Ecosave Presents
PennFuture's 2023 Celebrating Women in Conservation Awards

Tuesday, March 21st at the Fitler Club in Philly: 6-9pm

This will is a live event, including drinks & dinner (with an environmentally conscientious vegetarian menu!) 
Dinner starts at 6:30, the Awards Presentation will begin at 7:30

Each year, PennFuture honors the accomplishments of outstanding women conservationists across Pennsylvania.
The 2023 Celebrating Women in Conservation Awards will tell the stories of 11 amazing women from Southeastern PA.

Congratulations to PennFuture's 2023 Women in Conservation Honorees

• Young Woman of Conservation Leadership: Sabirah Mahmud is a Sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania studying International Relations. Currently she is working as a part-time Strategy Organizer at Philly Thrive. Founder of the Philadelphia Climate Movement.   

• Woman of the Watershed: Julie Slavet, has 40 years of experience in building organizations and serving communities. She came to Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership in 2011. A founder of Indivisible PHL, she has served as leadership for the Jenkintown Community Alliance, Montgomery County Democratic Women’s Leadership Initiative, Hiway Theatre, and Jenkintown Library. 

• Woman of the Watershed: Karen Young has devoted a career to environmental education, including the last fifteen years as executive director of the Fairmount Water Works. Karen is also a founding member of the Alliance for Watershed Education.

• Woman of Environmental Justice: Carolyn Moseley is the Executive Director of the Eastwick United Community Development Association.  Her lifetime of work in advocating for an environmental justice community was recently recognized by the City of Philadelphia with her appointment to the city's newly formed Environmental Justice Advisory Commission.
• Woman of Climate and Renewable Energy:  Upper Darby Mayor Barbarann Keffer has helped the township plant more trees in past two years than it had in decades, while helping the Tree Tenders of Upper Darby build a community nursery for native trees and shade trees. She is a supporter of River friendly garden concepts, and implemented an addition to stream waste reduction by having weekly garden and yard waste collections as part of a recycling program to limit the amount of trash being incinerated or landfilled.
• Woman of Environmental Arts: Meg Lemieur is an illustrator whose work focuses on natural and urban environments and subjects, while lending her skills to numerous environmental and racial justice issues. With artist Bri Barton, Meg created The Waterways (thewaterways.org), an enormous illustration that uses animals and a playful style to explain the many steps of fracking in Pennsylvania and the characters and communities that interact with this infrastructure. 

• Woman of Environmental Education: Jeanne Barrett Ortiz is the Senior Program, Manager Landscape Conservation, for Audubon Mid-Atlantic. She has served for over eight years as the Environmental Advisory Council (EAC) Network Coordinator, establishing numerous EAC’s across the state and was also the primary author of the original EAC Network Handbook. She is a key environmental policy and planning member of the William Penn Foundation’s Delaware River Watershed Initiative (DRWI). 

• Woman of Environmental Media, Marketing, and Communications: Jaimie Field has served as Audacy's Founding Sustainability Director for more than 13 years. Jaimie has built Audacy’s #1Thing Sustainability Initiative to share practical environmental actions, with over 200 million listeners. Each year, Audacy also grants $1m in media time to local environmental partners promoting specific organizations – such as Fairmount Park Conservancy in Philadelphia and Allegheny Cleanways in Pittsburgh. 
• Woman of Lifetime Achievement in Conservation: Carol R. Collier currently serves as a Sr. Advisor for Watershed Mgt. & Policy at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. She served for more than 15 years as executive director of the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC). Prior to that she was executive director of Pennsylvania’s 21st Century Environment Commission and regional director of the PADEP’s Southeast Region. Collier started her career with BCM Environmental Engineers, Inc. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners (FAICP) and a Certified Senior Ecologist with the Ecological Society of America. In 2004 she was a member of a nine-person U.S./China/Japan team to assist the People’s Republic of China with river basin management.

• Woman of Lifetime Achievement in Conservation: Debra Wolf Goldstein has devoted her almost 30 year career to protecting nature, conserving land, and raising environmental awareness in southeastern Pennsylvania. She served as regional advisor to the PA DCNR’s Bureau of Recreation & Conservation and as vice president of the Fairmount Park Commission for over 10 years, followed by a term as Mayor Michael Nutter’s representative on the Commission. She co-founded the Philadelphia Environmental Film Festival in 2017. As principal of Conservation Matters, LLC, she has represented dozens of land trusts, government agencies, and landowners, drafting strategic plans and legal documents enabling them to create parks, trails, and nature preserves.  
• Woman of Lifetime Achievement in Conservation: Jeanne Bonnie Van Alen recently stepped down from the position of Executive Director and President of Willistown Conservation Trust (WCT), a nonprofit land trust and conservation organization she founded over twenty-five years ago in Chester County. In addition to her conservation work at the Trust, she is also the co-founder of Delchester Group, Inc., a nonprofit organization formed to acquire and preserve critical properties by re-sale to conservation-minded buyers. Bonnie has served as a Trustee of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, the PA Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, and has served as a member of the Chairman's Council of the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association. 

Special thanks to our sponsors for their continued support.  If you would like information on being a sponsor of the 2023 Celebrating Women in Conservation Awards event, please contact Travis DiNicola at dinicola@pennfuture.org or 717-214-7924

EVENT SPONSORS

Jaimie and David Field

HONOREE AWARD SPONSORS

Special Opportunity for Small Businesses & Organizations:
Be an Honoree Award Sponsor!

 Dylan Weiss - Honoree Award Sponsor for Meg Lemieur!
 

Tracey Specter and Margie Honickman
- Honoree Award Sponsor for Jaimie Field!

-Willistown Conservation Trust
- Honoree Award Sponsor for Bonnie Van Alen

Julie Slavet & John Walber
- Honoree Award Sponsor for Julie Slavet!

Leslie Miller & Richard Worley Foundation 
- Honoree Award Sponsor for Debra Wolf Goldstein!

Eleven Six Award Sponsorships are available: one for each woman - for only $500 each. 
Name recognition (and logo placement if appropriate) on all event-related marketing and promotional collateral – recognition will be specific to the Honoree:
emails, event program and award evening, website, social media, podcasts, and blogs. Includes the individual online profiles of the honoree. Includes two tickets for the event (A $300 value)
For more information please contact Travis DiNicola at dinicola@pennfuture.org or 717-214-7924