Anne Rebecca Elliott, M.Div. Ph.D.
Executive Director
Greenhope: Services for Women
Is Inducted into the
Academy Of Women Achievers of the YWCA
NEW YORK, NY -- Anne R. Elliott, Executive Director of Greenhope (PGH),
has been inducted in the prestigious Academy of Women Achievers of the YWCA of
the City of New York. Dr. Elliott and other incoming members of the Academy were
honored at the YWCA's 29th annual Salute to Women Achievers Luncheon held at
the New York Marriott Hotel.
The Academy was founded 29 years ago to recognize successful, high achieving women
and the organizations that made their advancement possible. It places the members
in the ranks of the nation's most important female executives. More than 1,300
people, including CEO's and senior executives representing some 200 major businesses,
government, non-profit agencies and labor unions attended the luncheon on November
21st.
An advocate of programs for women, children and their
families for over 15 years, Dr. Elliott brings a strong
sense of commitment and dedication to Greenhope.
Dr. Elliott began her career as a teacher in Kenya, East
Africa.
Elliott is actively involved in local and nationwide
advocacy efforts that address the burgeoning problems of
the criminal justice system and the exponential increase
of women in prison. Since joining PGH, Elliot has raised
more than $ 8 million for a new PGH residential treatment
center in East Harlem. One of the first of it’s kind
in New York City and slated to break ground in 2004, it
will house both women and children.
A native of Durham, North Carolina, Dr. Elliott
is an ordained elder of the African Methodist Episcopal
Church and served as Minister to Women for five years at
Bridge Street AME Church in Brooklyn, NY. After graduating
from Davidson College, she received a doctorate degree
from Union Theological Seminary in New York.
She is currently working on her book: African American
Women’s Understandings of the Spirit: A Black Womanist
Pneumatology.
Contact: Angela E. Spears/The Spears
Rochester Group Tel: 917 855 1121
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