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Welcome to Washington State
Business and Professional Women. Business and Professional Women/USA was founded in 1919
and promotes equity for all women.
Washington State Business and Professional Women (BPW/WA)
is a member of BPW/USA and BPW/WA Foundation. Founded in 1921, BPW/WA is a
multi-generational, bipartisan membership organization located in communities throughout
Washington. Our members, partners, and supporters are committed to our on-going mission:
To achieve equity for all women in the workplace through advocacy, education,
information and to promote economic self-sufficiency for Washington working women.
We help women achieve professional and personal goals
through programs, workshops, networking, and friendship. All is achieved through monthly
meetings and other sponsored activities. Each Washington BPW local organization creates
its own unique agenda, but all have the same objectives. BPW/WA builds powerful women
through personal and professional development and increased political and social
awareness. Washington working women and men from communities large and small are
members of Washington BPW.
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 Bellevue's
BPW Woman
of the Year
Estrella
Chan (left), president of Bellevue Business Professional Women (BPW) sends us
this announcement.
In celebration of National Business Women's Week, BPW
honored Sonya Green (right) as Woman of the Year 2011 on October 19th at the
Harbor Club in Bellevue.
Green is the News & Public Affairs Director at
KBCS 91.3 FM, and producer of Emmy award winning television shows. She empowers people
by teaching them to tell their stories and be their own advocates.
BPW (Business Professional Women) is a non-profit,
non-partisan organization founded in 1919, one year before women got the rights to vote
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