The Human Rights Commission announced the winner of the Woman of the Year Award and the recipient of the Women Educating Women Scholarship.
In the name of social distancing, the announcement was made via Facebook live Friday, with Director Idalia Luna showing both the check for $500 and reading part of the winning essay for the Women Educating Women scholarship. The theme focused on woman gaining the right to vote 100 years ago, and in the essay written by Jenna Wiggleton, she says without the efforts of the passionate women who came before, a true democracy wouldn’t have been realized.
Wiggleton was the winner of the scholarship—she intends to attend Murray State University. This year’s winner of the Fannie Bronson Postell Woman of the Year Award is Ruth Lynch, who Luna says is heavily involved in the community and always looking for ways to better the world.
Luna says although many Women’s History Month events have been cancelled, these awards allow women to be celebrated even still.