by Kelsea Rounds | Jan 6, 2016 | Profile
The ATHENA Young Professionals Award recognizes emerging leaders, promotes women’s leadership, and honors outstanding women and men in their earlier career stages. Sara Lachman, the 2015 recipient of this prestigious award, is a civil litigator with Miller...
by Kelsea Rounds | Aug 19, 2015 | Cityscene
The ATHENA Scholarships are given to nontraditional female students (over age 30) who are going back to school to start a new career or pursue a degree they might not have been able to before. ATHENA Scholarships are unique in that recipients can use the money for...
by Kelsea Rounds | May 14, 2015 | Profile
The ATHENA Young Professional award recognizes an individual who is involved in the community, acts as a mentor to young woman professionals, and supports the ATHENA program and exudes its tenets. As we look forward to the 2015 ATHENA awards, we chatted with 2014...
by Kelsea Rounds | Aug 18, 2014 | Profile
Never stop learning. Learning isn’t just for students, nor does the opportunity for learning end after graduation: Each day brings a new set of opportunities to stretch and challenge ourselves. Touching on the ATHENA tenet Learning, which was highlighted at the...
by Kelsea Rounds | Aug 4, 2014 | Profile
ATHENA was created in 1982, from within the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce, when Martha Mertz was the only woman on the board. “Neither my colleagues nor most community members perceived women as leaders. We didn’t see ourselves as leaders, either,...
