The Women's Media Center announces that Pat Mitchell, President & CEO of The Paley Center for Media & Founding Co-Chair of The Women's Media Center, will receive the first Women's Media Center Lifetime Achievement Award

Award Will Be Named in Mitchell's Honor to Recognize her Commitment to Using Media to Improve the Lives of Women and Girls At The 2012 Women's Media Awards on November 13 in New York City

Jane Fonda, The Women's Media Center Co-Founder & Two-Time Academy Award® Winner, to present award to Pat Mitchell

NEW YORK, Aug. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Women's Media Center announced this morning that The 2012 Women's Media Awards will honor Multiple Emmy® & Peabody Award Winner Pat Mitchell, President & CEO of The Paley Center for Media & Founding Co-Chair of The Women's Media Center, with The Women's Media Center's first annual Lifetime Achievement Award.

Two-time Academy® Award-winning actress/humanitarian/activist & The Women's Media Center co-founder Jane Fonda will present the Award to Pat Mitchell at The 2012 Women's Media Awards on Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at Guastavino's in New York City. Going forward, this award will be given annually as the Pat Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award.

The Women's Media Awards recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to advancing women's and girls' visibility and power in media.

"This recognition is especially meaningful to me, given The Women's Media Center's advocacy for more equitable and accurate representation of women in media," says Pat Mitchell, "and I am especially honored to know that future generations of women will also be recognized for their work to advance women and girls through the power of media."

"We are deeply proud to honor Pat Mitchell with the first annual Women's Media Center Lifetime Achievement Award—and to establish that Award permanently in her name," says Robin Morgan, Co-Founder of The Women's Media Center. "A media virtuoso, Pat harmonizes great skills, talent, wit, wisdom, energy, standards of excellence, and principled insistence that women's voices be heard. Her achievements awe, but she makes the impossible look easy. The newly minted Women's Media Center Pat Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award thus also expresses our faith in all she will yet accomplish." 

"I am beyond honored to be presenting the first annual Women's Media Center Lifetime Achievement Award to Pat Mitchell. She has been the connector, the spark plug, and the strategist behind more important women's events and forums than seems possible for one tiny woman," observes Jane Fonda, Co-Founder of The Women's Media Center.

"Pat is that most rare of leaders, one who is trusted by the decision makers as they now exist, and also by the future decision makers hoping to expand what exists," said Gloria Steinem, Co-Founder of The Women's Media Center. "Because she herself has been inside every kind of media, her expertise and ideas are trusted. Because of her own character and kindness, her judgment is trusted. She creates bridges between excellence and new ideas, between what is and what could be. There is no force on earth more powerful than trust -- and Pat personifies it." says Gloria Steinem.

The 2012 Women's Media Awards are co-chaired by Loreen Arbus, Donna Deitch, Jodie Evans, Jane Fonda, Carol Jenkins, Robin Morgan & Gloria Steinem.

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SOURCE The Paley Center for Media