Since The Great Women Portrait Project launched on International Women's Day 2023, dozens of companies and individuals have chosen to honour, in portrait, history's 'hidden' Great Women, including:
SPONSORS & CORPORATE PARTICIPANTS:
Mary Lou Landry - Sponsor (Marine Pioneer portrait collection)
Lorna MacMillan, CEO, Parkwood Home Care - Sponsor (Florence Nightingale)
Lockheed Martin Canada
Sanofi Pharmaceuticals:
Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
Women in Nuclear (Canada)
MDW Law
Bloom Wealth
Ontario Power Generation
GE Hitachi
Sask Power
Westinghouse
NRCan
Bruce Power
NB Power
National Science and Engineering Research Council
Nuclear Waste Management Organization
CNA
CNL
Hydro Quebec
INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPANTS:
Frances 'Poppy' Northcutt, NASA mission control pioneer/engineer
Dr. Alice Aiken, Vice President, Research and Innovation, Dalhousie University
Dr. Joy Armson, Prof Emeritus, Faculty of Health Dalhousie University
Elissa Barnard, Arts Columnist
Catherine Blewett, Secretary of the Treasury Board of Canada, and
former Federal Deputy Minister of Economic Development & Innovation
Susan Bradfield
Susan Brissette, Founder & Principal Consultant, Wild Matriarch Inc.
Dr. Margaret Casey, community leader, Order of Canada recipient
Martha Casey, Co-CEO, International Institute for Sustainable Development
Julia Ying Napier Chiasson, Citadel High student, project inspiration
Lori Clark, CEO New Brunswick Power
Elizabeth Clarke, Board of Directors, Sunset Community
Rachnna Clavero, CEO, CANDU Owners Group
Shelley Clow, community leader
Carrie Cussons, President/CEO, Events East Group
NS Supreme Court judge Christine Doucet
Christine Hanson, CEO, diplomat, international lawyer
Anna Hounsell, Exec. Director, Bloom Wealth & Legacy Planning
Laura Kanaan, partner, MDW Law
Dr. Katharina Kieser, Gynecologic Oncologist, Nova Scotia Gynecologic Cancer Site Team Lead
Dr. Joanne Langley, Professor, Pediatrics, Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University
Mary Lukeman, Retired Registered Nurse
Nancy MacCready-Williams, CEO, Doctors Nova Scotia
Ellen MacIntyre, Software Engineering Manager, Lockheed Martin Canada
Dr. Jane McKay-Nesbitt, Chair, Women's Advisory Committee of Halifax
Lisa McBride, President, Women in Nuclear Canada
Kim McCrea, Communications Consultant
Leslie Manship, founding partner, Excellence NB Association
Kim Milan, artist/scientist
Tara Miller, K.C, partner, MDW Law
Crystal Murray, Editor In Chief, Saltscapes Magazine
Jo Napier, Creator, Great Women Portrait Project
Sara Napier, CEO, United Way Halifax
Johanna Nesbitt, Branch Manager at CUA
Cynthia Pilichos, coordinator, Anglican Church Women Board, Diocese of Nova Scotia & Prince Edward Island
Maureen Reid, President, BoardWorks Consulting Inc.
Rev. Dr. Helen Ryding
Michele Sherman, Retired Regional Managing Partner - Atlantic Canada at Grant Thornton
Tracy Stuart, Olympian and Co-Owner Caldera Distilling Inc.
Laurie Swami, President and CEO, Nuclear Waste Management Organization
Alex van der Valk, Graduate Student, University of Waterloo
Rumina Velshi, former President and CEO, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
Angela Walker, K.C., partner, MDW Law
GPS pioneer/mathematician Gladys West
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Portrait (background):
Alexander Graham Bell on shoulder of wife, muse and business partner Mabel Hubbard Bell, the first woman to run an aviation company. (Oil on canvas, property of The Royal Bank of Canada, National Art Collection)
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