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MEMBER COMMUNIQUÉ The 2015 Women in Leadership event took place Feb. 11
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with a sold-out audience at the Silverleaf Club in Scottsdale.
2015 Women in Leadership highlights women and empowerment More than 120 attended the Third Annual Women in Leadership event, held Feb. 11, at the Silverleaf Club in Scottsdale. Presented by APS, with additional sponsorship by Cox Communications, Scottsdale Community College, Merestone and Encore Creative, Women in Leadership focuses on topics, stakeholders and policy-makers that help women manage work/life balance while excelling in the professional world. Tina Marie Tentori, director of community affairs for APS and executive director of the APS Foundation, introduced the 2015 Women in Leadership keynote speakers, sisters Flora and Ruby Jessop. Speaking to a sold-out audience, Flora Jessop described her childhood
in Colorado City, Arizona, where she was raised in a polygamous family of two mothers and 27 siblings as part of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. When she was 16 years old, after years of sexual and physical abuse, she fled her family and faith. Jessop moved to Phoenix, where she met her partner, Tim, and created a family unit with him and their daughters, Shauna and Megan. In April 2001, Jessop’s younger sister Ruby was forced to marry her stepbrother, according to Jessop. This incident would be the catalyst that would propel Jessop WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP — CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
Message from the CEO Spring has sprung, and with the beauty of the season comes an astounding array of events and activities that help show Scottsdale to the world, much of which is still covered with snow. No other part of the country can boast the world’s largest-attended golf tournament and a Super Bowl — all on the same weekend! Corporate and private aircraft, collectively worth billions of dollars, came into our city for one of the nation’s great annual parties, and Scottsdale did not disappoint. Scottsdale Airport, one of the nation’s busiest single-runway airports, saw 1,200 takeoffs and landings without a single delay during Rick Kidder
Super Bowl week. The tournament was superb and the Super Bowl (for once) was even a great game, riddled with controversial play-calling and surprises. Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction broke all records with its $130 million in sales and in its charitable donations that included $140,000 for cancer research at the nonprofit Translational Genomics Research Institute. All that horsepower then shifted at WestWorld to horses as Scottsdale Arabian Show took over the newly enclosed Tony Nelssen Equidome. Born in 1955, the Scottsdale Arabian Show is the largest in the nation, and a place where people part with millions of dollars for the most beautiful and elegant horses on earth. But wait, there’s more, as they say on infomercials! Spring
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