWICI), focuses on giving women the
education they need to succeed. This year, we are once again able to reward young women
with scholarship support ranging from $2,500 to $10,000 each. We are only able to do so,
however, thanks to the generosity of organizations like Condé Nast, Hearst, Interpublic
Group, McGraw-Hill, Meredith, Scholastic, the Carlozzi Charitable Foundation and
the Loreen Arbus Foundation. In addition, this past year we established an endowment
fund, thanks to gifts from past Matrix honorees, including Robin Koval and Linda Kaplan
Thaler, matched by Publicis Kaplan Thaler, and Patrice Tanaka.
Your individual support is critical too. Please bid on some exciting lots in our online
CharityBuzz auction (www.charitybuzz.com/nywici) that runs through May 13. You
can also use our Foundation Visa Card, attend our summer Ladies Who Laugh comedy
fundraiser or donate to our Member Empowerment Grant (MEG) program that rewards
NYWICI members of more than three years with support to pursue career-enrichment or
transition opportunities. The 2014 MEG winners will be announced at our annual meeting
on May 20.
I am confident you will find today’s luncheon inspiring. I hope it will also become the
catalyst to trigger your support of our Foundation with a tax-deductible gift. Every
donation, no matter how large or small, counts and helps ensure we can continue to educate,
mentor, motivate and guide young women entering the communications profession as well
as others seeking to build or transition their careers. For more information or to make a
secure online donation, I urge you to go to www.nywici.org/foundation/support-us.
With thanks and warmest regards,
Judith Harrison
President, New York Women in Communications Foundation
Senior Vice President, Staffing and Diversity & Inclusion, Weber Shandwick
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By Women
This journal isn’t just a celebration
of women changing the game.
It’s an example. Congratulations
to the Hill Holliday women who
created this beautiful program:
Duda Bosnic—Designer, Tess
Johnson—Copywriter, Tara Busa
and Kate Geskos—Art Buyers,
and Caitlin Clifford—Project
Manager. Who says this is a
JEN BUNACH
Mad Men’s industry?
JEN BUNACH
Duda Bosnic
JEN BUNACH
JEN BUNACH
Tess Johnson
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Message from the Host
It is an honor for Interpublic to host the 2014 Matrix Awards for a second time. As one of
the world’s largest advertising and communications companies, IPG has more than 21,000
women who work at our digital, PR, events, advertising and media companies across the
globe. We understand the value of women in communications.
That’s why we are thrilled to honor today’s Matrix Award recipients. We’re especially
excited that our agency Hill Holliday, led by Chairman & CEO Karen Kaplan, designed
this year’s program. The journal features illustrations of the honorees stylized in the art
deco period. We chose this era because its women refused to be complacent or demure,
like today’s honorees who are all world-changers. The illustrations show the Matrix Award
honorees against a backdrop of a time when women were breaking out of the stifling gender
norms of another era.
At IPG, we work hard to be a leader at recruiting, retaining and promoting women at all
levels of our company. This commitment has taken many forms, from starting a global
Women’s Leadership Network within IPG to electing women to the IPG Board of Directors,
making us one of seven Fortune 500 companies with a 40% or higher representation of
women on its board.
For IPG, the interest in gender diversity is not merely altruistic: a company with a diverse
workforce performs better. Our emphasis on diversity helps in our recruiting, with our
investors and with our clients. We know that teams with broad experiences and inclusive
cultures generate higher levels of innovation and creativity. And we know specifically that
companies with the highest representation of women financially outperform companies
with the lowest representation.
The Matrix Awards are important for so many reasons — not least among them is that the
event serves as a key fundraiser for New York Women in Communications Foundation’s
annual scholarship program. These grants help cultivate future leaders in our business, as
you’ll see in the video our agency FCB has prepared featuring this year’s scholarship winners.
Today, we congratulate each of these impressive Matrix honorees and the scholarship
recipients for their inspiration and leadership. It is an honor to be in your company.
Michael Roth
CEO, Interpublic Group
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auction April 28 - May 13
charitybuzz.com/nywici
ONLINE AUCTION
bid now!
Bid on exciting lots that benefit scholarship support.
Check back often as new items get added.
Highlights include:
1. 4 VIP tickets to a Red Sox/Yankees
game at Fenway Park, Boston
2. Lunch with Amy Odell, Editor-in-Chief,
Cosmopolitan.com
1.
3. Attend a taping of “Meet the Press”
with David Gregory and tour the
NBC studio
4. Lunch with Honoree Jane Mayer
of The New Yorker
2.
5. Lunch for 4 with Honoree
Cynthia McFadden of NBC News
and Lesley Stahl of CBS News
6. Lunch for 4 with Honoree
Eileen Naughton of Google
5.
4.
6.
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AD AGE
THANKS THE
INFLUENCERS
GAME-CHANGERS
AND NEWSMAKERS
FOR KEEPING
US INSPIRED
CYNTHIA
MCFADDEN
WENDY
CLARK
QUEEN
LATIFAH
JANE
MAYER
DYLLAN
MCGEE
EILEEN
NAUGHTON
JONELLE
PROCOPE
CONGRATULATIONS
TO THE 2014 MATRIX
AWARD WINNERS.
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Emcees: Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb
For the first time in the history of the Matrix Awards, a pair of emcees will officiate this
year — but what better pair than Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb, Co-Hosts of the
fourth hour of NBC’s “Today.”
Kathie Lee has always pursued projects that inspire and challenge her, so it’s no surprise
she’s had a diverse and successful four-decade career as a TV host, actress, singer,
playwright, songwriter and author. Best known perhaps for 15 years as Co-Host of “Live
with Regis and Kathie Lee,” she has been busy since that run ended in 2000. That same
year, she made her Broadway debut in Stephen Sondheim’s “Putting it Together.” Next,
she originated the role of Marta Dunhill in Rupert Holmes’ “Thumbs” and then played
Miss Hannigan in a record-breaking run of “Annie” at Madison Square Garden. In 2005,
“Under the Bridge,” for which she wrote the book and lyrics and was a contributing
composer, opened off Broadway, and in 2012, her Tony-nominated musical, “Scandalous,”
opened on Broadway.
Kathie Lee is also a best-selling author of nine books, and she currently hosts a weekly
podcast and co-writes a New York Daily News column with Hoda.
Hoda began her broadcast journalism career as a CBS News Assistant in Cairo, Egypt,
before quickly moving on to a series of on-air anchoring and reporting assignments in
Mississippi, Illinois and Florida. She served as the “10PM News” Anchor and Reporter
for WWL, the CBS affiliate in New Orleans, from 1992-98.
She joined NBC News in 1998 as a “Dateline” correspondent, and since then Hoda
has covered a wide variety of domestic and international stories across all NBC News
platforms, including human interest features as well as the war in Iraq, the war on terror
in Afghanistan, the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians in the West Bank,
the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the devastating effects of the 2004 tsunami on
war-torn Burma. She also co-anchored an MSNBC special
on race, “Shades of Hope…Shadows of Hate,” reporting
from a former Birmingham, AL, KKK bombing site.
Hoda is also a best-selling author of two books, and she
has received numerous awards recognizing her journalism
work, including an Edward R. Murrow Award, a duPontColumbia Award and a George Peabody Award.
Hoda and Kathie Lee, along with the “Today”
team, won a 2010 Daytime Emmy for
Outstanding Morning Program. Reward
indeed for an hour that has been called
“appointment television.”
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Salutes
The 2014 Honorees
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Congratulations to 2014 Matrix Award Honoree Wendy Clark for embodying the spirit of Coca-Cola
and being named one of the industry’s most outstanding women.
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marketing communications for one of the world’s
most iconic brands, Coca-Cola. Before joining The
Coca-Cola Company in 2008, Wendy was Senior Vice
President of Advertising at AT&T, the world’s largest
communications company. At AT&T, she oversaw one
of the most ambitious re-branding advertising campaigns
in the company’s history — which brought us the slogan
“Your World. Delivered.”
In 2007, following the successful AT&T campaign,
Wendy was inducted into the American Advertising
Federation’s “Advertising Hall of Achievement.” After
joining Coca-Cola, Wendy was featured in Fortune’s
2009 and 2010 “40 Under 40” issues. In 2011, she was
named the Advertising Woman of the Year by Advertising
Women of New York.
Both candid and humble in discussing her
accomplishments, Wendy is quick to point to those who
have supported her. From an early age, she knew college
and a career were going to be a part of her life, thanks to
her mom. As a single mother raising an only child, Wendy
says her mom has had everything to do with her success.
“The time investment and sacrifice my mother gave still
blow my mind,” she recalls.
Today, Wendy’s husband of 15 years is “her rock” as
she manages a busy career and they raise three children
together. Wendy confides, “My husband has never tried
to stymie or limit my career.”
Still, balancing family with career hasn’t always been easy.
Over the years, Wendy admits she has had to learn to let
go of what she calls the “Superwoman Syndrome” and to
let others help.
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If luck has had anything to do with her success, Wendy
would say her good fortune is being passionate about
what she does. At Coca-Cola, Wendy finds motivation
from her team — and the past year was a banner year
for the group. The company took home the Creative
Marketer of the Year Award at the 2013 Cannes Lions
International Festival of Creativity. This accolade was
extremely rewarding, Wendy shares, because “everyone
on the team could take pride in this award. It was a team
effort across brands that we started over three years ago
and something the company had never won before.”
A Strong But
Empathetic Leader
by Joan Dowling
After Wendy Clark graduated from college, her first job
was as a receptionist at an ad agency. “I knew if I could
just get my foot in the door, I could prove myself,” she
says. Now at 43, Wendy has racked up more professional
accomplishments – and awards – than many women, or
men, aspire to in a lifetime.
Wendy’s team is also an industry leader in engaging
consumers through social media. Their “Liquid &
Linked” strategy leverages the power of share-worthy
stories and participating in the conversation to create
shared values — including the landmark 2012 “I’d like to
As the Senior Vice President for Global Sparkling
Brand Center, she directs brand strategy and integrated
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buy the world a Coke” campaign with Google. Inspired
by the classic 1971 “Hilltop” commercial, with just a few
clicks you could deliver a Coke to a vending machine
around the world, along with a message.
Shelly L azarus
presenter
At the 2013 thinkDoubleClick conference, Wendy cited
this campaign as an example of how marketers must resist
the status quo in today’s quickly evolving marketplace.
When Google first approached Coca-Cola about reimagining the franchise’s most prized asset digitally, the
easy answer was “no.” But Wendy says, “We have to be
relentless about pursuing that next ‘yes’.”
When discussing her tactics to bring out the best in her
team, Wendy paraphrases a quote from Nelson Mandela.
“In great times, you lead from the back, and in hard times,
you lead from the front,” she says. Undoubtedly, Wendy’s
leadership skills have factored into her success. In today’s
multigenerational workplace, she says openness is key.
“We can’t play from our individual corners,” Wendy
advises. “We must meet in the middle and honor what
each generation brings.”
Shelly Lazarus has been working in advertising for more
than four decades, almost all of that time at Ogilvy &
Mather. She has risen through the ranks there assuming
positions of increasing responsibilities in the management
of the company, including President of O&M Direct
North America, Ogilvy & Mather New York and Ogilvy
& Mather North America. Shelly was named Worldwide
CEO of Ogilvy & Mather in 1996 and Chairman in 1997.
She became Chairman Emeritus in 2012.
This philosophy extends to Wendy’s viewpoints on
how women can play to their strengths. Wendy believes
women shouldn’t be afraid to bring their unique qualities
to the workplace, including empathy, which she describes
as “women’s gift and our advantage.” Wendy explains
that too often women hide their empathetic nature,
emulating more traditionally masculine qualities instead.
“Just because you’re empathic does not mean you cannot
conduct business,” counters Wendy.
Shelly started at Ogilvy & Mather in 1971 when the
agency’s legendary founder David Ogilvy still walked the
halls preaching the purpose of advertising: to build great
brands. Under Shelly’s leadership, that essential mission
has remained the centerpiece of the company’s philosophy,
extending across regions and marketing disciplines.
In fact, tapping your softer side can transform you into
a formidable leader, she suggests. Empathy allows for a
humanness, she says, and an ability to bring your whole
self to your work. Wendy sums up how this works in
women’s favor: “When you bring your whole self, you
perform at your best.”
Shelly first met Wendy Clark as her client, and she has
never been disappointed. According to Shelly, Wendy is
“the embodiment of a great client who is a champion of
new ideas. She’s a force of nature who is brave, bold and
someone who won’t rest until she achieves what she set out
to do. She inspires everyone.”
Joan Dowling is a Marketing Strategist at AT&T.
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Hardly faint praise from someone as heralded as Shelly
herself whose achievements include being named Woman
of the Year in 1994 by Advertising Women in New York,
Business Woman of the Year by the New York City
Partnership in 1996 and Woman of the Year in 2002 by
the Direct Marketing Association. Shelly also received
a Matrix Award in 1995, and she was the first woman to
receive Columbia Business School’s Distinguished Leader
in Business Award and the Advertising Educational
Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Shelly was
inducted into the American Advertising Federation Hall
of Fame in 2013.
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she combined Queen with Latifah, another childhood
nickname that she had adopted with Arabic roots,
meaning delicate and kind. Dana went on to win a
Grammy for “U.N.I.T.Y,” a song that spoke out against
mistreatment of women, and received five other Grammy
nominations.
At 21, she made her acting debut in Spike Lee’s film,
“Jungle Fever,” as Lashawn, an outspoken waitress. The
role didn’t garner much screen time, but it launched an
acting career that would lead to playing Mama Morton,
the prison matron in “Chicago” – for which she received
an Oscar nomination – and leading roles in “Hairspray,”
“Beauty Shop” and “The Secret Life of Bees,” among
other films.
Dana’s acting career included television, too. She starred
in “Living Single,” Fox’s hit groundbreaking series,
Lifetime’s “Steel Magnolias” and HBO’s “Life Support,”
which earned her a Golden Globe Award.
She honed her business smarts along with her career
instincts. At 20, she founded the production company
Flavor Unit Entertainment with her mother and
childhood friend, Shakim Compere, making her a onewoman entertainment conglomerate.
These days she is busier than ever with “The Queen
Latifah Show,” a joint venture between Flavor Unit, Sony
and Overbrook Entertainment, owned by James Lassiter
and Will and Jada Pinkett Smith. The talk show debuted
last September, and she won the People’s Choice Favorite
New Talk Show Host Award this year. “My people, my
people!” she rejoiced when accepting the award. “This
means so much for me because it’s coming from you.”
Queen Latifah
Dana’s show is a reflection of her spirit, a mix of
inspirational and lighthearted, even wacky, segments.
Think celebrity pie-throwing contests for charity. “I
just want to have fun, like you have fun,” she told Jimmy
Fallon recently on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy
Fallon.”
Focused on Fun and
Counting Her Blessings
by Patricia Maloney
Always willing to take a stand, Dana officiated a mass
wedding at this year’s Grammys following Macklemore
and Ryan Lewis’ performance of their gay-marriage
anthem, “Same Love.” With more than 30 couples
gathering in the aisles, gay and straight, Dana proclaimed,
“We are here to celebrate love and harmony, in every key,
in every color.”
Growing up in modest circumstances in Newark, NJ,
Dana Elaine Owens dubbed herself The Queen. This
title became a self-fulfilling prophesy. Today, it seems
that there hasn’t been anything Dana has set her mind to
where she hasn’t reigned supreme.
In 1989, at the age of 19, Dana released her first rap
album, “All Hail the Queen” — a breakthrough in the
then male-dominated genre. For her professional name,
But her life hasn’t always been filled with harmony. When
Dana was a child, her parents divorced. Afterward, Dana,
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her older brother, Lance, and her mother lived in a public
housing project for nearly a year. Her mom juggled raising
her children with working nights at the post office and
going to college to become a teacher.
MARY J. BLIGE
presenter
As a teen, she says she felt awkward, maturing earlier
than other girls and towering over them in height, too. In
an “Aha! Moment” column in O, The Oprah Magazine,
Dana relates that she first felt comfortable in her body
– strong, beautiful, talented – during her eighth-grade
class play, “The Wiz.”
“In order to be fair, the teachers cast three students as
Dorothy. There was a girl who resembled the traditional
Dorothy — she was petite, spry and looked the part. The
second Dorothy was a really good actor. And then there
was me,” Dana recalls. “I was a big, tall Dorothy, but I
guess the teachers thought I had a good voice, because
I got to sing the finale, ‘Home.’ . . . I was totally in the
moment and, suddenly I became Dorothy, not Dana.
When I finished, I had a standing ovation.”
Mary J. Blige is known as the queen of R&B soul. A figure
of inspiration, transformation and empowerment, she is
one of the defining voices of the contemporary music era.
With eight multi-platinum albums, nine Grammy Awards, a
2012 Golden Globe nomination and four American Music
Awards, Mary is a global superstar with a fan base responsible
for worldwide sales of more than 50 million albums.
Sadly in 1992, shortly after Dana’s career started rising,
her brother died. Lance, a Newark police officer, was
killed riding a motorcycle that Dana had given him two
months earlier on his 24th birthday. Dana’s faith helped
her through the tough time that followed — and remains
important, as her 6-million-plus Twitter followers can
attest. Dana regularly tweets blessings to her “Fam,” as
she affectionately calls them.
Born in the Bronx, Mary began moving people with her
soulful voice at 18. She signed with Uptown Records in
1989, becoming the label’s youngest and first female artist.
She brought her own gritty, urban-rooted style – fusing
hip-hop, soul and honest, frank lyrics – to the forefront
on her 1992 debut album, “What’s the 411?” The multiplatinum set quickly spun off several hits, including two
R&B No.1 chart-toppers.
Dana counts her own blessings for the opportunities
she’s been given, while acknowledging that she’s taken
full advantage of them and kicked down the doors that
opened. Her sense of fearlessness in taking on new
challenges and her pursuit of excellence have proven a
formidable combo — and an inspiration to us all. The
Queen chose her moniker well.
Mary helped redefine R&B and began forging a unique
niche for herself on her more personal second album, 1994’s
“My Life.” Each subsequent album reads like a chapter from
her autobiography — “Share My World” (1997), “Mary”
(1999), “No More Drama” (2001), “Love & Life” (2003),
“The Breakthrough” (2005), “Growing Pains” (2007) and
“Stronger with Each Tear” (2009). Mary released her 11th
studio album, “A Mary Christmas,” in 2013, marking her
first-ever holiday album featuring soulful interpretations
of classic holiday tunes.
Patricia Maloney is a Senior Account Manager with McVicker
& Higginbotham, a direct response agency for nonprofits.
Mary is also active as a songwriter and philanthropist, and
she is also ramping up her acting career, starring in the film
adaptation of “Rock of Ages,” as Betty Shabazz in “Betty &
Coretta” for Lifetime and as the mysterious guardian angel
in “Black Nativity.”
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Mary considers Dana “like a sister who has watched me grow
and has always been there for me, acting like a guardian angel.”
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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2014
AWARD HONOREES
WENDY
CLARK
JANE
MAYER
Senior Vice President,
Global Sparkling Brand Center
THE COCA-COLA COMPANY
Staff Writer
THE NEW YORKER
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LATIFAH
CYNTHIA
MCFADDEN
Musician, Award-Winning Actress,
Record-Label President, Author,
Entrepreneur, and Cover Girl
Senior Legal
and Investigative
Co-Anchor
Correspondent
“NIGHTLINE,”
ABC NEWS
NBC News
DYLLAN
MCGEE
Founder & Executive Producer
MAKERS
EILEEN
NAUGHTON
JONELLE
PROCOPE
Vice President, Global Accounts
& Global Agencies
GOOGLE
President and
Chief Executive Officer
THE APOLLO THEATER
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Jane’s been a high achiever since childhood. “I was born
with a brilliant older brother,” she says, “so I learned early
on that when the big guys say you can’t run as fast, jump
as far, or do what they do, the only proper response is,
‘Oh yeah? Watch me.’ So, I guess I’ve been ‘leaning in’ my
whole life.”
However, Jane feels that it takes more than attitude
to propel women forward. “I actually consider myself
a beneficiary of dramatic political and legal changes
that pressured businesses to open opportunities to
women. I was given breaks because I was female
at a time when newsrooms were feeling pressure to
showcase female bylines,” she explains. “So leaning in is
all well and good, but I think it takes a collective piling
on, politically and legally, to really achieve and sustain
gender equality.”
Jane has a knack for being in the right place at the right
time. She says, “I’ve often felt like a version of Typhoid
Mary in that for years I kept arriving almost accidentally
where there were suddenly huge outbreaks of worldwide
news.”
As a young reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Jane
volunteered to fill in during what was supposed to be a
slow period in Beirut in October 1983, when the U.S.
Marine barracks were blown up by Islamic terrorists
practically in front of her. “I filed my heart out,” she
recalls, “and then got drafted as a result to cover the
White House.”
A few years later, on a whim, Jane asked the paper to
send her to Berlin to cover what seemed like small and
likely insignificant protests in East Germany. “About two
days later, as I was standing there with a notebook, the
Berlin Wall fell. Everywhere I went, it seemed, for years,
fascinating and history-changing news kept breaking out,
all of which became turning points in both my work and
life,” she says.
Jane Mayer
Challenging Stereot ypes
Since Childhood
Those experiences have helped bring Jane numerous
awards, including the 2013 I.F. Stone Award from the
Nieman Foundation at Harvard, the 2012 Toner Prize
for political reporting, the 2011 George Polk Award for
magazine reporting and the 2011 James Aronson Award
for social justice. Her best-selling 2008 book, “The
Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War in Terror
Turned into a War on American Ideals,” won the 2009
Goldsmith Book Prize from Harvard, the 2008 John
Chancellor Award for Journalistic Excellence and a 2008
by Michele Hush
Jane Mayer is an award-winning journalist and, since
1995, Staff Writer with The New Yorker’s Washington,
DC, bureau. She got her start as a stringer for Time,
spent two years as a reporter at The Washington
Star, and then moved to The Wall Street Journal,
where, in 1984, she became the paper’s first female
White House correspondent.
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Guggenheim Foundation Grant. It was also named a top
10 book of the year by The New York Times, and book of
the year by The Economist, Salon, Slate and Bloomberg.
David Remnick
Jane says being a Matrix honoree “makes me feel as if I have
arrived at a professional level that barely existed when I
started out. It’s wonderful to have gone from an outsider
and upstart in a profession that was short on women, to
getting such an esteemed award in a field now teeming
with them.”
presenter
Her inspirations include Pete Seeger, whose family ran
the elementary school and summer camp Jane attended.
She says, “Tom Paxton, a fellow folksinger, described
Seeger as someone who was all about the song, not about
himself. I admire that spirit — especially as our culture
gets increasingly obsessed with celebrity.”
When asked about her favorite personal accomplishments,
Jane pointed to her “luck at meeting and marrying the
right guy and raising a daughter whose intelligence, humor
and poise constantly astound me, as well as making and
keeping a circle of friends who are endlessly interesting
and supportive. While keeping all these plates spinning
in the air, I’ve felt proud and lucky to be able to keep a
hand in work that taxes every brain cell I have left, and
on the best days, feels as if it really matters.”
David Remnick began his reporting career at The
Washington Post in 1982, becoming that paper’s
Moscow correspondent in 1988. He became a staff
writer at The New Yorker in 1992. Since he became
Editor of The New Yorker in 1998, the magazine has
won 33 National Magazine Awards.
David is also the author of several books, including
“King of the World,” “Resurrection” and “Lenin’s
Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire,” for
which he received both the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for
non-fiction and a George Polk Award for excellence
in journalism. His most recent book is “The Bridge:
The Life and Rise of Barack Obama.”
And how does she keep the plates spinning? “Take-out
food, a paid dog-walker, a saintly – sometimes – husband
and the endless indulgence of editors and friends.”
Michele Hush is a Writer and Editor on the internal
communications team at Thomson Reuters.
In 2000, David was named Advertising Age’s Editor of
the Year. More recently, he was a NBC commentator
at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
David has called Jane Mayer’s reporting
“groundbreaking” and says she is “the consummate
investigative reporter of our time.”
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The embodiment of ethics and principle, Cynthia
has won nearly every major award in broadcast news,
including the Peabody, Emmy, duPont-Columbia and
Foreign Press Club honors. But she says receiving a
Matrix Award is “special. It means the world to me to be
recognized by my colleagues, especially by other women
in the business.”
But the award should be no surprise. Throughout her
life, Cynthia has always strived for the gold standard.
After graduating Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude
from Bowdoin College and receiving a law degree from
Columbia University, she was determined to pursue a
journalism career.
Early on, she served as the executive producer for
television news pioneer Fred W. Friendly, who raised
the bar on the quality of TV journalism. “Fred’s passion,
vision and belief in journalism’s role in society is an
enduring influence,” she notes. Later, while producing
an hour at Lifetime TV, Cynthia was given her first oncamera journalistic role by fellow Matrix honoree Patricia
Fili-Krushel. This led to helping launch Courtroom TV
with Steve Brill in 1991 and serving as that network’s
anchor. She eventually covered more than 200 trials for
Courtroom TV. In 1994, Barbara Walters, another Matrix
honoree, suggested to Roone Arledge that Cynthia move
to ABC News as the network’s legal correspondent.
During her tenure at ABC, Cynthia has landed numerous
high-profile interviews with a host of celebrities and world
leaders, including the presidents of the U.S., Pakistan,
Rwanda and Chile. Most recently, she met with the Pope
at the Vatican as he was introduced to Philomena Lee,
the woman whose story inspired “Philomena,” the 2014
Academy Award-nominated film. She has interviewed
Hillary Rodham Clinton extensively, traveling with her
around the globe and conducting her last interview as
Secretary of State. Additionally, she took an exclusive
and rare look inside the new Ku Klux Klan and covered
the tragic school shooting in Newtown, CT.
Cynthia McFadden
Advancing the Art
of Story telling
by Julie Livingston
Cynthia is most proud, however, of the many
investigations she has conducted into the struggles of
women and children around the world, from the Indian
brothels, where children are forced into sexual slavery, to
the Haitian orphanages, where children are warehoused.
“My career has provided phenomenal opportunities for
me to meet people from all walks of life,” she says. “It is
an honor and a privilege to try to tell their stories.”
For the last 20 years, Cynthia McFadden has traveled the
world reporting for ABC News. For half that time, she was
the Co-Anchor of “Nightline.” Late last month, Cynthia
became Senior Legal and Investigative Correspondent
for NBC News, where she will contribute stories across
the network’s broadcasts and platforms.
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When asked about the people who have influenced her
life, Cynthia speaks lovingly about her parents, who
adopted her as a baby. With their encouragement, she
gained the confidence to leave the small town in Maine
where she grew up and “become whoever I wanted to be.”
Christiane Amanpour
presenter
When asked about mentors, Cynthia relates how through
a bizarre twist of fate she met Katharine Hepburn while
she was in college. “When I moved to New York to go
to law school,” she says, “Kate became like a second
mother to me, prodding, encouraging and correcting
me as needed.” The Academy Award-winning actress
“encouraged me to dream. But most important, she
encouraged me to laugh at myself,” admits Cynthia. “She
used to say, ‘There are only two kinds of experiences: a
good time and a good story.’ When things went wrong,
as they inevitably do sometimes, she’d say, ‘Ah, another
great chapter for your book’!”
When it comes to “leaning in,” she explains that “one
of the pleasures of getting older is helping the next
generation of journalists. The way we tell stories will
continue to change, but humans will always seek truth
and thirst for great stories.” Cynthia makes it a point
to hire assistants who want to break into the business.
“They need passion and curiosity. They learn from me,
and I learn tremendously from them,” she acknowledges.
Christiane Amanpour is Host of “Amanpour,” a nightly
interview program, and Chief International Correspondent
for CNN International as well as Global Affairs Anchor
at ABC News. Her illustrious career in journalism spans
three decades.
When Christiane became an international correspondent
for CNN in 1990, her first major assignment for CNN
was covering the Gulf War. She has since reported from
the world’s major hotspots, including Afghanistan, Iraq,
Iran, Pakistan, Somalia, Israel, the Palestine territories,
Asia, Rwanda and the U.S. during Hurricane Katrina. She
has interviewed most of the top world leaders over the past
two decades, including securing the only interview with
Hosni Mubarak and an exclusive with Moammar Gadhafi
during the Arab Spring.
Cynthia is grateful and reflects upon achieving so much:
“It’s wonderful to wake up every day and be blessed to
have work you care about. I want people to watch my
stories and say, ‘I never knew that before, I never felt that
before or I never saw it that way.’ I hope that when I am
doing my best work, I allow viewers to see a part of the
world in a powerful new light so that they can then make
up their own minds on issues of the day.”
She has received nearly every broadcast award possible,
including an inaugural Television Academy Award, 11
Emmys for news and documentaries, four George Foster
Peabody Awards, two George Polk Awards, three duPontColumbia Awards and a 2005 Matrix Award. She has also
received nine honorary degrees and is a member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Commander
of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire and an
Honorary Citizen of Sarajevo.
Julie Livingston is Senior Director, Client Development, at
CarrotNewYork.
A valued colleague and trusted friend of Cynthia McFadden,
they shared not only office space at ABC News, but ideals
and ideas as well when it comes to journalism and the
power of television news. Christiane cites Cynthia’s unique
grounding in law as having “endowed her with the kind of
prosecutorial skills that lead to a sharp and entertaining
evolution in all her interviews.”
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New York Women in Communications President
Liz Kaplow Congratulates the
2014 Matrix Award Winners
Thank you for leading the way, raising the bar,
and inspiring us to reach for new heights.
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Wendy Clark
Jane Mayer
Cynthia McFadden
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of inspiring and pioneering women who transformed
American culture over the past 50 years. Like her other
work, it reflects Dyllan’s passion for social justice and
her dedication to creating shows that make an impact on
people’s attitudes.
She originally wanted to be an actress, but then “I
dreamed of being Katie Couric,” Dyllan explains. Her
desire to emulate the-then anchor of “Today” made
Dyllan consider being a newscaster. However, after seeing
a tape of herself in front of the camera, Dyllan realized
behind-the-scenes work would be her métier.
As an intern right out of college, Dyllan fell in love with
documentary reporting. In 2008, she joined Kunhardt,
which later became Kunhardt McGee, where she now
oversees all documentary and web programming. Her
theater training turned out to be very useful.
“Producing is like putting on a play,” she says, adding it
“has to be entertaining.” Her many productions include
“The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross,” a sixhour documentary hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. for
PBS on the African American experience from slavery to
Barack Obama, “This Emotional Life” (PBS), “African
American Lives 1 and 2” (PBS), “Oprah’s Roots” (PBS),
“The American President” (PBS) and “In Memoriam;
9/11/01” (HBO). Dyllan received an Emmy for “Teddy:
In His Own Words,” about Senator Edward Kennedy.
It was Gloria Steinem who planted the seed for MAKERS
by turning down Dyllan’s request to do a story of her life,
telling her instead that there was a bigger story out there
that needed to be told. It turned out to be a defining
moment for Dyllan.
Dyllan McGee
“I spent my early years in New York City never feeling
restrained as a girl, went to college, got married, had kids
and just assumed this is how my life would be and how
it has always been. It wasn’t until I listened to the stories
that are a part of MAKERS that I realized how these
choices were privileges by any other name and that there
was a lot of work that went into my being able to access
them,” Dyllan noted in The Huffington Post last year.
Living Her Passion
by Joyce Kauf
When Dyllan McGee tells people, “I’ve really only had
one resume in my life,” she knows the amazed reaction it
elicits. Yet, in reality her career has followed a forward
trajectory from studying acting at college to becoming
an Emmy-winning producer and Founder and Executive
Producer of “MAKERS: Women Who Make America.”
“I was a product of the women’s movement without
even knowing what the women’s movement was,” Dyllan
continued in that post. The recognition that she wasn’t
alone also made her aware that many women never had
the opportunities to realize their ambitions and “the hard
work of many women still goes overlooked.” While that
fact should have been the impetus for MAKERS, Dyllan
MAKERS is a multi-platform endeavor, created in
conjunction with PBS and AOL, that tells the story
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honestly reveals that she approached it as a filmmaker
first. “I thought it would be a good story,” she says.
However, it turned into a “personally transformative”
experience — and one that Dyllan knew was so important
that it needed to start with a digital platform, which led
her to partner with AOL.
Gloria Steinem
presenter
The digital first concept turned into a living library at
www.makers.com. “We conducted interviews with
groundbreaking women from all walks of life and created
a dynamic video archive,” Dyllan explains. “We could tell
that vast and personal story without being confined to
a single narrative of a film. And then we could build a
documentary from the ground up out of the best material
and not worry as much about what stories we were leaving
out.” The resulting three-hour documentary was shown
on PBS. After that, Gloria agreed to have her story told in
“Gloria: In Her Own Words” (HBO), for which Dyllan
received an Emmy nomination.
In some ways, Dyllan considers MAKERS to be
“bookends” to her work: “I came full circle and really
did become an anchor.” But for her, it was really a gamechanger. “I realized that it’s easy to sit back and believe in
change,” she says, “but not stand up for it — standing up
takes effort and risk and that can be uncomfortable.” Her
advice to other women: “Go for your dreams. You don’t
have to be famous to achieve your dreams.”
Gloria Steinem is a legendary writer, lecturer, editor and
feminist activist. In 1972, she co-founded Ms. Magazine and
remained one of its editors for 15 years. Today, she serves as
a consulting editor and was instrumental in the magazine’s
move to join with and be published by the Feminist Majority
Foundation. In 1969, she helped found New York, where she
was a political columnist and features writer.
As a freelancer, Gloria’s work has appeared in Esquire, The
New York Times and many other publications, and she has
authored two best-selling books. She also produced an
HBO documentary on child abuse, a feature film about
the death penalty for Lifetime, and has been the subject of
profiles on HBO, Lifetime and Showtime.
Joyce Kauf is a Senior Editor at Rapaport Magazine covering
marketing, retail and merchandising trends.
Gloria co-founded the Women’s Media Center in 2004 and
was President and Co-Founder of Voters for Choice, a prochoice political action committee, for 25 years. Today, she
serves on the board of Choice USA, a national organization
that supports young pro-choice leadership and works to
preserve comprehensive sex education in schools. She was
also a Founding President of the Ms. Foundation for Women
and a Founder of Take Our Daughters to Work Day.
Gloria’s work has been recognized with many awards,
including the Front Page and Clarion Awards, the Women’s
Sports Journalism Award, an Emmy citation for excellence
in television writing, the Lifetime Achievement Award from
the Society of Professional Journalists and the University
of Missouri School of Journalism Award for Distinguished
Service. She was also an inaugural recipient of a Matrix
Award from New York Women in Communications in
1971 and was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of
Fame in 1993.
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American Express® proudly
congratulates the
2014 Matrix Award recipients
2014
for their outstanding leadership and
extraordinary achievements.
Matrix
Awards
WOMEN WHO CHANGE
THE WORLD
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Congratulations
To our own Eileen Naughton and all of the honorees.
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and father with instilling in her a strong work ethic and
can-do attitude. Eileen says, “There was just a buckledown and do-your-work attitude, and it didn’t suffer
foolishness. There was no laziness in our house.”
Her early commitment to diligence and responsibility
continued throughout college at the University of
Pennsylvania, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in
economics and international relations, and later her
master’s in business administration from the Wharton
School. But Eileen was always attracted to serious
journalism and says her dream job was to be the Paris
bureau chief of Time, an ideal goal in the heyday of
magazine publishing.
“That to me was the pinnacle — the most wonderful job
that combined writing and journalism, which I cared
about, living in Paris and speaking French, and having
an intellectual pursuit,” recalls Eileen. She weighed
divergent career paths when she received offers to join a
high-profile bank or a newspaper syndicate. Pursuing the
newspaper opportunity and strategically placing herself
on the media track immediately out of school turned out
to be the right career move for Eileen.
She points out that nabbing a role at Time Inc., the
company she long revered, was no fluke. “I wound up
there for a reason,” she says. “I admired the company as
a younger woman. I wanted to be associated with those
reporters and editors and the intelligence they brought
to bear on the craft.”
Eileen emphasizes that young women, particularly those
pursuing a career in communications, should be flexible
but smart when laying a career foundation: “You don’t
have to know exactly what you want to grow up to be,
but just know what you like to do and put yourself in a
position or profession that allows you to get closer and
closer. Then with every subsequent assignment, you can
round out your skill set.”
Eileen Naughton
A Trailblazing Executive
During her tenure at Time Inc. and Time Warner, Eileen
did just that. She served as General Manager of Fortune,
President of Time Inc. Interactive, responsible for the
digital assets of Time Warner’s publishing division,
and President of the TIME Group. Additionally, she
shepherded the company during the AOL-Time Warner
merger as Vice President of Investor Relations — no
small feat as the multinational corporation became the
world’s largest media conglomerate under her purview.
by Courtney Hart
A tenacious and witty communications executive
trailblazing at one of the world’s most recognizable
companies, Eileen Naughton is a woman of action. She’s
as impassioned about the need for women in STEM –
science, technology, engineering and math – as she is
proud of her three children and their accomplishments.
Growing up in the suburbs of New York City to parents
who emigrated from Ireland, Eileen credits her mother
Honing her roster of skills at Time Inc. gave Eileen the
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background to hit the ground running at Google in
2006, when she became responsible for DoubleClick,
followed by overseeing activity and strategy across
YouTube and the Google Display Network. Now, serving
as Vice President in Google’s global sales organizations,
Eileen considers the “Lean In” phenomenon – coined
by former colleague Sheryl Sandberg whom Eileen calls
an “incredible business builder and driver” – a salient
chance to continue the dialogue about advancement
opportunities for women in business.
David Gregory
presenter
“I’ve had a number of occasions in my life to make sure
that attention is paid to the issues that matter to women,”
says Eileen, citing the Women at Google group as one
of her proudest achievements to date. Founded with
fellow senior women and created with the intent to
discuss issues specific to women in leadership, the group
has blossomed into the single largest employee resource
group at the company.
When it comes to giving career advice, Eileen counsels
younger women to be attuned to company news and
updates, actively participate and be invested. “Be
ruthlessly prepared and know your stuff,” offers Eileen.
She coaches women at Google to take charge in meetings,
instructing them not to “sit on your hands politely
and wait for some other person to direct the entire
conversation. Be unafraid to take a stand, even if it’s not
popular or even if you’re the one calling out the elephant
in the room.”
David Gregory is Moderator of NBC’s “Meet the Press,”
America’s longest-running television program. Since David
took the helm in 2008, the program has maintained its
tradition as “must-see” television for politics and public
policy. Additionally, David has ushered in a new digital
era for the show, expanding its reach via the program’s
blog, Press Pass, its #TweetThePress interview series, its
Flipboard magazine and through social media sites. David
has also reported from Afghanistan for “Meet the Press,”
landing the first network interview with General David
Petraeus after he took command of U.S. and NATO forces
there. He also dedicated hour-long programs to examine
the health care debate, the war in Afghanistan and the Gulf
oil spill.
Finally, Eileen is characteristically humble when she
reflects on receiving the call about her recognition as a
Matrix Award winner. “I’ve been to many Matrix Award
luncheons and moved by the honorees. It’s a potent
group of talented women and a fantastic cohort to be in,”
concludes Eileen.
Since joining NBC News in 1995, David has served as
both a Chicago and Los Angeles-based correspondent,
covering the O.J. Simpson and Oklahoma City bomber
trials. He first came to Washington, D.C., in 1998 to cover
the Clinton impeachment story for MSNBC and went on
to serve as NBC’s Chief White House Correspondent for
eight years. Additionally, he has covered three presidential
campaigns, reported extensively on the aftermath of 9/11
and as a contributor to other NBC and MSNBC shows such
as “Today,” “Nightly News” and “Morning Joe.” During
his coverage of the White House, Washingtonian named
David one of Washington’s 50 best and most influential
journalists and labeled him the “firebrand in the first row.”
Courtney Hart is Marketing Manager of Business Solutions at
Tekserve, a technology company and Apple reseller.
David has known Eileen Naughton for nearly 20 years,
both admiring her trailblazing work as a media executive
and as a friend enjoying special occasions, holidays and lazy
weekends as their families share life’s joys and challenges.
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FOR ANN TAYLOR
Congratulations to the 2014 MATRIX AWARDS HONOREES
The Women Who Can Change The World!
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Jonelle,
we are proud of
your leadership.
We applaud you,
Yolanda Ferrell-Brown
Cathie Black
Alicia Bythewood
Joannie Danielides
Congratulations on your Matrix award!
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eventually to the Apollo. In 2003, Jonelle was serving
on the theater’s board when she was asked to take over
the foundation presidency. She hesitated at first. The
building was in disrepair, and the organization was beset
with financial and management problems.
But again, she followed her heart. Today, Jonelle considers
her role at the Apollo by far her greatest professional
achievement. Though she has faced many challenges,
she has never been discouraged. “If the path you’re on
has no obstacles,” Jonelle says, “it probably doesn’t lead
anywhere.”
The Harlem landmark is currently in an exciting
expansion phase, on its way to fulfilling Jonelle’s goal
“to create a world-class performing arts center that is
sustainable for future decades.” The building’s façade,
marquee, stage and greenroom have been renovated.
For the past five years, the theater has operated with a
balanced and growing budget. Turning 80 this year, the
Apollo is currently focused on programming efforts. It
offers double the number of programs that it did last year
and is planning for its first international tour.
Jonelle’s main influences at every stage of her career have
been her family. She credits her parents with helping her
to become the woman she is today: “As a young girl, my
mother and father always encouraged me and made me
feel I could do anything in life.” Her older brother and
his wife were strong supporters early in her career. It was
her brother who urged her to attend law school, and he
and his wife “helped me establish my work ethic,” she
admits.
Jonelle Procope
But her husband of 30 years has had the biggest influence.
“He has been such a champion of my professional growth,”
she says. “He is the very best sounding board.”
During her career, Jonelle has been lucky to have access
to more seasoned professionals. As a board member
at the Apollo, she benefitted from the guidance of its
chairman, former Time Warner Chairman and CEO
Richard Parsons. He encouraged Jonelle to “embrace
her possibility” and assume the helm of the Apollo.
“He believed in me before I believed in myself,” she
remembers.
She Embraced Possibilities
by Rodeena Stephens
Apollo Theater Foundation President and Chief
Executive Officer Jonelle Procope began her career as
a researcher and reporter for Newsweek. However, after
three years, she realized that a career in journalism
was “not the right path.” Jonelle decided to go back to
school to pursue a law degree, a decision she is convinced
“changed the course of my life.”
To pay it forward, Jonelle invests time in mentoring.
“I think mentoring is an extremely important part of
realizing one’s potential for professional growth,” she
says, acknowledging that women often have a difficult
time embracing their own possibility so “I try and make
myself accessible to young women on their way up.”
This led to a successful career in entertainment law and
media-related corporate affairs and management — and
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Jonelle takes pride in the mentoring opportunities offered
at the Apollo, such as the young patrons program and
annual “Dining with the Divas” luncheon, which offers
the chance to connect with accomplished, influential
women. She says, “Young women have to be proactive
about reaching out to other women or men with whom
they want a relationship.”
Richard Parsons
presenter
Jonelle’s professional efforts outside the Apollo don’t
end with her mentoring relationships. She sits on the
boards of several other nonprofits, including New York
Public Radio, the Arthur Ashe Learning Center and the
125th Street Business Improvement District. She is also a
member of the NYC Landmarks50 Advisory Committee.
In her personal life, Jonelle boasts that her greatest
achievement is “being the mother of my two adult sons,
Matthew and Evan. They are both fine young men
and have good hearts.” Jonelle is also grateful for the
inspiration she finds in her female friends, a group of
dynamic and supportive women. “They are all achievers,
doing interesting things in their own unique ways,” she
explains.
Richard Parsons has known Jonelle Procope for 15
years. He recruited her to serve on the Apollo Theater
Foundation’s board in 1999 and then persuaded Jonelle
to take on her current role in 2003. Today, Richard serves
as Chairman of the Apollo Theater Foundation as well
as the Jazz Foundation of America, while also serving as
Chairman Emeritus of the Partnership for New York City
and on the boards of Teach for America, the Museum of
Modern Art and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Other sources of inspiration are further from home
– Malala Yousafzai, the young 16-year-old Pakistani
activist, and Pope Francis – “folks who are truly and
authentically philanthropic,” points out Jonelle.
With a busy career and a wide network of family and
friends, Jonelle emphasizes the need for balance. “One of
the beauties of getting older is that I’m able to choose my
path . . . I choose balance.” In that pursuit, when asked
what she considers an ideal Sunday, Jonelle replies: “A
Sunday with absolutely no plans! A leisurely morning,
reading the paper, exercise and maybe a movie, brunch
with friends and cooking.”
He is also currently a Senior Advisor at Providence Equity
Partners, Inc., a leading private equity investment firm
specializing in media, communications and information
companies. He is the former Chairman of the Board of
Citigroup, Inc., and was the Chairman of the Board and
CEO of Time Warner Inc.
Before joining Time Warner in 1995, Richard was Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer of Dime Bancorp, Inc., one of
the nation’s largest thrift institutions. Previously, he was
the Managing Partner of Patterson, Belknap, Webb and
Tyler, a New York law firm. Prior to that, he held various
positions in state and federal government, as counsel for
Nelson Rockefeller and as a senior White House aide under
President Gerald Ford.
Rodeena Stephens is Director of Communications at The
Greater Allen Cathedral of New York and an adjunct professor
at Westchester Community College.
In 2008, he served as a member of then President-Elect
Barack Obama’s Economic Transition Team. More
recently, he served as a member of the President’s Council
on Jobs and Competitiveness. He is currently Chairman of
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s New NY Education Reform
Commission.
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McGraw Hill Financial
is delighted
to join in celebrating the
New York Women in Communications
2014 Matrix Award Recipients
We Salute You All !
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Matrix hall of fame
2013
2006
1998
1990
1980
Joanna Coles
Anne Finucane
Mindy Grossman
Bonnie Hammer
Jacki Kelley
Audra McDonald
Kara Swisher
Jill Abramson
Candace Bushnell
Beth Comstock
Geena Davis
Ellen Degeneres*
Joan Hamburg
Cynthia Leive
Renetta McCann
Katherine Oliver
Pilar Crespi
Anthea Disney
Phyllis McGrady
Bette Midler
Sally Minard
Janet Robinson
Rochelle Udell
Tina Brown
Marian Burros
Phyllis E. Grann
Michelle H. Jordan
Louise McNamee
Lynn Sherr
Franchellie Cadwell
Suzanne Garment
Frances Fitz Gerald
Barbara Hunter
Pamela Hill
Ruth Whitney
1989
1979
Kim Armstrong
Gail Collins
Nancy Evans
Frances Friedman
Ellen Levine
Betty Rollin
Betty Furness
Marcia Ann Gillespie
Joan Lipton
Elaine R. Pitts
Harriet Rabb
Barbara Tuchman
Barbara Yuncker
2012
Tyra Banks
Gayle Butler
Glenn Close
Maria Cuomo Cole
Ann Curry
Laura Desmond
Zenia Mucha
Peggy Noonan
2005
Christiane Amanpour
Nina DeSesa
Linda Fairstein
Edie Falco
Amy Gross
Wenda Harris Millard
Charlotte Otto
Marjorie Scardino
2011
2004
Cindi Berger
Gwen Ifill
Robin Koval
Idina Menzel
Abbe Raven
Sheryl Sandberg
Gina Sanders
Betty White
Alix M. Freedman
Ann Fudge
Susan Peterson Kennedy
Nell Merlino
Martha Nelson
Bernadette Peters
Debra Shriver
Paula Zahn
2010
2003
Susan Chira
Sheryl Crow
Tina Fey
Ina Garten
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Anne Keating
Gayle King
Marissa Mayer
Christy A. Ferer*
Gretchen C. Morgenson
Sheila Nevins
Maurie Perl
Carolyn K. Reidy
Jane Rosenthal
Daisy Expósito-Ulla
Kate White
2009
2002
Campbell Brown
Leslee Dart
Monica Langley
Dany Levy
S. Epatha Merkerson
Sherrie Rollins Westin
Linda Sawyer
Linda Wells
Carole Black
Peggy Conlon
Eve Ensler
Madeline de Vries
Kati Marton
Helen Thomas
Meg Whitman
Anna Wintour
2008
2001
Joannie C. Danielides
Diane von Furstenberg*
Susan Gianinno
Linda Greenhouse
Ruth Reichl
Robin Roberts
Anna Deavere Smith
Anne Sweeney
Andrea Alstrup
Judy Corman
Jane Friedman
Joanne Lipman
Judy McGrath
Valerie Salembier
Lois Smith
Pamela Thomas-Graham
2007
2000
Cindy Adams
Lisa Caputo
Joan Didion
Pamela Fiori
Thelma Golden
Susan Lyne
Arianna Huffington
Meredith Vieira
Candice Carpenter
Ranny Cooper
Patricia Cornwell
Patricia D. Fili-Krushel
Katharine Graham
Judith Jamison
Ann Jackson
Linda Kaplan Thaler
1999
1997
Red Burns
Nora Ephron
Anne Sutherland Fuchs
Betty Hudson
Laura Landro
Esther R. Newberg
Rosie O’Donnell
Mary Lou Quinlan
1996
Charlotte Beers
Whoopi Goldberg
Geraldine Laybourne
Liz Smith
Martha Stewart
Amy Tan
Patrice Tanaka
1995
Shelly Lazarus
Carolyn Lee
Patricia Matson
Toni Morrison
Cokie Roberts
Elizabeth Tilberis
1994
Gail Blanke
Maureen Dowd
Sarah Frank
Mary Ellen Mark
Ann S. Moore
Naomi Wolf
Ruth A. Wooden
1993
Jean L. Farinelli
Paula Forman
Jacqueline McCord Leo
Penny Marshall
Terry McMillan
Lesley Stahl
Alessandra Stanley
1992
Sylvia Chase
Fredrica S. Friedman
Lou Rena Hammond
Callie Khourie
Elizabeth Valk Long
Aileen Mehle
Helayne Spivak
1991
Penny Hawkey
Karen Elliott House
Annie Leibovitz
Joan Lunden
Grace Mirabella
Lynn Nesbit
Terrie Williams
Katie Couric
Esther Dyson
Joyce Hergenhan
Dorothy Kalins
Debbie A. Krenek
Linda Srere
Meryl Streep
Nan Talese
1988
Myrna Blyth
Carolyn Carter
Marilyn Laurie
Anna Quindlen
Carolyn Wall
Genevieve Young
1987
Margaret Booth
Jane Pauley
Elaine S. Reiss
Beverly Stephen
Susan L. Taylor
Wendy Weil
1986
Dorothea M. Brooks
Meredith Fernstrom
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Kate Rand Lloyd
Marcella Rosen
Alice Walker
1985
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Laurel Cutler
Helen Gurley Brown
Eleanor Lambert
Flora Lewis
Mary Alice Williams
1984
Susan Brownmiller
Tamara K. Homer
Judy Lynn Prince
Enid Nemy
Patricia Ryan
Diane Sawyer
1983
Maya Angelou
Kay Koplovitz
Patricia Martin
Mary McGrory
Jane Bryant Quinn
Charlotte Kelly Veal
1978
Rena R. Bartos
Jane E. Brody
Patricia Carbine
Dr. Dorothy Gregg
Barbara Seaman
Barbara Walters
1977
Ann Berk
Beatrice Buckler
Gloria Emerson
Muriel Fox
Ada Louise Huxtable
Nadeen Peterson
1976
Gay Pauley
Sylvia Porter
Lynn Povich
Marlene Sanders
Jean Schoonover
June Thursh
1975
Madeline Amgott
Aileen Corbett
Elizabeth Janeway
Charlotte Klein
Judy Klemesrud
Geraldine Rhoads
Shirley Polykoff
1974
Shana Alexander
Charlotte Curtis
Susanne Loeb
Joan Murray
Rita Sands
1973
Jo Foxworth
Sondra Gorney
Lucy Jarvis
Eileen Shanahan
Gail Sheehy
1982
1972
Karen W. Arenson
Cathleen P. Black
Caroline R. Jones
Joyce Carol Oates
Jeannette E. Paladino
Kay J. Wight
Mary Andrews Ayres
Marylin Bender
Pat Coffin
Melba Toliver
1981
Letitia Baldrige
Judith Daniels
Beth Fallon
Pegeen Fitzgerald
Jane Brown Maas
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
1971
Gloria Steinem
Theo Wilson
*Special Award
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SCHOLARSHIP SUPPORT MAKES A DIFFERENCE
Compiled by Linda Levi
The New York Women in Communications Foundation, a 501c3 and the non-profit arm of New York
Women in Communications, Inc., has been supporting young women formally since 2000. Awards offer
financial support and may result in great internship opportunities,* but they do so much more. They
create a sisterhood that helps recipients succeed, lead and learn the importance of giving back. Below is
a quick peek at where just a few of our past scholarship recipients are now.
Katie Corrado
Reporter & Weekend Anchor, NBC3/CBS5 Syracuse, NY
Lauren Gould**
Senior Account Executive, Kaplow Communications
Rima Abdelkader
Associate Producer, “Real Money with Ali Velshi,”
Al Jazeera America
Tammy Tibbetts**
Founder & President, She’s the First
Lisa DiGuglielmo Pisano
Creator & Editorial Director, mom a la mode & President,
Groupe a la Mode; Communications Board Member,
Contemporary Club of Ho-Ho-Kus; Youth Minister
and Story Hour Coordinator
Emellie O’Brien
Co-Founder, Earth Angel Sustainable Production
Services & Eco Manager, Columbia Pictures
Jamie Primeau
Editorial Assistant, Choices Magazine
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Marie Dugo**
Marketing Coordinator, NBCUniversal Owned TV Stations
Chelsea Orcutt
Head of Outreach, Thunderclap
Meredith Engel
Going Out & Travel Editor, Metro Newspapers
Vesna Jaksic
Media Relations Manager, Physicians for Human Rights
Denise Horn
Associate, Policy Communications Team, Facebook
Queen Muse
Web Content Writer, NBC10 Philadelphia
Camille D’Elia
Director/Editor, The Philippines Project
Selena Shen
Chair of Board of Trustees
SAFER, Students Active for Ending Rape
*Past scholarship winners have landed internships at many great organizations, including CNN, “Late Night
with Jimmy Fallon,” “Watch What Happens Live,” “Today Show,” MSNBC, MTV 360 Productions, “The Chew,”
Thirteen/WNET, The Daily News and the Executive Chamber of Governor Andrew Cuomo, to cite just a few.
**Served as a New York Women in Communications Foundation Board Member.
You can ensure future scholarship support by making a secure online
tax-deductible donation at www.nywici.org/foundation/support-us.
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6.25”
Announcing
The WiCi’s
Honoring Rising Stars in Communications
The WiCi’s celebrate the career achievements of the rising stars
in communications.
The 2013 WiCi Award Honorees were Kendra Bracken-Ferguson, Deborah Brenner,
Sara Haines, Rachael Haot, Dustee Tucker Jenkins, Abbey Klaassen, Kass Lazerow,
Lauren Bush Lauren, Maria Cristina Marrero, and Jenna Wortham.
Nominate a woman who...
•Represents the next generation of communications leaders
•Has made significant contributions to her company and industry
•Is admired by peers and employees
In partnership with
•Embodies the values of New York Women in Communications
•Is actively involved in the communications industry
Nominations due Friday, June 27, 2014.
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For more information, go to www.nywici.org
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Sponsored Scholarships
Since its formal establishment in 2000, the New York Women in Communications
Foundation, a 501c3, has awarded over $1 million in support to high school
seniors, college undergraduates or graduate school students pursuing educations
and careers in communications. In addition to the general support distributed
through the Foundation, the following sponsored scholarships are also currently
awarded.
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The Loreen Arbus Scholarship from the Loreen Arbus Foundation
is awarded to a student with a disability or whose work in media addresses issues
related to a disability. It is a new award in 2014 and the first of its kind for the New
York Women in Communications Foundation.
The Carlozzi Family Scholarship was created in 2008 through a
private family foundation. Catherine Carlozzi, who has served on the boards of New
York Women in Communications, Inc. and the New York Women in Communications
Foundation, formerly chaired the Foundation’s Scholarship Committee. This
scholarship is awarded to an undergraduate who is an accomplished writer.
Condé Nast established the Ruth Whitney Scholarship from Glamour in 2004 to honor the
legendary Editor-in-Chief who steered Glamour for more than 30 years. Ruth, who died
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in 1999, was a 1995 Matrix Award recipient. The scholarship is for an undergraduate
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interest in magazine journalism or publishing. It includes an opportunity to spend a
week with the magazine’s editorial team.
The Esperanza Scholarship is awarded to a student of Hispanic
heritage pursuing the dream of a career in communications.
The Hearst Scholarship is awarded to a college sophomore, junior or senior
with a demonstrated commitment to a career in magazine media (editorial or sales) or
digital media. The student who wins is considered to be someone who will follow in
the footsteps of editors, publishers and executives who helped build Hearst into the
magazine content giant it is today.
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IPG, the holding company for many well-known PR and advertising brands, including
McCann Erickson, FCB, Deutsch, Gotham, Weber Shandwick and GolinHarris,
has offered two scholarships and summer internships since 2005. The Interpublic
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Group Scholarships are awarded to ethnically diverse students who have
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demonstrated interest in careers in advertising or public relations.
The McGraw Hill Scholarship is awarded to a student
interested in a career in corporate communications or public relations.
The Meredith Corporation Scholarship is awarded to a student
who has demonstrated a commitment to a career in publishing (print, digital
and/or marketing) and who has completed the sophomore year in college.
This award includes a summer internship in the company’s Communications
Department, working on corporate and editorial CSR programs for college credit.
The New York Women in Communications Alumna Award
of Excellence is awarded to a previous scholarship winner dedicated to
strengthening NYWICI and has shown outstanding growth as a student since
she first became a scholarship recipient. The award was created in 2008 by
past scholarship winners with funds raised through the annual Ladies Who
Laugh comedy night fundraiser.
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Scholastic’s Judy Corman Memorial Scholarship,
and its companion internship, is awarded to a student interested in
communications and media relations. It was created nine years ago in memory
of Scholastic’s Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications who died in
2004. As the company’s head of media relations, Judy helped make Harry Potter a household
name in America. She received a Matrix Award in 2001.
The Charlotte Kelly Veal Scholarship, inaugurated this year, is
in honor of former Matrix honoree and beloved NYWICI member Charlotte
Kelly Veal. It supports a student pursuing a career in public relations.
To make a secure, online gift in support of the New York Women in
Communications Foundation, go to www.nywici.org/foundation/support-us.
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Congratulations to the 2014 New York Women in Communications Foundation Scholarship Recipients.
We are honored to be “making you up” for this year’s Matrix Awards.
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2014 Scholarship recipientS
The “Class of 2014” represents a very diverse group of young women who no doubt one day will be industry
leaders teaching us all “how it’s done.” The “Class of 2014” features three high school students, one graduate
school student and 13 college students. They are:
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Stephanie Agresti
KarYee Au
Gina DeCagna
The College of New Jersey
City College of New York
University of Pennsylvania
Molly Gamache
Nicole Godreau
Katelyn Gultieri
Waterbury Arts Magnet School
Ithaca College
Ithaca College
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Scholarshiship
Intern
Lauren Hard
Bridget Jackson
Alanna McCatty
Columbia University Graduate
School of Journalism
SUNY Oswego
Pace University
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Amanda Morris
Alexandra Osten
Vanessa Powell
Farmington High School
Pace University
Hofstra University
Brooke Sassman
Sovanndary Sok
Elisa Tang
Rutgers University
Sackets Harbor Central School
Hofstra University
Alumna Aw
of EXCELLENard
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Opal Vadhan
Melissa Vargas
Pace University
Pace University
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Scholarship Winner Hall of Fame
2013
2010
2007
2003
Claudia Balthazar
Julia Corbett
Amanda Kontor
Kendal Lambert
Amanda Livingston
Arielle Martinez
Sonya Mattis
Vivian Nunez
Ann Panousopoulos
Marisch Perera
Blaire Pistoia
Emily-Anne Rigal
Ayden Rosenberg
Lauren Ryan
Brooke Sassman
Ashley Schwartz
Opal Vadham
Camden Weber
Stephanie Aaron
Katie Corrado
Shira Engel
Amanda Ferrarotto
Natifia Gaines
Samantha Gordon
Stephanie Guzmán
Megan Hess
Denise Horn
Amelia Jiménez
Diana Lau
Emellie O’Brien
Chelsea Orcutt
Amanda Quick
Tess Quinlan
Taylor Trudon
Eva Werk
Jie Jenny Zhou
Oulimata Ba
Kristin Bradley
Christen Brandt
Aimee Campbell
Samantha Davis
Kaitlyn Dreyling
Marie Dugo
Meredith Engel
Ya-Hsuan Huang
Kimberly Laughman
Noelle McKenzie
Jennifer Pelly
Elizabeth Pelly
Jessica Prince
Selena Shen
Chelsea Theis
Emily Warne
Rima Abdelkader
Candice Crystal
Arlette Daluz
Maria Graves
Daphra Holder
Allison Kapner
Kimberly Last
Stephanie Riesenman
Priya Shah
2012
Alexandra Carmichael
Katia Diaz
Laura Foti
Luisa Garcia
Grace Gavilanes
Melanie Hicken
Nkechi Hooper
Sarah Kajani
Elisa Mala
Marian Omidiji
Marisch Perera
Jamie Primeau
Tess Quinlan
Lauren Ryan
Ilyssa Simsek
Nkiruka Umegbolu
Miriam Ward
Jenny Xie
2011
Jacqueline Bryk
Alexandria Clarke
Katherine Corrado
Camille D’Elia
Shira Engel
Amanda Ferrarotto
Luisa Garcia
Stephanie Guzmán
Mariama Keita
Zoe King
Camille McMorrow
Ivellisse Morales
Queen Muse
Cherrelle Nicholson
Eunic Ortiz
Natasha Spedalle
Anna Sussman
Miriam Ward
2006
Lindsay Adler
Gina Aflalo
Samantha Davis
Sheena Fisher
Lauren Horn
Colleen Huysman
Nancy Lan
Kimberly Last
Joanika Leblanc
Ana Liss
Lauren Little
Kaitlyn Moore
Olivia Ner
Irene Razon
Alexis Taylor
Tammy Tibbetts
Jamie Tomczuk
Elizabeth VanDurme
2009
Marie Dugo
Nina Marie Elias
Sara Spruch Feiner
Emily Freisher
Maggie Groves
Kristen Joerger
Rachel Johnson
Carol Kuruvilla
Kayla LeGoff
Sydney Lowe
Miki Onwudinjo
Chelsea Orcutt
Kelli Plasket
Charlotte Schaefer
Elizabeth Stoltz
Kaitlin Tambuscio
Taylor Trudon
2005
Rima Abdelkader
Larae Booker
Sharon Clott
Lisa DiGuglielmo
Jennifer L. Elliott
Denise Horn
Elana Jacobs
Lauren Mack
Beatriz Melendez
Ilana Plen
Lavina Ramchandani
Tammy Tibbetts
Beth Young
Anne Youngquist
Laura Zirinsky
2008
Aisha Al-Muslim
Cailin Barrett-Bressack
Katie Corrado
Marie Dugo
Vanessa Garcia
Katerina Gkionis
Najlah Hicks
Cristin Johnson
Sabira Lakhani
Francesca Larson
Cate Mahoney
Michele Meshover
Samantha Neugebauer
Jennifer Pelly
Kelli Plasket
Dana Rivera
Jennifer Rizzi
Stefania Sainato
Sarah Stapperfenne
Natalie Tolle
Jestine Ware
Whitney Young
2004
Genevieve Byrd
Kristen Carter
Lauren Gould
Nellie Hsu
Sherice Hughey
Cady Johnson
Miriam Kriegel
Joanika Leblanc
Meredith Levin
Denise Martinez
Christy-Ann Waterman
2002
Jessica Fiore
Tanya Gingerich
Jodi Gold
Rachel Grijalvo
Bianca Janosevic
Erin Monteiro
Jade Scipioni
Marianne Tabar
2001
Kafi Brown
Julia Cotton
Sharon Ehm
Irina Finerman
Aya Karpinska
Mary Ruth Kasprzyk
Christine Kontrafouris
Jennifer McCoy
Amy Peddycord
Lauren Punaro
Margaret Williams
2000
Christina Berchini
Suzanne Copsey
Lenora Pi-Lan Chu
Sharon Ehm
Sedona Fitzgerald
Maya Gorton
Ysanne Harper
Hedi Hong
Vesna Jaksic
Rachelle Jones
Sara Leeder
Stacey Patton
Kristen Telker
1999
Camille Clarke
Charlyn Zlotnick
1998
Kristen DeGroot
Christine Haughney
Lori Moffett
Cynthia Patson
LaTisha Robinson
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We look forward to
seeing you next year at
the Matrix Awards Luncheon
Monday, April 27, 2015
Hosted by
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