Women and community leaders filled the Ambassador Banquet and Conference Center celebrating the Athena awards and 25 years of Athena initiatives in Erie.
It’s a milestone celebration for former banking officer Linda Stevenson who had the foresight to bring Athena to Erie.”What’s amazing is to see so many powerful women reaching out and helping our emerging women leaders. It’s just special that we’re paying attention to women and helping women be leaders that we should be.”
Other Athena leaders say Stevenson has been a champion since day one helping to support, develop and honor women leaders. Colleen Moore Mezler said, “She’s done it through the PowerLink program which provides a quasi board of directors to a woman business owner and over 60 people have gone through that program.”…