Women’s Leadership

Women’s Leadership

Celebrating and Inspiring the Young Women of Lexington Catholic with the Inaugural Women’s Leadership Event

How do you build the next generation of women leaders? You help them understand concepts and terms by showing them examples of women who have a long history of leadership, breaking barriers, bettering their communities, and mentoring others. You encourage them to find their voice. …and you throw in a live performance from a Broadway star.

The inaugural LCHS Women’s Leadership event set the stage, literally, for a leadership series that will inspire and empower the next generation of leaders. The event’s emcee, Dr. Emily Bonistall Postel, moderated a Q&A session with the special guests, drawing connections between their experiences and relating them to the lives of students in the audience.

Councilwoman Kathy Plomin helped us understand the concept of representation by discussing the Breaking the Bronze Ceiling initiative. In honoring the progress made and the progress still to come, we capture women’s impact on history. Judge Pamela Goodwine spoke of her journey to the bench, providing an inspiring example of breaking barriers and teaching us what it means to shatter the glass ceiling. LCHS alumna, Laura Bell Bundy, discussed the inspiration behind her new album Women of Tomorrow. She gave a special live performance of her song “Get it Girl, You Go!” showing us that sometimes to raise your voice, you have to use your voice.

The event brought these concepts to life, teaching us not only about the world in which we live, but about who we are and want to become. In the future we plan to engage the young women of Lexington Catholic, opening their minds to unlimited possibilities, through a Women’s Leadership Symposium. Dr. Emily Bonistall Postel says, “Future events in the leadership series should require sunglasses and sneakers because the future is bright and there’s shattered glass on the ground.” WINTER 2020 / 5