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Lori Burkhart is the Editor in Chief of Public Utilities Fortnightly.
This past November, the Women's Council on Energy and the Environment held its annual awards in person for the first time in two years. WCEE's Woman of the Year Award honored two exceptional woman leaders, Brenda Mallory, Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality, and Gina McCarthy, former White House National Climate Director and EPA Administrator. Their Champion Award was presented to two important mentors to women in the energy and environmental fields, Energy Co-Director of the National Resource Defense Council Ralph Cavanagh, and PUF's own Executive Editor Steve Mitnick.
WCEE's newest award, the Sparks Award, was bestowed upon its inaugural class of women sparking innovation in their professions: Samantha Childress, Solutions Architect Manager of Microgrids and Distributed Energy at Schneider Electric, Jennifer Morrissey, Energy Counsel at Dentons and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Dentons Smart Cities & Connected Communities Think Tank, and Esther Wozniak, officer with The Pew Charitable Trusts international fisheries project.
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Photos courtesy of WCEE. To find out more about WCEE, visit wcee.org.
Lead image: From left, Sparks Awardees Samantha Childress, Esther Wozniak, and Jennifer Morrissey.
