The YWCA of Princeton is set to recognize women from Mercerville, Princeton and West Windsor at its 30th Tribute to Women awards dinner March 7.
Ten women who embody the YWCA’s mission of eliminating racism and empowering women will be honored.
West Windsor resident and executive vice president at Wells Fargo, Brenda Ross-Dulan is the honorary chair of the Tribute to Women awards.
Ross-Dulan is also the president of Wells Fargo’s South Jersey region. She oversees more than 150 branches and and $12 billion deposits.
She has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Blacks in Corporate America and as an Executive Making a Difference by the Los Angeles Times.
Also of West Windsor, Debby D’Arrcangelo, is receiving the Fannie E. Floyd Radical Justice Award at the event.
D’Arrcangelo is the president and CEO of Mercer County’s Planned Parenthood Association and a former board member. Prior to her position at Planned Parenthood she was a Vice President at J.P. Morgan & Co.
She is a trustee at YWCA Trenton, Harvard Club at Princeton, Trenton Public Education Foundation, Princeton Area Community Foundation, Phillips Exeter Academy, and the Chapin School.
The YWCA Princeton is awarding D’Arrcangelo for her commitment to racial and social justice and her long tradition of community service.
Honorees are nominated by colleagues and peers in the workplace each fall. A selection committee evaluates all the nominees on criteria, such as professional responsibility and contributions, community service, leadership, academic achievement and commitment to the YWCA’s mission.
Five 2013 honorees reside in Mercer County.
Tanuja Dehne of Princeton is the a senior vice president at NRH Energy. She has secured more than $500,000 for local charities dedicated to children in need in urban communities.
She is on the board of HomeFront and Young Audiences Art for Learning and supports Dress for Success.
NJBIZ awarded Dehne one of the Best 50 Women Business.
Also a Princeton resident, Rose Nini is the founder of Sage Works Consulting and serves on the board of directors at Womanspace.
Nini is a dean at Mercer County Community College and played a large role in the building of its conference center.
She has served as governor to the New Jersey Women’s Business Advisory Council, Banking Commission and White House Business Conference.
Community activist, Linda Mills Sipprelle, is a Princeton resident. She is a former runner, one time holding 17 U.S. track and road running records.
Sipprelle has worked as a U.S. State Department office and has been assigned to embassies in Rome, Mexico City, Vienna and Washington D.C. She served as president of Princeton University’s Friends of Davis International Center for two years.
Currently, she is an English tutor and member of the Princeton Borough Affordable Housing Board.
Mercerville resident Kelly Rouba works for the New Jersey Division of Developmental Disabilities. She wrote Juvenile Arthritis: The Ultimate Teen Guide and has a second book releasing in the spring.
Rouba works with FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security on emergency preparedness for the special needs population.
She serves several non-profit organizations including Mercer County Arthritis Walk, Trenton’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Susan G. Komen Central Jersey Affiliate.
West Windsor resident Cheryl Rowe-Rendleman is principal consultant and CEO of Omar Consulting Group, LLC, a medical/pharmaceutical consulting company.
She founded the Women in Science mentoring initiative and the Graduate Women in Science and Engineering Group at Princeton University.
As a Girl Scout troop leader, Rowe-Rendleman secured a robotics grant enabling several troops to develop science, analytical and leadership skills. The troops participated in the robotics world Championship.
The Tribute to Women award dinner is scheduled to begin 5:15 p.m. with cocktails at the Hyatt Regency Princeton. Dinner and the program start at 6:15 p.m.
Tickets are $135 and are available online. Proceeds benefit the YWCA.
More information is online at ywcaprinceton.org/tributetowomen.
