Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas to Honor Inspirational Leaders Across Generations

Grownup Honorees (left to proper): Opal Lee, Carol Goglia, Bridget Moreno Lopez, and Roland Parrish | Headshots courtesy of Gittings Pictures

Younger Girls of Distinction: Aspen Cunningham, Kaaviya Shenbaharaman, and Anushka Sridhar | Headshots courtesy of Gittings Pictures

GSNETX CEO Jennifer Bartkowski, Co-Chairs Peggy Meyer and Carmen Yung | Headshots courtesy of Gittings Pictures

The Girls of Distinction Luncheon will rejoice honorees for contributions to group

DALLAS, TEXAS, UNITED STATES, July 26, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — The Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas (GSNETX) will honor distinctive leaders, starting from achieved highschool college students to influential executives, in the course of the nineteenth annual Girls of Distinction Luncheon (WDL). The occasion, led by esteemed co-chairs Peggy Meyer and Carmen Yung, will happen on the Hilton Anatole in Dallas on Friday, November 3.

This 12 months’s honorees embrace Opal Lee, who will obtain the Lifetime Achievement Award for her vital contributions because the “Grandmother of Juneteenth”— two Girls of Distinction, Carol Goglia of Catch Up & Learn, and Bridget Moreno Lopez of Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, LLP— and one Man Sufficient to Be a Girl Scout, Roland Parrish from Parrish Eating places, Ltd.

Highschool college students Aspen Cunningham, Kaaviya Shenbaharaman, and Anushka Sridhar can be acknowledged because the Mary Anne Cree Younger Girls of Distinction, a prestigious title awarded to Gold Award Girl Scouts whose tasks made a sustainable affect on an area problem linked to nationwide or international subject. These younger honorees hail from communities throughout Northeast Texas— together with East Texas for the primary time in over a decade— and their tasks mirror the variety of Girl Scout program areas, from STEM to the outside and group service.

“The best manner to encourage is usually by means of instance. After we acknowledge exemplary members of our group who champion service and compassion, we amplify their voices,” mentioned Jennifer Bartkowski, CEO of GSNETX. “Their accomplishments function highly effective motivation for others to draw power from and comply with of their trailblazing paths.”

Funds raised in the course of the luncheon assist empower over 19,000 ladies in Northeast Texas, offering them with management improvement, psychological well being help, STEM schooling, life abilities, outside management actions, and extra. People, companies, and group organizations are invited to be taught extra and buy tickets by visiting www.gsnetx.org/WDL.

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Whether or not they need to climb to the highest of a tree or the highest of their class, lace up their boots for a hike or advocate for local weather justice, or make their first finest pals, Girl Scouts of all backgrounds and talents could be unapologetically themselves as they uncover their strengths and rise to meet new challenges. Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas serves ladies and grownup volunteers throughout 32 counties. To vary the workforce pipeline in STEM and meet the pressing want for feminine voices, engagement, and management within the fastest-growing sector of the U.S. financial system, Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas opened the STEM Middle of Excellence in 2018. The STEM Middle is a 92-acre state-of-the-art camp simply exterior of Dallas the place ladies can expertise applications in astronomy, robotics, coding, laptop science, and extra. Lately, the Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas Board of Administrators was acknowledged with Dallas Enterprise Journal’s Excellent Administrators Award and obtained the Luminary Award from SMU’s Annette Caldwell Simmons Faculty of Training and Human Growth. Study extra at gsnetx.org or name 972-349-2400.

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