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1 2024 honorees and sponsors. 2 Honoree Julie Bridenstine of the Chatham County Board of Education and Diego Riveros-Iregui. 3 Chapel Hill Toffee’s Karen Graves with Chatham Magazine’s Melissa Crane. 4 Chatham County Commissioner Karen Howard, Business Brewing’s Jean MacDonald, Cindy Royal with Edward Jones and Intrepid Build’s Claire Coffey.
2024 women of achievement luncheon Photography by JOHN MICHAEL SIMPSON
Chatham Magazine, Chapel Hill Magazine and Durham Magazine hosted the annual Women of Achievement Luncheon at The Carolina Inn on May 31. The event celebrates the outstanding female community leaders featured in our publications. Attendees enjoyed networking and mimosas followed by lunch and dessert catered by Crossroads Chapel Hill. Keynote speaker Ashleigh Shelby Rosette, the James L. Vincent Professor of Leadership at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, utilized her research on the intersection of leadership, gender and race to guide an enlightening discussion on how stereotypes and bias affect present-day organizations. Triangle Media Partners’ Lauren Godwin, Melissa Crane and Lucinda Poole recognized the
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