Press Release
From: YWCA of Palm Beach County
Re: PNC/YWCA “Women in Power” Luncheon January 19, 2011
Date: December 23, 2010
Contact: Allyson Samiljan – 561-640-0050, Ext. 115, or 561-248-9884 (cell)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc., announces the second in a series of five “Women in Power” Luncheons to benefit the YWCA of Palm Beach County. Attorney, author, producer and activist Tonya Lewis Lee will be the honored guest and speaker at noon on Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at the Palm Beach Photographic Centre, 415 Clematis Street, West Palm Beach.
Tonya Lewis Lee
After practicing law in Washington, D.C., Ms. Lee began writing and producing for television and founded her own multi-media business, Madstone Company, Inc. For Nickelodeon and Nick at Nite, Madstone produced Black History Month programming featuring artists including Gregory Hines, Savion Glover, Whoopi Goldberg and Queen Latifah.
In 2002, Lee co-authored her first children’s book, Please Baby Please, with her husband, Spike Lee, and continued the series with Please Puppy Please. Her first novel, national bestseller Gotham Diaries, was released in 2004.
Lee served as executive producer of the 2004 documentary film I Sit Where I Want: The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education; the television mini-series Miracle’s Boys; and TVLAND’s three-part special, That’s What I’m Talking About.
For the past three years Lee has been the national spokesperson for “A Healthy Baby Begins with You” campaign initiated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health. The congressional Black Congress recognized Lee’s work by giving her the 2009 Congressional Black Caucus Health Brain Trust Award. She produced the documentary film Crisis in the Crib: Saving Our Nations Babies, and launched HealthyYouNow.com, a website to support women in attaining a lifestyle of health and wellness.
A contributor to magazines such as Avenue, O at Home, Gotham and Glamour, Lee has been a consultant to ABC News and appeared on Lifetime Television, Good Morning America and CNN. She serves as Vice Chairman of the board of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, as a board member of the Creative Coalition and as a member of the advisory board for Children for Children.
Tickets to the luncheon are available for $50 each by calling the YWCA at 561-640-0050, Ext. 134.