Honorees

[The honorees' complete remarks are available online]

Ruth J. Abram

Ruth J. Abram is an activist and historian who has been a pioneer
in uncovering and interpreting the stories of urban immigrant families, like the
ones whose daughters worked in the Triangle Waist Factory. In 1988, she
co-founded the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York, hoping that the
public would “consider the question: How will we be one nation and at the same
time enjoy, appreciate and certainly not be afraid of the profound differences we
bring to the table based on background?” Over the past 20 years, the Museum
has restored the apartments of six families who lived at 97 Orchard Street.

[Remarks by Ruth J. Abram]

Kate Frucher

Kate Frucher is an attorney turned entrepreneur whose work spans the business and non-profit sectors. She started her career in the White House Office of National Service where she helped create the AmeriCorps National Service Program. Later, she co-founded Link Research and helped launch Stand for Children. As a Skadden Fellow, she founded the Family Court Education Project. After 9/11, she spearheaded terrorism-preparedness efforts as Senior Aide to the NYC Fire Commissioner and became a Senior Fellow in the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Now in the world of early-stage companies, she served as General Manager at Axiom Legal and is an executive at ideeli.

[Remarks by Kate Frucher]

Lynn Sherr

Lynn Sherr is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning news correspondent
who has specialized in covering women’s issues and social change in a distinguished
career with ABC NEWS. She is co-author of Susan B. Anthony Slept Here: A Guide
to American Women’s Landmarks among numerous other books. She is currently
a Contributing Editor at More magazine, writing posts for “The Daily Beast” and
PBS’ “Worldfocus,” and serving as a frequent guest co-host of PRI’s The Takeaway
on morning radio. As she recalled in her memoir, “I’ve not only covered the feminist
movement; I’ve been part of it, stepping into jobs that didn’t exist until I got there.”

[Remarks by Lynn Sherr]

The 2011 Jewish Women's Archive Luncheon Board and Committee

Honorary Event Chairs

Barbara B. Dobkin

Michele Rosen

Prudence L. Steiner

Nicki Newman Tanner [Welcome by Nicki Tanner]

Benefit Event Committee

Ann F. Lewis, Chair

Joyce Antler

Sue Bricker Dorn

Gloria Feldt

Ann Kirschner

Anne H. Meyer

Michele Rosen

Susan L. Schlechter

Marian Scheuer Sofaer

Prudence L. Steiner

Nancy Schwartz Sternoff

Nicki Newman Tanner

Diane Wohl

JWA Board of Directors

Prudence L. Steiner, Chair

Barbara B. Dobkin, Founding Chair

Gail Twersky Reimer, Founding Executive Director

Joyce Antler

Olivia Cohen-Cutler

Sue Bricker Dorn

Gloria Feldt

Roz Garber

Felicia D. Herman

Carol M. Joseph

Valerie Joseph

Morlie Hammer Levin

Karen Secunda Levy

Ann F. Lewis

Anne H. Meyer

Linda K. Morse

Sarah Perry

Susan Augenblick Raskin

Michele Rosen

Barbara Ellison Rosenblit

Marian Scheuer Sofaer

Nancy Schwartz Sternoff

Nicki Newman Tanner

Diane Wohl

Rose Zoltek-Jick