Thank You to the 2021 Passion * Power * Progress Sponsors
Thank You to the 2021 Passion * Power * Progress Sponsors
Leader
Kivvit
Visionary
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
Benefactor
Comcast
Fairview Insurance Agency Association
Hackensack Meridian Health
Orsted
PSE&G
RWJBarnabas Health
Assemblyman Anthony Verrelli
Partner
Advocacy & Management Group
Anbaric
Anheuser Busch
AT&T
Assemblyman Daniel Benson
Capital Impact Group
Speaker Craig Coughlin
Fair Share Hospitals Collaborative
Fox Rothschild LLP
Genova Burns LLC
Senator Vin Gopal
Amy Mansue
Middlesex County Democratic Organization
New Jersey Business & Industry Association
New Jersey Chamber of Commerce
New Jersey Natural Gas
New Jersey Realtors
New Jersey Utilities Association
Planned Parenthood Action Fund of NJ
Princeton Public Affairs Group
Reynolds American
Riker Danzig
River Crossing Strategy Group LLC
Senate President Stephen Sweeney
Somerset County Democratic Committee
South Jersey Industries
Taft Communications
Thomas Edison State University
Utility & Transportation Contractors Association
Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf LLP
Friend
ARH Associates
Bayshore Recycling
Bevan, Mosca & Giuditta, P.C.
Marcia W. Brown, Esq.
Laurie Clark
Eileen DellaVolle
Edison Democratic Organization
Dennis Enright
Sharon Shinkle Gardner
Assembly Majority Leader Louis Greenwald
GTB Partners
Hoagland Longo
Jefferson Health New Jersey
Assemblyman Robert Karabinchak
MBI-GluckShaw
McCarter & English LLP
Elizabeth Murray
Congressman Frank Pallone
Stark & Stark
Senator Joseph Vitale
Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg
Shari Weiner, Esq.
Supporter
AECOM
Rosemary Bernardi
Chamber of Commerce Southern New Jersey
Jennifer H. Chuang, MD, MS, FAAP
Zulima Farber
Jeanne Fox
Assemblyman Thomas Giblin
Impact NJ
Katz Government Affairs
Eileen Kean, Esq.
Assemblywoman Pamela Lampitt
Lawrence Law
NAIOP New Jersey
NJ Food Council
Assemblywoman Annette Quijano
Melanie Willoughby
Trish Zita
Thank you again for sharing our commitment to increase women’s participation in the political process.
WPCNJ Congratulates the 2021 Passion * Power * Progress Award Honorees
WPCNJ to Honor Marcia Brown Recipient of the Social Justice Award

WPCNJ to Honor Assemblyman Anthony Verrelli Recipient of the Good Guy Award

WPCNJ to Honor Michellene Davis, Esq. recipient of the Mary Philbrook Award
Named among the Top 25 Most Influential Minority Leaders in Healthcare in the nation by Modern Healthcare Magazine, Becker's Hospital Review Top 50, Top 65 and in 2020, Top 70 African Americans to Know in Healthcare, Top 10 on the NJBIZ Health Care Power 50, the 2017 Top 100 in Business, the ROI-NJ Top Influencer, the Insider-NJ Politically Most Influential List, ranked by NJBIZ as the State of New Jersey’s top lobbyist in the healthcare industry, and as one of the Top 25 Most Influential Black Women in Business by The Network Journal, Michellene Davis serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Affairs Officer of RWJBarnabas Health. Ms. Davis leads Social Impact and Community Investment across the healthcare system. She oversees the areas of Policy Development and Government Affairs, Healthy Living and Community and Employee Wellness and Engagement, and Global Health.
She leads the organization’s mission of health through addressing the social determinants of health through a policy led equity framework of racial justice informed social impact and serves to enhance the system’s position with state and federal elected officials and agencies.
Ms. Davis is a noted thought leader on health equity and change agency and is the co-author of, “Changing Missions, Changing Lives: How a Change Agent can Turn the Ship and Create Impact.” RWJBarnabas Health is the largest, most integrated healthcare delivery system in the State of New Jersey, covering a service region which is home to more than two-thirds of the State’s residents. Having joined RWJBarnabas Health (previously Barnabas Health System) in 2009, Ms. Davis became the first woman and the first person of color to ever ascend to the position of Executive Vice President in its 152 year history. She is the creator of the RWJBarnabas Health Women’s Leadership Alliance, the Young Professional Advisory Council and the Corporate Institute for Internship.
Before joining RWJBarnabas Health, Ms. Davis served as Chief Policy Counsel to former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, where she was the first African American to serve in this position in state history. She was the first African American and only the second women to serve as Acting New Jersey State Treasurer responsible for a state budget of over $30 billion dollars. She was the youngest person to serve as Executive Director of the New Jersey Lottery in state history and served as a senior policy advisor in the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services. Ms. Davis has a proven record of supporting the equitable building of community wealth throughout her career and, while Acting State Treasurer of New Jersey, founded the New Jersey Department of the Treasury’s Office of Supplier Diversity and Division of Minority and Women Owned Businesses.
She is also active in civic engagement in the local and the global community. Internationally, she is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Black Women’s Public Policy Institute. Nationally, she serves on the Boards of The Democracy Collaborative, The Root Cause Coalition and the Building Healthy Places Network Advisory Council.
She is the President Emeritus of the Executive Women of New Jersey, the state’s premier organization for senior level executive women in business, Chair of Academic Affairs for the Joint Board of Rutgers-Rowan Universities; Treasurer of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center WoWomen’s Association; and is on the boards of the Rutgers Institute for Women’s Leadership; New Jersey Bipartisan Coalition for Women’s Appointments; The Caucus Educational Trust and the New Jersey Legislative Black Caucus Foundation.
She began her legal career as a trial litigator, is an Honors graduate of Seton Hall University and holds a Juris Doctorate from Seton Hall School of Law and Executive Education Certificates in Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Impact Strategy from the Harvard Business School and from the Wharton School of Business respectively.
WPCNJ Endorsed Asw. Valerie Vainieri Huttle for NJ State Senate
WPCNJ to Honor Kivvit Recipient of the Corporate Award

WPCNJ Expresses Gratitude and Congratulations to Senator Loretta Weinberg on her Retirement
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WPCNJ To Honor Michael Egenton, Good Guy Award Recipient
