{"id":134015,"date":"2024-06-11T14:43:38","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T19:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/?p=134015"},"modified":"2024-06-11T14:43:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T19:43:38","slug":"six-uwm-alumnae-chosen-as-women-of-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/six-uwm-alumnae-chosen-as-women-of-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"Six 51ÁÔÆæ alumnae chosen as Women of Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Six alumnae of UW-Milwaukee have been chosen by the Milwaukee Business Journal as winners of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/milwaukee\/women-of-influence\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2024 Women of Influence Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The award honors business and community leaders in the Milwaukee metropolitan area who are making the region a better place to live and work. The 30 honorees this year were chosen from 175 nominations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/milwaukee\/women-of-influence#Brandhub-Honorees\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">51ÁÔÆæ alums honored are<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Helen Boomsma, executive director of the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center.<\/li>\n<li>Lakshmy Nair, president of Tri City National Bank.<\/li>\n<li>Lora Strigens, vice president for planning and facilities management at Marquette University.<\/li>\n<li>Julie Ellenbecker-Lipsky, president and senior wealth adviser at Ellenbecker Investment Group.<\/li>\n<li>Patricia Contreras, vice president of community impact at Rockwell Automation.<\/li>\n<li>Stephanie Hacker, executive director of the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/freiburger-honored-as-part-of-business-journals-women-of-influence\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Also chosen for a Women of Influence honor<\/a> was Tina Freiburger, dean of the College of Community Engagement and Professions at 51ÁÔÆæ.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The winners were honored in a special section in the Business Journal\u2019s June 7 issue and at an awards event last week at the Baird Center in downtown Milwaukee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six alumnae of UW-Milwaukee have been chosen by the Milwaukee Business Journal as winners of the 2024 Women of Influence Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[174,200],"tags":[],"section":[125,122],"display_categories":[352,116],"related-coverage":[],"uwmnews-feed":[167],"class_list":["post-134015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-news-in-brief","section-alumni","section-campus-community","display_categories-top-story-tertiary","display_categories-top-story-section","uwmnews-feed-alumni-association"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Six 51ÁÔÆæ alumnae chosen as Women of Influence<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Six alumnae of UW-Milwaukee have been chosen by the Milwaukee Business Journal as winners of the 2024 Women of Influence Awards.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/six-uwm-alumnae-chosen-as-women-of-influence\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Six 51ÁÔÆæ alumnae chosen as Women of Influence\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Six alumnae of UW-Milwaukee have been chosen by the Milwaukee Business Journal as winners of the 2024 Women of Influence Awards.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/six-uwm-alumnae-chosen-as-women-of-influence\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"51ÁÔÆæ REPORT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-06-11T19:43:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"John G. 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