Some of the most recent award winners include:

Merit Award Winners

Betty Cook Award
(Formerly Isabel Benham Award)

2022

Martina Cheung

President

S&P Global Ratings

2021 

 2022

Charlotte Laurent Ottoman

Executive Director

Thirty Percent Coalition

2021

 Lori Beer

Global Chief Information Officer

Christina Lowrey 

CEO

Girl Rising

 JPMorgan Chase & Co.  
   
   

2019
Ellen R. Alemany

Chairwoman and CEO of CIT Group





2018

Anne Ackerley
Managing Director, Head of U.S. & Canada Defined Contribution, BlackRock






2017

Suni Harford, Managing Director,
Regional Head of Markets,
North America, Citi

 
2016

Shelley O'Connor,
Co-Head of Wealth Management,
Morgan Stanley


2015

Debra Walton,
Chief Content Officer, Financial & Risk,
Thomson Reuters


2014

Beth E. Mooney,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
Keycorp

2019
Maura K.Cunningham

Founder and Executive Director  
Rock The Street, Wall Street




2018

Eve Ellis
Financial Advisor, Portfolio Manager of the Parity Portfolio and The Diversity & Inclusion Portfolio
The Matterhorn Group at Morgan Stanley
In Support of Girls Who Invest


2017
Ruth DeGolia,
Co-Founder and Executive Director,
Mercado Global



2016

Ana Oliveira,
President and CEO of the New York Women's Foundation



2015

Reshma Saujani,
Founder and CEO,
Girls Who Code



2014
Erin Ganju,
Co-Founder and CEO,
Room to Read