Daria Dillard Stone

Since 1998, the YWCA Dayton WOI A wards have recognized and honored the most influential women in the Dayton area , visionaries who have made a difference in our community through their dedication to the YWCA mission of empowering women, eliminating racism , and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all. Last night at a social including previous honorees the new honorees were announced:

Women of Influence Class of 2018 are:

Additionally, Pam Morris, founder and CEO of CareSource , will be honored with the 201 8 Women of Influence Lifetime Achievement Award. Morris was first named a Women of Influence Honoree in 2011.

Honorees were selected from a pool of more than 85 nominations by YWCA leadership and the volunteer WOI Committee, led this year by Chair Jenny Michael, vice president of marketing and corporate communications at CareSource, and Co – Chair Debbie Watts Robinson , CEO, Miami Valley Housing Opportunities .

Says Shannon Isom, president and CEO of YWCA Dayton, “ Occasionally, someone will ask me if we’ll ‘run out’ of influential women in the Dayton area to recognize. Clearly, we will not. We stand in awe of these women. They are thought leaders, innovators, literal care givers. They make our community stronger by sharing those gifts to break down barriers and help the most vulnerable among us thrive . That is the mission work YWCA Dayton has done for 147 years, and we are honored to lift up these women in pursuit of that vision. ”