Friday, January 21, 2022
Noon-1:00 pm (Video link available at 11:30 am)
Please join NCJW Dallas for our 109th Birthday Luncheon. For over a century, NCJW Dallas has served the Greater Dallas community. With your support, we continue Building Brighter Futures.
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER: DEBORAH COPAKEN
Deborah Copaken is the New York Times bestselling author of several books, including Shutterbabe, The Red Book, and Between Here and April, among others. A contributing writer at The Atlantic, she was also a TV writer on the Golden Globe-nominated Emily in Paris, a performer (The Moth, etc.), and an Emmy Award–winning news producer and photojournalist. Her photographs have appeared in Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times.
Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Financial Times, Observer, The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, Slate, O, the Oprah Magazine, and Paris Match, among others. Her column “When Cupid Is a Prying Journalist” was adapted for the Modern Love streaming series.
Her seventh book, Ladyparts, a memoir of bodily destruction and resurrection during marital rupture, was released by Random House on August 3rd and is available anywhere you buy books. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.
2022 PIONEERING PARTNER AWARD
The Pioneering Partner Award is presented annually to an individual or organization that has made major contributions to the Dallas community that are consistent with NCJW’s mission and initiatives. We are proud to announce this year’s recipient is Mary Pat Higgins, President and CEO of the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum.
| Ms. Higgins has served as President and CEO of the museum since 2013. According to Harvard Business School Club of Dallas, Ms. Higgins “has a national reputation for being an innovative, strategic and passionate leader in the nonprofit sector.” During her tenure, Ms. Higgins oversaw both a physical and thematic expansion of the Holocaust Museum. She led a successful capital campaign and designed and built a new facility that expands the study of the Holocaust and includes a broader perspective on Human Rights with the theme of Upstanders as a core concept. |
Her leadership of the museum and its focus on social justice principals aligns with NCJW’s mission to strive for social justice by safeguarding individual rights and freedoms. We are honored she has accepted the 2022 Pioneering Partner Award and look forward to presenting it to her at the 109th Birthday Luncheon on January 21, 2022.
LUNCHEON COMMITTEE
HONORARY CHAIRS
Sara and Gary Ahr
Carolyn and Ken Barth
LUNCHEON CHAIR
Liz Gluckman
HOST COMMITTEE
Elaine Bernstein, Phyllis Bernstein, Brenda Brand, Joni Cohan, Caren Edelstein, Helen Frank, Kathy Freeman, Debbie Greene, Suzi Greenman, Renee Karp, Julie Lowenberg, Staci Mankoff, Kim Schonwald, Beth Stromberg, Robin Zweig