Thank you for supporting women leaders.
On February 14, 288 members of the St. 做厙輦⑹ community honored nearly 700 extraordinary women for Give to Honor Her 2024. Donors honored mothers, sisters, wives, granddaughters, mothers-in-law, grandmothers, professors, long-time faculty and staff members of the University, campus leaders, roommates, community activists, daughters, politicians, friends, St. Kates retirees, and more.
Give to Honor Her is one of my favorite traditions at St. Kates, said Christy Jepperson, director of annual giving. What I love about this giving day is that we get to simultaneously lift up both todays Katies and women from around the world who made an impact on members of our University community.
This years Give to Honor Her celebration came at a pivotal moment in local history, just one month after the city of St. Paul elected its first all-women city council. On January 9, seven women six of whom identify as women of color celebrated their inauguration at City Hall.
The council, a self-described multifaith, multicultural group of women, bears a meaningful similarity to St. Kates, a womens university designated as a Minority Serving Institution by the U.S. Department of Education. Our Katies deserve role models who represent their experiences as well as their interests, and Give to Honor Her provides an opportunity to name those individuals like the seven women on their city council and thank them for their effort and impact.
In addition to honoring extraordinary women, Donors' gifts provided scholarship support to students through the Katie Fund. This generosity ensures that St. Kates will continue to serve an economically and culturally diverse student body for years to come.
Give to Honor Her is a celebration of the many and various ways in which women inspire, said Jepperson. It is a testament to our founding Sisters of St. Joseph, who formed St. Kates in 1905 as an act of faith in all that woman can be.
The names of all women honored will be published in newspaper tributes in the print editions of the Pioneer Press and Star Tribune on March 10 in celebration of Womens History Month.