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Penn E&R Sponsors 22nd Annual SWEP Touchstone Award Reception

Posted November 21, 2018 By Ashley Csaszar

Nearly 200 people turned out to the Touchstone Award Reception on November 8 at the Phoenixville Foundry and Heritage Center.

For the second consecutive year, Penn E&R sponsored the Society of Women Environmental Professionals (SWEP) of Greater Philadelphia’s Annual Touchstone Award Reception.  Nearly 200 professionals turned out for the event held at the historic Phoenixville Foundry and Heritage Center in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.

Ms. Lynn Williams was this year’s Touchstone Award recipient.

Each year, the Touchstone Award honors a woman who sets a standard for quality and excellence in the environmental field and is distinguished by her professional commitment, leadership and achievement.  Recipients are chosen from all areas of environmental practice including government, private industry and non-profit sectors, according to the organization’s website.  Ms. Lynn Williams, a champion environmental and civic leader who works for a non-profit watershed conservancy in Wilmington, Delaware, was this year’s Touchstone Award recipient.  In her acceptance speech, Ms. Williams recounted the 50 years she has spent protecting Delaware’s land and water as well as her efforts to educate and inspire others.

Known as the Renaissance woman of Phoenixville, Ms. Barbara Cohen served as keynote speaker at the event.  In her address, Ms. Cohen explained her role in the borough’s redevelopment, including how she has led the charge to restore and repurpose the foundry building, originally built in 1882.  Ms. Cohen still serves as a tour guide at the foundry and educates the public about the building and borough’s rich history.

SWEP Greater Philadelphia also awarded three academic scholarships and one grant during the ceremony.

SWEP Greater Philadelphia also awarded three scholarships and one grant during the ceremony.  As part of its mission to encourage and promote leadership, achievement and the professional development of women in the environmental field, the organization presented graduate scholarships to three women studying to pursue environmental careers—Adrienne Donaghue, Katie Lample, and Elena Rohner.  The Darby Creek Valley Association was chosen to receive the grant, which helps fund organizations or programs that creatively enhance, restore or protect the environment or that provide environmental awareness through educational sessions with a particular emphasis on encouraging girls and women in the sciences, engineering or environmental fields.

The theme for the 22nd annual Touchstone Award Reception was “Solid as Steel: Women as Keystone Contributors to Our Fields.”

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