LSU Women’s Center hosts 6th annual Esprit de Femme Awards
March 2018
The LSU Women’s Center will honor Women’s History Month on Friday, March 16th, at its sixth annual Esprit de Femme Awards Sunrise Celebration. This year’s awards ceremony will be held at L’Auberge Casino Hotel in Baton Rouge, beginning at 8:00am with a networking coffee and jewelry pull hosted by event sponsor, Kendra Scott. All proceeds from the Sunrise Celebration will support the mission and initiatives of the Women’s Center.
Established in 2009, the Esprit de Femme award is an annual acknowledgement of a person who has made exceptional efforts toward the advancement of women in Louisiana. This award honors individuals who elevate the status of women in the community through their contributions to the arts, education, healthcare, business and industry, charity, and civic engagement.
This year also marks the third year that the Esprit de Femme Student Leadership Award will be given. This award will honor and recognize LSU students who exemplify the ideals and principles of the Esprit de Femme award. Esprit de Femme Student Award recipients will receive financial support to further their academic pursuits. The award recipients will be selected in February and will be recognized at the Sunrise Celebration.
“We are excited about all of our honorees and look forward to the opportunity to recognize their phenomenal contributions at the sixth Annual Esprit de Femme Awards Sunrise Celebration,” said Summer Steib, LSU Women’s Center director. “These women and our male honoree have made lasting impacts on the lives of countless women in our state and blazed trails for other women. Our 2018 honorees represent diverse backgrounds and accomplishment—our honorees are leaders and trail-blazers in government, the arts, the business sector, nonprofits, academics, and civic engagement.”
The 2018 Espirit de Femme honorees are:
Kris Cangelosi, Founder, Cangelosi Dance Project
Dr. Carolyn Carter Collins, Associate Vice Chancellor and Dean Emeritus, LSU
Beth Courtney, President and CEO, Louisiana Public Broadcasting
Ava Dejoie, Executive Director, Louisiana Workforce Commission
Dawn Harris, President and CEO, Campus Federal Credit Union
Gerri Hobdy, Director of Community Relations, BRCC
Dr. Tina Holland, President, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University
Sylvia Weatherspoon, Anchor, WBRZ
Micah Fincher, President, STAR’s New Orleans Regional Council
This article was adapted from a press release by LSU Women’s Center’s Summer Steib. For the original article, as well as more information about Espirit de Femme, please visit, http://www.lsu.edu/diversity/womens_center/esprit_de_femme/2018pr.pdf.