Among the other high-profile women honored at the VIP soiree: Sen. Kirsten GillibrandKirsten Elizabeth GillibrandGillibrand's jobs plan another federal program we don't need Kamala Harris will no longer accept corporate PAC money Schumer to introduce bill to decriminalize marijuana MORE (D-N.Y.), Google vice president of public policy and government relations and former Rep. Susan Molinari (R-N.Y.), White House deputy chief of staff Alyssa Mastromonaco, political strategist Susan McCue, Olympian Michelle Freeman, Federal Communications Commission member Mignon Clyburn, Voto Latino president and CEO Maria Teresa Kumar, NBC News’s Andrea Mitchell and CNN’s Jessica Yellin.
Flanked by Gucci America President Christophe de Pous, Elle Editor-in-Chief Robbie Myers joked in remarks to the crowd that her young daughter asked her before the event if the women being celebrated were “as powerful as Taylor Swift?” Myers said she replied, “Yes, honey — these women run the world.”
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(top left) Back row: Susan McCue, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Robbie Myers, Dr. Jill Biden, Maria Teresa Kumar, Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero, Mrs. Laura Denise Bisogniero / Front row: Michelle Freeman, Alyssa Mastromonaco, Susan Molinari, Mignon Clyburn
(bottom left): Susan McCue and Laurie Knight
(bottom right) Maria Teresa Kumar and Mignon Clyburn