2023 IWOC Celebration
2023 International Women of Courage Award Winners
2023 Honorary Committee Members
Andrea Mitchell
Honorary Committee Chair Chief Washington Correspondent and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Anchor, Host and Commentator,
NBC News
Lisa Cagnolatti
Senior Vice President, Customer Service, Southern California Edison
Heather Caruso
Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion UCLA Anderson School of Management
Jennifer Meagher
Convery Group President Griffith Foods North America
Hahn Dao
Vice President, National Accounts, Capital Group
Janet Elliott
President/CEO International Citizen Diplomacy of
Los Angeles
Annette Flanagin
Executive Managing Editor and Vice President JAMA and JAMA Network
KhinSandi Lwin
Former Representative United Nation’s Children’s
Fund (UNICEF)
Oleksandra Matviichuk
Human Rights Lawyer and Chair, Center for Civil Liberties, Ukraine 2022 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Jerilyn Castillo McAniff
Managing Director, Head of Diversity & Inclusion
Oaktree Capital
Kimberly Myers, Ph.D.
Principal, Government and Public Services, Deloitte
Jane E. Russell
Producer Herzog and Company Entertainment
Rachel Scott
Senior Congressional Correspondent, ABC News
Major General Suzanne Puanani Vares-Lum
(Retired, USA)
President, East-West Center
Ambassador Melanne Verveer
First U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues Founding Director of the Georgetown Institute for Women Peace and Security
2023 Sponsors
2023 IWOC Patrons
Thank you to our generous Patrons for the 2023 International Women of Courage Celebration
Bridges of Understanding
Anonymous
Carol Ann Warren
Impactful Interaction
Dr. Robert & Martha May Kim
Anonymous
Empowerment through Education
Nancy McAniff Annick
Denise Bieker
Jerilyn Castillo McAniff
Susan Chandler
Sarah Deschenes
Ingrid Johnson
Cynthy Moffatt
Margaret Heflin Sabbag
Janice Meagher Trojan
Jane Mursener Wetzel
Jonathan and Lindsay Wetzel
Chace Wetzel-Keating
Diversity and Inclusion
Khin-Onma Lwin
Julie Pantiskas
Eunice Reddick
Ann Sunshine
Gretchen K. Zelek
Women for Others
Sidney Barney
Ann Dierderich
Sarah C. Dessault
Lynn Hatashita-Yung
Annette Madden
Diane M. McGlinchey
Laura Li Pollard
Beth Price
Barbara Rubio
Inez Parker Sharp
Pamela Hillings Tegtmeyer
Mary Urquhart
Awareness and Appreciation
Jennifer Annick and Geoff Kelsch
Holly L. Clearman
Earlie B. Douglas
Judith Jakaitis
Carol L. Lewis
Donna L. Pinkney
Maria Emmi Schory
Jo Ann Troha