Three North Shore women recently received recognition at the 34th annual YWCA Women of Distinction Awards on May 29: Two North Vancouver women, Nancy Olewiler and Catherine Roome, and one West Vancouver woman, Wendy Lisogar-Cocchia.
More than 1,400 guests and volunteers gathered at the Vancouver Convention Centre for the event, which honours inspiring women and organizations for their achievements.
Nancy Olewiler won in the Education, Training and Development category, and Catherine Roome won in the Public Service category.
Roome is president and CEO of B.C. Safety Authority. Olewiler was the first female professor to join Queen’s University’s economics department and later the first to receive tenure. She remains the first and only female chairperson of SFU’s economics department and created the field of environmental economics at two Canadian universities. She is also the founding director of SFU’s School of Public Policy.
Lisogar-Cocchia won in the Community Champion category for co-founding the Pacific Autism Family Network. In 2002 she won in the Entrepreneurship & Innovation category.
This story was modifed to fix incorrect information. The original story noted Wendy Lisogar-Cocchia won two awards this year, but her Entrepreneurship & Innovation award was from 2002.
