2012 VOICESCOURAGEAWARDSOF

WOM E N’S R E F U GE E C OM MIS S ION

PROTECTING & EMPOWERING DISPLACED ADOLESCENT GIRLS

CONGRATULATIONS

AND THANK YOU!

TO SARAH COSTA,

FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP

TO OLGA CANTARERO

AND

RIM TEKIE SOLOMON,

FOR YOUR COURAGE AND DETERMINATION

TO MY WONDERFUL FRIENDS,

SUPPORTERS OF THE WORK OF

THE WOMEN’S REFUGEE COMMISSION

Dina Dublon

WelcomeLiv Ullmann, Honorary Chair

RemarksSarah Costa, Executive Director

Video“Protecting and Empowering Displaced Adolescent Girls”

HonoreeOlga Cantarero

Presented by Maria Hinojosa

RemarksJocelyn Cunningham, Board Co-chair

Luncheon ServiceRemarks

Robin Fray Carey, Board Co-chair

“Nzamuye Amashimwe” (“I Raise My Thanks”)Sandra Uwiringiyi’mana & Adele Kibasumba

HonoreeRim Tekie Solomon

Presented by Sakena Yacoobi

Video“A Tribute to Dina Dublon”

Presented by Jeffrey C. Walker

HonoreeDina Dublon

Presented by Indra Nooyi

Closing

Voices of Courage Awards LuncheonFriday, May 4, 2012

It gives us great pleasure to welcome you to the Women’s Refugee Commission’s 2012 Voices of Courage Awards Luncheon.

Today we gather to honor and celebrate three extraordinary women who work with great passion and purpose to improve the lives of displaced women and girls. They are courageous leaders in their communities, and they are leveraging their unique experiences to bring hope and healing to refugees and asylum seekers around the world.

Olga Cantarero, originally from Nicaragua, works with immigrant and asylum-seeking girls in Texas, many of whom have suffered terrifying experiences during their journeys to the United States. Rim Tekie Solmon, who fled Sudan with her mother and five younger siblings, helps pregnant adolescent girls from Africa adjust to life in Israel. Dina Dublon, one of the first women leaders on Wall Street, is a passionate advocate for the advancement of women and girls and has mobilized countless people to support this cause.

The tireless efforts of these remarkable women are bringing about positive changes for displaced women and girls, and we are thrilled to honor them for their contributions.

We are also delighted that so many distinguished leaders are able to participate in our program today, including, of course, our Founding Chair, Liv Ullmann.

We’re especially excited to welcome sisters Sandra Uwiringiyi’mana and Adele Kibasumba, and we can’t wait to hear their beautiful voices today.

In addition, we are tremendously grateful for our incredible staff, board members, commissioners and volunteers: they inspire us every day with their unwavering commitment to rethinking and resolving problems.

Finally, we sincerely thank all of you—our host committee, sponsors and supporters—for your generosity and partnership. It is our hope that, through our collective efforts, the women and girls that we serve around the world will one day become remarkable leaders like those we honor onstage today.

Welcome and a Special Thank You

Sarah CostaExecutive Director

Robin Fray CareyBoard Co-Chair

Jocelyn CunninghamBoard Co-Chair

Olga Cantarero was raised to believe in the importance of helping people. But her work as a volunteer for the Red Cross was seen as subversive and, with her life at risk, she was forced to flee her native Nicaragua at age 19. For months, Olga endured a harrowing journey through Central America and Mexico at the hands of smugglers. At times she walked throughout the night with no food or water, passing the bodies of women and children who had died on the treacherous journey.

Once she reached the United States, she was forced to work seven days a week as a house maid to pay off the debt she owed her smuggler. When she was released, Olga found jobs cleaning and babysitting. She took English classes at the Refugees of Peace Program, and later became a volunteer with that organization. One thing led to another, and soon she was volunteering at two agencies that helped detained asylum seekers.

Olga currently works at the International Emergency Shelter in Los Fresnos, Texas, with 13- to 17-year-olds who faced persecution in their home countries or suffered traumas similar to those she herself faced during their journeys to the United States. The shelter helps children reunite with their families in the United States, or places them in foster care until their legal cases are finalized.

“We try to keep them focused on the future,” says Olga. “I tell them, ‘I know so many young women who were once in your shoes and who now lead successful, happy lives.’”

“I want to be the voice for women and girls in immigration detention. I want them to know that people care about them, that we are listening and that we can help them.”

HonoreeOlga Cantarero

Born in a refugee camp in Sudan to Eritrean parents, Rim Tekie Solomon moved to the capital city, Khartoum, with her family when she was still a baby. Her happy childhood was disrupted when she was 15; her family was in danger and had to leave the country immediately to avoid being deported. Rim, her five younger siblings and her mother set out on a terrifying journey. Leaving all their belongings behind, they fled first to Cairo and then crossed the Sinai Desert on foot to reach Israel.

When they arrived in Israel, they were held in a detention center for five months, under the constant watch of guards. Although there was no school, Rim was able to teach herself Hebrew by talking with the Israeli student volunteers who came to play with the children in the shelter. Soon she began translating for women and children so they could talk to the judge and explain their asylum claims.

After her family was released from the shelter, Rim graduated from high school and now works at the UN refugee agency and for the African Refugee Development Center, translating for asylum seekers. She also volunteers with Hagar & Miriam—African and Israeli Women in Friendship and Motherhood, helping young African asylum seekers who are pregnant or new mothers. Hagar & Miriam is a program of two Israeli NGOs, Topaz—Leading Social Innovations, and Brit Olam—International Volunteering and Development. Rim teaches Sudanese and Eritrean girls how to stay safe and prepare for life in Israel. “At that age [9 – 13], they don’t know what’s right and wrong,” says Rim. “The girls need to know more about the culture to be able to protect themselves.”

She is planning to apply for university next year so she can fulfill her dream to study medicine and become a pediatrician.

“Everything I learned, I learned by myself. It’s difficult not having any friends or any-body to help you. I just want to help the girls so they don’t feel alone.”

HonoreeRim Tekie Solomon

Dina Dublon is a pioneer in advancing women and promoting gender equity in both the corporate and nonprofit worlds. Born and raised in Brazil, she got her bachelor’s degree in Israel and her master’s degree at Carnegie Mellon University. She began her corporate career with Chemical Bank as a management trainee on the trading floor in 1981, rising to become the first (and to date the only) female chief financial officer and executive vice president of JPMorgan Chase in 1998.

In 2000, Dina traveled from the boardrooms of Wall Street to postwar Rwanda, participating in a 10-day trip with the Women’s Refugee Commission to talk to women and girls who had survived the genocide and were helping to rebuild their shattered country.

She came back determined to use her leadership role to advocate for refugee women’s rights. She joined World Links, a spinoff of the World Bank that helped provide programs and technology to schools in Africa. She personally funded scholarships for girls in Rwanda to attend and finish high school, some of whom are now in college. Today she is funding several secondary school students in Ghana.

Dina is currently a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and a member of the boards of directors of Microsoft, PepsiCo, Accenture and the Global Fund for Women. She is also a trustee of Carnegie Mellon University and chair emerita of the Women’s Refugee Commission.

“The ultimate responsibility for driving change is ours, as individuals,” she says. “Getting involved in issues larger than your own advancement is a right, a privilege and an obligation. It is an obligation we have for ourselves and our children.”

“Going to Rwanda after the genocide and meeting with women was so inspiring. Wherever we went, the recurring theme was ‘We’re not hopeless, we’re not help-less and we’re not just victims.’”

HonoreeDina Dublon

For 25 years, Maria Hinojosa has helped tell America’s untold stories and brought to light unsung heroes in America and abroad. In April 2010, she launched The Futuro Media Group with the mission to produce multi-platform, community-based journalism that respects and celebrates the cultural richness of the American experience. She is the first Latina to anchor a Frontline report; “Lost in Detention,” about deportation and immigration detention, aired in October 2011 and sparked public engagement and conversation from Capitol Hill to mainstream media to the Spanish language media.

Hinojosa is the anchor and executive producer of her own long-running weekly NPR show, Latino USA, and anchor of the Emmy Award-winning talk show Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One. Previously, a senior correspondent for NOW on PBS, and currently, a rotating anchor for Need to Know, she has reported hundreds of important stories—from the immigrant work camps in New Orleans after Katrina to teen girl victims of sexual harassment on the job. Hinojosa has won multiple awards, including two Emmy’s, the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Reporting on the Disadvantaged and the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Overseas Press Club for best documentary for her groundbreaking Child Brides: Stolen Lives.

Hinojosa has a weekly syndicated column for King Features/Hearst and is the author of two books including a motherhood memoir, Raising Raul: Adventures Raising Myself and My Son. She was born in Mexico City, raised in Chicago and received her B.A. from Barnard College.

“I spent this last year of my life going deep into the detention and deportation story in our country. All of humanity should know the stories of women who choose only to live a life with no fear yet oftentimes face the harshest treatment as a result.”

Award PresenterMaria Hinojosa

Indra Nooyi is Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, the largest food and beverage business in North America and the second largest worldwide, with 22 brands that generate more than $1 billion each in retail sales annually. She is the chief architect of Performance with Purpose, PepsiCo’s promise to do what’s right for the business by doing what’s right for people and the planet. Mrs. Nooyi was named President and CEO in 2006 and Chairman in 2007. She has directed the company’s global strategy for more than a decade and led its restructuring, including the divestiture of its restaurants, the acquisition of Tropicana and the merger with Quaker Oats. Prior to becoming CEO, she served as President and CFO and as SVP of Corporate Strategy and Development. Before joining PepsiCo, she spent time with Asea Brown Boveri, Motorola and The Boston Consulting Group.

Mrs. Nooyi is a member of numerous boards, including the U.S.-China Business Council, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Tsinghua University, the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum and the U.S.-India CEO Forum.

She holds degrees from Madras Christian College, the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and Yale University. Mrs. Nooyi is married with two daughters.

“The key to economic progress lies in unleashing women’s potential. Throughout much of the world, the greatest unexploited economic resource is the female half of the population. We have seen time and time again that when we give women the chance to live in a way that they value and that they choose, all of society greatly benefits.”

Award PresenterIndra Nooyi

Jeff Walker currently serves on the boards of New Profit, Berklee College of Music, theMorgan Library, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Millennium Development Goals Health Alliance, the Miller Center and University of Virginia’s Undergraduate Business School, where he was president for 10 years. Jeff is co-founder and co-chairman of The Quincy Jones Musiq Consortium, chairman of the Council of Foundations at University of Virginia, serves on the Visiting Committee at Harvard Business School and is on the advisory boards of MIT Media Lab, Blue School, the Tibetan Village Project and Ideo.org. He is president of the 15 Central Park West Board.

Previously, Jeff was executive-in-residence at Harvard Business School, focusing on social enterprises and collaboration, and a lecturer at the Kennedy School. At Harvard, he also helped to develop and launch a course in exponential fundraising for nonprofit leaders at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. He served as the chairman of Millennium Promise, with the United Nations and Columbia University, an incubator to eliminate extreme poverty, and was the long-time chairman of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation (Monticello), where he still serves as an emeritus trustee. Jeff cofounded and was chairman of Npower, an organization that provides shared technology services to nonprofits.

Jeff was CEO and co-founder of CCMP Capital, the $12 billion successor to JPMorgan Partners, JPMorgan Chase & Co’s global private equity, vice chairman of JPMorgan Chase & Co, and chairman of the JPMorgan Chase Foundation. He has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. from the University of Virginia, is a certified management accountant and a certified public accountant.

“It is clear to me that empowering and protecting the rights of women and girls is not only the right thing to do, but it also ensures a better future for everyone.”

PresenterJeffrey C. Walker

Dr. Sakena Yacoobi is executive director and founder of the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL). Established in 1996 to provide education and health services to women and children, AIL works at the grassroots level and has served more than nine million Afghans. AIL was the first organization to offer human rights and leadership training to Afghan women, as well as the first to open Women’s Learning Centers—a concept now replicated by many organizations throughout Afghanistan.

Dr. Yacoobi has received multiple awards and honors, including becoming an Ashoka Fellow and Skoll Social Entrepreneur. She has received the Henry R. Kravis Award for Leadership, the Democracy Award from the National Endowment of Democracy and the Women’s Rights Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation, as well as the Americans for UNFPA Board of Advocates Award for the Health and Dignity of Women, the 2010 Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights and the Asia Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award from the Schwab Foundation. In 2011, she was awarded the National Peace Award by Afghan President Hamid Karzai and inducted into the Enterprising Women Hall of Fame. In February 2012, Dr. Yacoobi was presented with the German Media Award.

Sakena Yacoobi has received three honorary doctorates for her distinguished contributions to society. She is a member of the board of the Global Fund for Women, serves as an advisor to the Fetzer Institute and is a member of the Women’s Learning Partnership. She is a commissioner of the Women’s Refugee Commission.

“I believe that the refugees in camps are very talented; but they are displaced and often in pain and, for the moment, need to depend on others. Because of this, it is very important that they be treated with respect, dignity and trust when responding to their needs.”

Award PresenterSakena Yacoobi

Liv Ullmann is co-founder and honorary chair of the Women’s Refugee Commission and a passionate advocate for the rights of refugee women and children worldwide. She is also Vice Chair, International, of the International Rescue Committee.

Liv was born in Japan to Norwegian parents but spent most of her childhood in Norway. Originally a stage actress, she has starred in four plays on Broadway. Her portrayal of a mute actress in Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 movie Persona brought her to the world’s attention. Her collaboration with Bergman lasted for more than 40 years, and she received two Best Actress Oscar nominations for her roles in the films The Emigrants and Face to Face.

More recently Liv has moved to the other side of the camera to a successful directing career. Her movie Faithless received international acclaim and was a contender for the Golden Palm at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. In 2009, she directed A Streetcar Named Desire, featuring Cate Blanchett in the lead role. The play ran in Sydney, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. This year she is directing Michelle Williams in an adaptation of August Strindberg’s play Miss Julie.

In addition, Liv is the author of two books, Changing and Choices, which have been printed in more than 30 languages.

“I am proud of how the Women’s Refugee Commission rallies the world to action while giving voice to the millions of women and children who have been uprooted from their homes by armed conflict.”

PresenterLiv Ullmann

Sisters Sandra Uwiringiyi’mana and Adele Kibasumba grew up in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Banyamulenge tribe they belonged to was never accepted as citizens, although they have lived in Congo for three centuries. Recognized by their language and their facial features, members of the tribe were constantly targeted. In 2004, when violence against their people increased, Sandra, Adele and their family fled to neighboring Burundi.

On the night of August 13, rebels attacked and killed 166 people; many more were left injured, with no place to go. Sandra and Adele’s family started Foundation of Hope Ministries to help the many orphans left by the massacre.

In 2007, the family resettled in the United States and restarted the ministry. Using a camera borrowed from a friend, Sandra started taking pictures of fellow survivors and recording their stories. “I wanted to let the world know that the Gatumba Genocide had happened to real people,” she says. “Photography has been part of my healing process and a way for me to fight for justice of my people.” Sandra is a junior in high school and plans to go to university to study international relations and photography. She hopes someday to work with the United Nations.

Adele is studying nursing at Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester, New York.

Sandra and Adele will sing “Nzamuye Amashimwe” (“I Raise My Thanks”), written by Foundation of Hope members.

PerformersSandra Uwiringiyi’mana and Adele Kibasumba

Sarah Costa has more than 25 years of experience in the fields of women’s rights, reproductive health, and gender and youth development, as well as global philanthropy.

Previously, Sarah was regional director of the Global Fund for Women, a grantmaking organization that supports women’s rights organizations working on economic security, health, education and leadership. She established the organization’s New York office and represented the organization in programmatic and fundraising activities on the East Coast.

From 1994 to 2006, she worked as a program officer for the Ford Foundation in Brazil and New York, developing and managing international and national programs on gender, sexuality and reproductive health, women’s rights, HIV/AIDS and health policy.

Sarah was Professor of Women’s Health at the National School of Public Health, Brazil, from 1980 to 1994. She was active in the women’s movement in Brazil, where she was a member of the Advisory Committee to the National Council on Women’s Rights, served on the boards of several women’s organizations and was a technical advisor on women’s health to the state government of Rio de Janeiro.

She currently serves on the executive committee of the board of the Association of Women’s Rights in Development and the advisory board of the National Centers on Sexuality at San Francisco State University.

Sarah earned a master’s degree in Demography from London University and a Ph.D. in Social Medicine from Oxford University.

“Our work is just one small piece of a complex global mosaic. All of us have a responsibility to create a better world for the next generation, and by investing in girls today we are investing in the women of tomorrow.”

Executive DirectorSarah Costa

MissionThe Women’s Refugee Commission identifies needs, researches solutions and advocates for change to improve the lives of crisis-affected women and children.

VisionA world in which crisis-affected women and children:• are safe, healthy and self-reliant; • are engaged in making the decisions that affect their lives; and in which• government and humanitarian practice is responsive, community-driven and builds on local

capacity.

How We WorkThrough research and fact-finding field missions, the Women’s Refugee Commission identifies critical problems that affect crisis-affected women and children, including gaps in lifesaving reproductive health care, the lack of dignified livelihoods and, in the United States, the treatment of asylum seekers. We document best practices, propose solutions and develop innovative tools to improve the way humanitarian assistance is delivered in emergency settings. On Capitol Hill, at the United Nations and with humanitarian organizations, governments and donors, we push for improvements in refugee policy and practice until measurable, long-term change is realized.

About the Women’s Refugee Commission

A Snapshot of Our Programs and ImpactPromoting Fairness in Detention and Asylum We make sure that women and children who seek asylum in the United States are treated with justice and compassion.

• When immigrant parents are detained or deported, they may lose custody of their children, sometimes permanently. Our Detention and Asylum program has developed a first-of-its-kind handbook to give detained parents the information they need to prevent this from happening.

Improving Econonomic Opportunities We work to improve economic opportunities for refugees that enable them to live in dignity and achieve economic self-reliance.

• Our livelihoods program is helping refugees in urban settings gain critical skills and training necessary to earn a living. We have developed guidance for the UN refugee agency, its nongovernmental partners and the U.S. State Department to help urban refugees build new skills and find sustainable work.

Ensuring Access to Reproductive Health We ensure that refugee women and girls have access to family planning, maternal health and other reproductive health services.

• We recently visited five refugee settings to get a better understanding of how refugees view and practice family planning. The UN refugee agency is using recommendations from our research to ensure adolescent refugees have access to age-appropriate family planning information and services in three urban and two camp settings.

Preventing Gender-Based Violence through Our Fuel and Firewood Initiative We are leading a global effort to ensure that displaced women and girls have safe access to cooking fuel, which will mitigate the risk of rape and assault during firewood collection, and reduce environmental degradation and respiratory and other illnesses caused by indoor fires.

• Thanks in large part to our efforts, the U.S. government is supporting a World Food Program initiative to provide thousands of fuel-efficient stoves for refugees in the Horn of Africa.

Empowering Displaced Out-of-School Youth We work to ensure that displaced children and youth have opportunities to learn and grow so they can contribute to their communities and will ultimately be able to support themselves and their own families.

• After talking to young women and men in 14 countries as part of a three-year research initiative, we issued guidance for helping refugee and displaced youth reach their economic potential. We also partnered with Columbia University and a host of humanitarian agencies to document the impacts of livelihood programs on children. Based on this knowledge, we have produced an innovative guidance document for protecting children in emergency livelihoods programs.

Advocating for Refugees with Disabilities We promote community inclusion of refugees with disabilities and advocate for improved services, policies and practices for this overlooked population.

• Over the past year, we have trained some 100 staff from the UN refugee agency and partner nongovernmental organizations in Uganda, India and Bangladesh on ways to include refugees with disabilities in their programs. As a result, they are now providing better protection and improved services to more than 25,000 refugees with disabilities.

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In communities around the world, it is often difficult for adolescent girls to realize their rights to education and decent work and to protect themselves from psychological and bodily harm. Many girls lack opportunities to build the self-confidence and negotiating skills they need to assert themselves and make decisions critical for their futures.

In crisis and postcrisis settings, the risks to girls’ well-being, safety and personal development are even greater as their family and peer networks often become severely fragmented. In a crisis, whether war, famine or natural disaster, lives are turned upside down. Families are uprooted or torn apart. Access to education declines. Safety and security disappear. In the midst of this chaos, displaced adolescent girls are often overlooked, neglected and vulnerable. Displaced girls ages 10-16 are more exposed to exploitation and abuse; sexual and gender-based violence; early pregnancy; forced marriage; and forced labor.

For displaced girls to be safe and to have a chance at the future they deserve, they need security and education, health care, social supports and adult mentors. And they need opportunities to develop the confidence, critical thinking and support networks to make good decisions for their lives.

What the Women’s Refugee Commission is doing

The Women’s Refugee Commission’s Protecting and Empowering Displaced Girls project illuminates and addresses the critical needs of adolescent girls in crisis settings to ensure that they stay safe and make positive changes in their lives. We are working in Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia with girls—and the groups that support them—to identify and promote ways that girls can protect themselves, access health care, complete school, develop leadership skills and be seen as a valued part of their families and communities.

The project will help displaced girls build the skills they need to protect themselves from exploitation and abuse, forced marriage, early pregnancy, physical and sexual assault and other traumas widespread in crisis settings. We learn from the girls themselves what works and what doesn’t and then we partner with local organizations to design unique projects to meet these needs.

Local partners will provide safe spaces and help displaced adolescent girls build skills through workshops, peer support networks and mentorship. The project will also engage and educate families and community leaders about the importance of protecting and empowering adolescent girls.

As a result of our work, displaced girls will learn how to live safer lives and, with the support of adults, build brighter futures.

Displaced Adolescent Girls

Take Action to Protect and Empower Displaced Adolescent GirlsElizabeth Cafferty, the Women’s Refugee Commission’s senior advocacy officer, recently visited Ethiopia. While there she wrote:

Before leaving for a Women’s Refugee Commission delegation to Ethiopia last week, I ran errands around Manhattan and couldn’t help but admire the array of gorgeous dresses in store windows. April is an exciting month for American girls: they dream about their proms and where they will attend college.

Prom dresses seem embarrassingly frivolous as I sit in a camp outside the city of Jijiga with adolescent girls as young as 10 who face hardships unimaginable to Americans. In Ethiopia, tens of thousands of Somali girls in refugee camps try desperately just to stay safe, avoid sexual assault and attend school. They face tremendous pressure to drop out of school to care for siblings, work illegally and become child brides. But as I listen to these girls, I realize that, ultimately, girls everywhere want the same things: to attend school and to live safe and fulfilling lives. It’s what every mother, aunt, sister and friend wants for the young girls in their lives.

So perhaps the dreams of refugee girls are not so different after all.

Here are three ways that you can help: 1. You can make a donation to the Women’s Refugee Commission at womensrefugeecommission.org/donate.

2. You can host an event at your workplace featuring our experts sharing stories of their work. Contact us at info@wrcommission.org.

3. You can promote the Women’s Refugee Commission on Facebook and Twitter by sharing our posts and tweets with your friends (facebook.com/wrcommission, @wrcommission).

Visit our website to learn more. www.womensrefugeecommission.org.

Voices of Courage Awards Luncheon Leadership

Co-ChairsRobin Fray CareyJocelyn Cunningham

Host CommitteeJewelle W. BickfordPamela J. CraigKathy CrostJulie DaumMichael FellerMartha GalloValarie A. GelbKiki and David GindlerChris McConnellDavid L. PhillipsRomy RiddickBradford L. SmithDavid SpearsLinda VerbaJeffrey C. WalkerDebra WaltonMarissa Wesely

Leading SponsorsDina DublonMicrosoft

Principal SponsorsPamela J. CraigDeloitteMartha GalloGlobal Fund for WomenPepsiCoSpears & Imes LLPThomson ReutersJeffrey C. Walker

Major SponsorsAccentureSteven and Connie BallmerAnn D. Borowiec, CEO, J.P. Morgan Private Wealth ManagementRobin Fray CareySarah Costa and David L. PhillipsKathy Crost Jocelyn CunninghamJulie DaumAbigail E. DisneyIna R. Drew, CIO, JPMorgan Chase & CoMimi FrankelKiki and David GindlerJ.P. Morgan Chase & Co.Clay and Garrett KirkKPMG LLPSandra H. KwonBlythe S. Masters, Head of Global Commodities, J.P. MorganPearson Foundation

Katherine RenfrewRichards Kibbe & Orbe LLPFaye RichardsonTD BankHelen Torelli and Rob SedgwickShannon Warren

PatronsKay AllaireJohanna and Laurent AlpertJane and Alan BatkinDorrit BernAnnabelle BexigaJewelle W. BickfordMitchell J. Blutt, MDLisa BrummelSteven and Joy Bunson Martin ColeColgate-Palmolive CompanyElizabeth Colton and Melvin HonowitzDavid A. CoulterPatricia CowanMary S. CrossGerard J. CunninghamElizabeth Learson DanielsAmbassador Paula J. DobrianskyJodie and John EastmanCindy and David EdelsonPeggi EinhornEve EnslerAlan H. FishmanLawton Wehle FittLiz FlynnValarie A. GelbGoldman Sachs 10,000 WomenSian Hansen

We Gratefully Acknowledge Our Supporters

Janet T. HansonSusan JonasJudith Fields JurneyJurate KazickasSusan KotcherSheila LabrecqueKate LavagninoDonald H. LaytonRuth Lazarus and Michael FeldbergRuchi MadanMarjorie MagnerMeena MansharamaniJudith Mayotte, Ph.D.Chris McConnellDonna McKayJack D. McSpadden, Jr.Virginia A. MillhiserCharles H. NoskiJane OlsonFrank OsbornTerry PeighDebra PerryRegina PeruggiSteven ReinemundJulie RichardsonSheri SandlerMarc ShapiroRony and Catherine ShimonyMargaret SmithLavinia B. SnyderJoseph G. SponholzThe Steptoe FoundationClaudia WagnerChristine WassersteinJohn C. WhiteheadKathryn Wylde

BenefactorsSheppie AbramowitzCathy AbramsRobert and Pauline BachAnnette BesharJoan BinghamStacy BrandomAndrew BrimmerRobby BrowneGlenda BurkhartFrank BurnesDawn CalabiaJulie CasesaKaren ChaplinKim ChristiansenGwen DarienShauna DenkensohnEllen DicksonTerence DoughertyJanice ElligYasmine ErgasDiane V. EshlemanJackie EsquivelMichael FellerThomas FergusonMary Flannery Ted FrancavillaSusan FulwilerJoan GambroGeorge GrandisonLeith GreensladeBarbara HackBirgitta HananBeatrice Harris, Ph.D.Susan Taylor HarrisAngelica HarterPaula HawkinsLucile Herbert

Lori HricikJames D. HutterMorrene Hubbard JacobsSusan Roth KatzkeSara KelseyBetsy Ann KovacsMara KurkaYong KwokNancy LairdAlexandra LebenthalFrancine LeFrakWinston and Bette Bao LordSusan MacEachronCharles Maikish Dr. Carolyn MakinsonDonna MathesonKelly MathiesonMary B. MoranCristina M. MorganEmily MorganLouis M. MorrellBess MorrisonAnna Msowoya-KeysRena NigamSusan PatricofDeborah RazzanoHazel ReitzStephen RohlederAngelica Zander RudenstineEdmond SanniniWilliam SchwalbeDiane SintiIndira Kajosevic SkoricIsabel SloaneMark G. SolowLeza TellamKate S. TomlinsonLloyd TrotterSandra Sennett Tully

Luis A. UbiñasBob Van DykCynthia WainwrightDebbie WelchRoger M. WidmannMarilyn L. Wilkie

FriendsJoan Almond Frank AngelloRachael BarrettSubha and Jim BarryPhilippe A. BigarDale BuscherLeigh F. ButlerKen ClinchySudanë Del ValleMarion DinoLinda D’OnofrioKristie Fischer

Mary E. Fogarty Robert Fogelson and Victoria VoytekJackson FrayPreston FraySusan Geisenheimer James and Cordelia GellyElisabeth GitterMaureen GrantCarol B. GrossmanTom HaasLisa Hamilton Susan HellerTeri KaroleAlton KastnerPriscilla F. KauffMark KaufmannErnestine KuhnAlison LankenauMrs. Wilbur A. Levin

Mr. and Mrs. Louis Martarano Judy McLendonLaura NardelliSharon T. PooleDiana QuickBonnie B. QuigleyElinor RedingtonAnne RoginBarbara B. RosinJill SchukerHildy J. SimmonsElissavet Stamatopoulou- RobbinsAnthea C. StratigosNicki Newman TannerVivien C. TartterCaroline A. WamslerDavid WeisbrodElizabeth Woodward

List as of April 23, 2012

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Women’s Refugee Commission LeadershipHonorary ChairLiv Ullmann

Board of Directors Robin Fray Carey, Co-ChairJocelyn Cunningham, Co-ChairSarah Costa, Executive Director

Thao Huu Van DoPaula J. DobrianskyMartha Gallo Kiki Ramos GindlerSian HansenAster KidaneDonna McKayTerry PeighHazel ReitzIndira Kajosevic Skoric Emily SlobohDavid SpearsHelen TorelliLinda VerbaDebra WaltonKristin WellsSamuel M. Witten

Founding Chair Catherine O’Neill

Chairs EmeritaeGlenda BurkhartDina DublonJurate Kazickas Judy MayotteKathleen Newland Regina S. Peruggi

AmbassadorMamie Gummer

CommissionersSheppie AbramowitzSusan Stark AlbertiWendy BeerBetty BigombeJoan BinghamNatasha BoissierTrish Malloch BrownLisa Opoku BusumbruDawn CalabiaKatharine I. CrostElizabeth L. DanielsJulie DaumJacqueline de CholletValentino Achak DengTerence DoughertyHelen R. DuBoisGrace DunbarJodie EastmanMaryam ElahiEve EnslerElizabeth FerrisMimi FrankelMaureen GrantBarbara HackJanet T. HansonSusan JonasElizabeth J. KeeferSarah KovnerRia KulenovicKatherine LaGuardiaRuth Lazarus Susan F. Martin

Margaret MathewsChristine A. McConnellRukshan MistryHolly E. MyersEileen O’ConnorJane OlsonCarmen O’SheaStephanie PetersMolly RaiserSusan F. RiceFaye RichardsonRomy RiddickNancy RubinDora B. SchriroJill SchukerPippa ScottPriscilla ShanksCatherine ShimonyAnne TatlockDeborah TolmanSandra Sennett TullyChris WassersteinDebbie WelchMelanie WylerSakena Yacoobi

Executive OfficeSarah Costa Executive Director

Sudanë Del ValleAssistant to the Executive Director AdvocacyJoan TimoneyDirector of Advocacy and External Relations

Elizabeth CaffertySenior Advocacy Officer

Rachael ReillySenior Advocacy Officer/ Geneva Representative

CommunicationsDiana QuickDirector of Communications

Nicole RajaniCommunications Officer

Frederick HamermanEditor/Writer

DevelopmentRachael BarrettDeputy Director, Foundation & Government Relations

Jonathan AronoffDevelopment Coordinator

Erin OglesbyEvent Coordinator

FinanceEldar KekicFinance Controller

Solange OndendeGrants Manager

ProgramsDale BuscherSenior Director for Programs

Detention and AsylumMichelle BranéDirector

Emily ButeraSenior Program Officer

Jennifer PodkulProgram Officer

Katharina ObserProgram Specialist, Advocacy

Jessica JonesEqual Justice Works Fellow

ProtectionJosh ChaffinSenior Program Officer, Economic Strengthening and Child Protection

Zehra RizviSenior Program Officer, LivelihoodsEmma PearceProgram Officer, Disabilities

Jennifer SchulteProgram Officer, Youth and Livelihoods

Dhana LamaProgram Coordinator Reproductive HealthSandra KrauseDirector

Erin PatrickSenior Program Officer,Fuel and Firewood Initiative

Jennifer SchlechtSenior Program Officer

Mihoko TanabeProgram Officer

Women’s Refugee Commission Staff

Special ThanksWe gratefully acknowledge everyone who contributed to ensuring the success of the luncheon:Our Host CommitteeOur HonoreesOur Award PresentersTina AllenWendy Beer and Credit Suisse Jacqueline CappelloAmy Elmgren

Jeannette Fleary Jennifer HartleyNora JennisonKate LavagninoSuzi ParraschIris PuertoJenny RaymondMolly Sanford

Priscilla ShanksAnita SharmaCatherine ShimonyKim StawickiAya TawffeqDeborah E. Williams

Dina Dublon tribute film credits: Film footage: AXA Equitable Financial Services, LLC; Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business; Dublon familyNarrator: Debbie IrwinPhotos: Peter Biro/IRCSpecial thanks to: Amalle Dublon; Maha Muna

Thanks to our vendors: Ashley ChapmanClifton Cloud, Star Group Productions Joel FendelmanJoe Fox, Fly on the Wall ProductionsGlobal Goods PartnersPeter Kirkel, Beehive PressJames Lester FilmsCathy McNamara and Jaclyn Schlichting, CMI Event Planning + FundraisingDeborah Mella and the staff at Cipriani 42nd StreetJames Nubile, Fly on the Wall ProductionsDon PollardGini Reticker, Fork FilmsZuno Studios

And last but not least, a special thanks to the Women’s Refugee Commission staff, interns, Board and Commissioners.

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Deloitte proudly supports the Women’s Refugee Commission and joins in honoring Olga Cantarero, Dina Dublon and Rim Tekie Soloman for their ongoing leadership and support of refugees throughout the world.

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is proud to support

the Women’s Refugee Commission

in its work to protect the rights of

refugee and displaced women, children and young people

We celebrate Dina Dublon’s

leadership, advocacy and humanity

as she receives the Voices of Courage Award

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Thank you, Dina, for all you have given to the

Women’s Refugee Commission

Martha Gallo

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life

by what we give.”

Winston Churchill

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Learning from each otherBy partnering for the common good we can achieve uncommon results. We proudly support the Women’s Refugee Commission. Congratulations to Dina Dublon.

The Lawyers of Spears & Imes LLP

Congratulate the Women’s Refugee Commission and the 2012 Honorees,

Olga Cantarero, Rim Tekie Solomon, and Dina Dublon.

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We proudly salute Dina Dublon’s commitment to the work of the Women’s Refugee

Commission and her tireless efforts promoting rights and leadership for women and girls.

Congratulations Dina Dublon A Real Voice of Courage

– Barbara and Eric Dobkin

Global Fund for Women salutes our board member, advocate and friend,

Dina Dublonfor her service to the Women’s Refugee Commission and women’s human rights.

advancing women’shuman rights since 1987

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Commission

TD Bank proudly recognizes women and their leadership, dedication and achievements.

Thank you to Dina Dublon and the Women’s Refugee Commission

for all of your good work

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Clay & Garrett Kirk congratulate the Voices of Courage Honorees

“Our lives begin & end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

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Sarah Costa for her leadership as Executive Directorand the

2012 Voices of Courage Honorees

Thank You!!

Bob DeVecchiPresident and CEO of the

International Rescue Committee1985 – 1997

for saying YESto the Women’s Refugee Commission

We honor you for recognizing the urgency of giving voice to the millions of refugee and displaced women and children around the world and, in 1989, making a home for the Women’s

Refugee Commission in the International Rescue Committee. Your passionate and dedicated support, which continues to this day, has changed the face of refugee advocacy forever.

Your friends and staff from the old days.

Congratulations Dina on your leadership and assiduous commitment to women’s rights around the world. Like everything you’ve

accomplished in your professional life, you are setting a new standard for volunteerism

and community service for the next generation.

Your many friends from JP Morgan Chase

The Pearson Foundation celebrates the

Women’s Refugee Commission for its innovative work,

and congratulates the 2012 Voices of Courage Honorees:

Dina Dublon, Olga Cantarero, Rim Tekie Solomon.

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Mom:

You’re an inspiration.

We join you in the fight for women’s rights.

Love,

Women’s Refugee Commission

KPMG is proud to support the Women’s Refugee Commission,

and we congratulate this year’s honoree, Dina Dublon for her dedication and commitment in support of

refugee women’s rights.

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Thank You for Your Support and PartnershipYour partnership enables us to advocate for laws, policies and programs to improve the lives and protect the rights of crisis-affected women and children—bringing about lasting, measurable change.

Together, we will continue to create a world in which women and children are safe, healthy and self-reliant.

We invite you to get more involved.For more information about our programs and ways to get involved, please contact Rachael Barrett, deputy director, foundation and government relations, at 212.551.3042 or RachaelBa@wrcommission.org.

To make a donation, go to: womensrefugeecommission.org/donate.

Or send via mail: Women’s Refugee Commission122 East 42nd StreetNew York, NY 10168

Microsoft is proud to support the

Women’s Refugee Commission

for taking others by the hand and

helping them achieve their full potential.

We congratulate the

2012 Voices of Courage Award recipients

Dina Dublon, Olga Cantarero and Rim Tekie Solomon

for their extraordinary courage and

commitment in protecting and empowering

displaced adolescent girls.