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player ready...The women recognized last week as leaders by the YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago spoke of nourishment for children’s spirits, the efficiency of businesswomen and contrasts between privilege and oppression.
Jacqueline Triche Atkins, executive director of Museums in the Park, described having seen “the eyes of a thousand small faces” light up with the dawning of creativity and understanding. She draws pride and inspiration from those memories, she said as she accepted the organization’s achievement award for arts and culture.
Penny Pritzker, accepting the business achievement award, joked that while in meetings with a roomful of men, she sometimes wishes everyone there was a woman because “the meeting would be over in 5 minutes, predominantly because all of us have 15 other things we have to accomplish.” Pritzker’s titles include president of Pritzker Realty Group and founder and chairman of Classic Residence by Hyatt.
Khem Nuth, lead organizer for the Coalition of African, Asian, European and Latino Immigrants of Illinois, received the award given to a promising leader. In her acceptance speech, she described her first visit at age 18 to Cambodia, whose killing fields her parents had fled a generation earlier.
Gail Smith, founder and executive director of Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers, and Hermene Hartman, president and chief executive officer of Hartman Publishing Inc., whose flagship publication is N’DIGO, also won leader awards at the Thursday luncheon at the Chicago Regency Hyatt.
Each honoree in some way reflected the YWCA’s core issues: child care, economic empowerment for women and support for victims of sexual violence.
The organization has 13 locations in the metropolitan area.
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