February 23, 2023 Cheryl Paddack 2023 Cheryl Paddack, Chief Executive Officer of North Marin Community Services, is a nonprofit executive and fund development professional who has dedicated over 25 years to advancing community wellbeing. She…
November 18, 2016 Christine Bronstein 2013 Technology In December 2009, after several years as a stay-at-home mom to her step-son, son and daughter, Christine Bronstein founded A Band of Wives (www.abandofwives.com), a social network and…
November 18, 2016 Claudia Asprer 2014 Community Service Claudia Asprer has dedicated her career and life to foster children and adolescent services. She is the founder of Movin On Up, a non-profit organization that helps…
Colleen Hicks 2015 Education Colleen Hicks’ Native American lineage comes from her Cherokee paternal grandfather. He moved to Idaho from the Midwest to build a life for his family away from the…
November 22, 2016 Cornelia “Toni” Busse 2000 Health & Medicine Cornelia “Toni” Busse epitomized the terms self-help, client rights, empowerment, advocacy, risk-taker and visionary. Her fifty years of volunteer service began in her children’s elementary school.…
April 17, 2018 Cyane Dandridge 2018 Environment Cyane Dandridge is the founder and executive director of Strategic Energy Innovations (SEI), and the School of the Environmental Leadership (SEL). Throughout her 30 plus years of experience…
November 18, 2016 Daisy Maria Saez de Ibarra 2007 Community Service Daisy Maria Saez de Ibarra was a feminist before the word became a movement. One of a handful of women in the 1940s and 1950s to attend…
November 11, 2016 Deborah Ann Hubsmith 2016 Environment Deb Hubsmith, Founder of the Safe Routes to School National Partnership, was a brilliant, kind and deeply loving spirit and a passionate, hard working and effective advocate who…
November 18, 2016 Deborah Santana 2016 Environment Deborah Santana is a true Renaissance woman. To say she’s an author, business woman, wife, mother and philanthropist is to scratch the surface. Perhaps the best way to…
November 18, 2016 Denise M. Lucy, Ed.D. 2011 Dominican|Education Dr. Denise Lucy is one of Marin’s progressive educators. She has consistently demonstrated academic leadership and vision in the formation of degree programs and strategic partnerships providing unique…
November 18, 2016 Dolores “Dolly” Nave 2011 Community Service Few people affected the greater public good more than Dolores Nave, affectionately known as “Dolly.” At age twenty, Dolly was a widow with two children after her…
December 1, 2016 DONNA GARSKE 1997 Social Change Since 1974, Donna Garske has been devoted to spirited activism on behalf of women, working initially with women in the criminal justice system, and then as Executive…
