BP MARKOWITZ, DEPUTY BP CHAPMAN TO CELEBRATE WOMEN'S "HERSTORY" AT BROOKLYN BOROUGH HALL
Annual event, held in conjunction with Women's History Month, honors contributions of
8:30 A.M. - 10:30 A.M.
THURSDAY, MARCH 8
BROOKLYN BOROUGH HALL
BETWEEN COURT AND
DOWNTOWN
On Thursday, March 8, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and Deputy Borough President Sandra Chapman will host the 2012 Women's Herstory Induction Ceremony and Reception at Brooklyn Borough Hall. The event honors women in
This year's honorees:
- The Lucy Burns Activist Award (named for the Brooklynite who helped spearhead the suffrage movement) will go to Simmi Malhotra Degnemark, director of the Carroll Park Kids' Concert Series
- Juanita N. Holmes, inspector of the 81st Precinct of the NYPD, will receive the Shirley Chisholm Leadership Award, named for the Brooklynite who was the first black woman to win a seat in Congress and run for President of the
- The Emily Roebling Stewardship Award, named for the woman who served as one of the chief engineers for the construction of the
- Carol Cymbala, director of the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir, is the recipient of the Betty Smith Arts Award, named for the author of the classic novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- The Lady Deborah Moody Founders Award, named for the woman who founded Gravesend and became the only woman to found a permanent settlement in early colonial
- Antonia Clemente, co-founder and executive director of The Healing Center, will be awarded the Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Humanitarian Award, named for the first black woman to be licensed as a doctor in the state of