2016 Foremother and Health Policy Heroes Awards Luncheon Invitation

Please join us on the Monday after Mother’s Day, at the elegant Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. as we celebrate these inspiring honorees.

Judy Woodruff is one of our nation’s foremost journalists.  Whether she is co-anchoring the PBS NewsHour or a presidential debate, we can always trust her to ask the right questions to inform and enlighten us.  She was one of the few women serving as a White House correspondent during the Carter Administration and has been in the top ranks of journalists ever since – at CBS, NBC, PBS, and CNN.  She co-founded the International Women’s Media Foundation to help mentor and encourage other female journalists to succeed worldwide.  As the mother of a son with spina bifida, she has also become a tireless advocate for people with disabilities.  Her work has improved the lives of millions of Americans.

Elaine Jones has dedicated her life to the Civil Rights Movement.  The daughter of a Pullman porter and a schoolteacher, Jones graduated from Howard University in 1965, joined the Peace Corps, and two years later was one of 5 Black students and the only woman enrolled at the University of Virginia Law School. In 1970, she rejected a prominent Wall Street firm, to take a position at the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund, where she argued many discrimination cases and represented a black man on death row who had been accused of raping a white woman.  The Supreme Court decision on that case abolished the death penalty in 37 states for 12 years. In the years since that early success, she has been an inspiring champion for fairness and equality as the first woman to serve as the President and Director-Counsel of NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund.

We hope you will take advantage of this great opportunity to meet these inspiring women and men, previous honorees, and many of D.C.’s other movers and shakers. Lunch is from noon to 1:30, preceded by a 11:30 champagne reception for honorees, patron guests, and sponsors only.