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