YWCA Spokane Is Proud To Announce The Recipients Of The 2019 Women of Achievement Awards

To be awarded a YWCA Women of Achievement Award, a woman must embody YWCA Spokane’s mission of eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all. Selected honorees demonstrate leadership through their professional work or service and give generously of themselves to make Spokane a better place for all to live.

  The 2019 Women of Achievement Award Honorees:

• Ginger Ewing, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Terrain Spokane – Arts & Culture
• Carla Cicero, President and CEO, Numerica Credit Union – Business & Industry
• Freda Gandy, Executive Director, MLK Community Outreach Center – Carl Maxey Racial & Social Justice
• Susan Ashe, Executive Director, Health Science & Services Authority (HSSA) of Spokane – Community Enhancement 
• Ann Ciasullo, Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies and English Department Chair, Gonzaga University – Education
• Traci Ponto, Officer, Spokane Police Department – Government and Public Service
• Anne McClain, Astronaut, NASA – Science, Technology & Environment
• Celestina Barbosa-Leiker, Associate Professor, Washington State University College of Nursing – Science, Technology & Environment
• Christine Dugger, Spokane Valley Youth Voice – Young Woman of Achievement
• Marion Moos, Spokane’s “mother of feminism” – Lifetime Achievement