{"id":129955,"date":"2024-04-30T20:38:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T00:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=129955"},"modified":"2024-04-30T20:38:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T00:38:22","slug":"girl-scouts-of-eastern-pennsylvanias-take-the-lead-lehigh-valley-ceremony-4-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=129955","title":{"rendered":"Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania\u2019s Take the Lead Lehigh Valley Ceremony 4\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Left to Right: Co-Chair Tina Hasselbusch, Lydia C., Carmen Bell, Lindy A., Danielle M. Joseph, CEO Kim E. Fraites-Dow, Jocelynn S., Stephanie Sherry, Gelina C., Katarah A. Jordan, Co-Chair Mary E. Lisicky<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On April 23<sup>rd<\/sup>, as part of its annual Take the Lead Lehigh Valley program, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsep.org\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.gsep.org\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1714606561646000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0QuwPi-uWd4slqmTXw_i4m\">Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania<\/a>\u00a0(GSEP) honored four local\u00a0Lehigh Valley women leaders at ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks,\u00a0celebrating their commitment to exemplifying courage, confidence and character to help make the world a better place. Through this program, four Girl Scouts were matched with the honorees to learn more about how they navigate their careers as women and how they better the Lehigh Valley community in diverse ways.<\/p>\n<p>The four women leaders that were honored this year are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Carmen Bell,<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Senior Director of Healthy Aging,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley<\/li>\n<li><strong>Katarah A. Jordan,<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Chief Executive Officer, Boys &amp; Girls Club of Allentown\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Danielle Joseph,<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Executive Vice President, Diversity Councils, Lehigh Valley Chamber<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stephanie Sherry,<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Vice President, Corporate Communications, Olympus Corporation of the Americas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This Take the Lead event was transformed to represent the Girl Scout Program\u2019s Pillars of STEM, Life Skills, Outdoors, and Entrepreneurship, and the night was filled with activities, networking, and, of course, Girl Scout Cookies.\u00a0This ceremony serves as GSEP\u2019s signature fundraising event \u2013 helping\u00a0to provide hundreds of\u00a0Girl Scouts throughout the Lehigh Valley region with financial support so they can experience all that Girl Scout camp has to offer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/thank-you.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-129956\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/thank-you-1024x508.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/thank-you-1024x508.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/thank-you-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/thank-you-768x381.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/thank-you.jpg 1398w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information and Images provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nTaylor Campbell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left to Right: Co-Chair Tina Hasselbusch, Lydia C., Carmen Bell, Lindy A., Danielle M. Joseph, CEO Kim E. Fraites-Dow, Jocelynn S., Stephanie Sherry, Gelina C., Katarah A. Jordan, Co-Chair Mary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=129955\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania\u2019s Take the Lead Lehigh Valley Ceremony 4\/23<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/take-the-lead-24.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/129957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}