YWCA Leadership Luncheon Keynote Speakers 2000 – Present
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2025
Member of the Seminole nation of Oklahoma and U.S. Attorney’s Office first MMIP (Missing and Murdered Indigenous People) prosecutor for the for the Eastern District of Washington
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2024
Strategic Advisor, Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence
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2023
President, YWCA USA Board of Directors
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2022
Leading with Love. Population Health, Providence St. Mary Medical Center.
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2021
Author: Blush
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2020
Whitman College alum, former Mariposa leader, social entrepreneur
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2019
Whitman College alum, UW graduate student, former YWCA events coordinator and advocate
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2018
Photojournalist/author: Wonder Girls
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2017
Entrepreneur/former National YWCA President
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2016
TV newscaster/former Washington State First Lady
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2015
Human rights advocate/daughter of Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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2014
First woman governor of Vermont/ambassador to Switzerland
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2013
Judy Weill
Attorney/philanthropist
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2012
Barbara Bell
Engage, Educate, Empower
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2011
Kristine Van Raden & Molly Davis
Matters that Matter: Letters to Our Daughters
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2010
Paola Gianturco
Photojournalist/author: Women Who Light the Dark
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2009
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Maryland’s first woman Lt. Governor
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2008
Consuelo Catillo Kickbush
Lt. Colonel US Army (Retired)
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2007
Michelle Kennedy
Author: Without a Net
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2006
Victor Rivas Rivers
Actor/spokesperson for the National Network to End Domestic Violence
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2005
Angela Shelton
Filmmaker/writer
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2004
Jennifer James
Author/Cultural Anthropologist
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2003
Ann Rule
Author of true crime books
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2002
Myrlie Even Williams
Civil rights leader
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2001
Kerry Kennedy Cuomo
Human rights advocate
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2000
Jane Lee Wolfe
President of the World YWCA