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The Iowa Women's Foundation (IWF) presents its 19th Annual Awards Luncheon program. The Luncheon is a highlight in IWF's calendar, bringing together supporters from across the state to celebrate achievements and focus on the most pressing issues facing women and girls in Iowa.

This year's event features a keynote presentation by Marie C. Wilson. An advocate of women's leadership for more than 30 years, Wilson is founder and President of The White House Project, creator of Take Our Daughters to Work Day and author of Closing the Leadership Gap: Why Women Can and Must Help Run the World (Viking 2004). In 1998, Wilson founded The White House Project in order to build a richly diverse, genuinely representative democracy.

Before she took the helm at The White House Project, Wilson was, for nearly two decades, the President of the Ms. Foundation for Women. She is an honorary 'founding mother' of the Ms. Foundation. In honor of her work, the Ms. Foundation has created The Marie C. Wilson Leadership Fund.

Over the last thirty years, Wilson's accomplishments span becoming the first woman elected to the Des Moines City Council as a member-at-large in 1983, co-authoring the critically acclaimed Mother Daughter Revolution (1993, Bantam Books), and serving as an official government delegate to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing, China in 1995. Wilson has been profiled in The New York Times 'Public Lives' column, and has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, CNN, National Public Radio and other national programs.

The mission of the Iowa Women's Foundation is to improve the lives of Iowa women and girls through the power of philanthropy, advocacy and collaboration. For more information, please visit their website at iawf.org.