Today is International Women’s Day, a worldwide celebration about the incredible contributions to society women have made throughout history.
March 8, 2019
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Today is International Women’s Day, a worldwide celebration about the incredible contributions to society women have made throughout history. Here are a few ideas on how you can celebrate:
1. Thank a woman who inspires you.
It is always appreciated, and not done often enough. Send her a quick note and let her know that her work/advice/actions matter to you.
2. Color!
Give our Women in STEM and Women in the Manhattan Project coloring books to a young person in your life. It’s a fun way to learn about women in STEM in our history and present, like scientist Blanche Lawrence who graduated from Tuskegee University and worked as a junior biochemist on the Manhattan Project.
3. Read about women in STEM.
Read a story of a woman in STEM and her journey to her current career on Women @ Energy. Hear about her inspiration and the steps – or leaps – that she took along the way to become a STEM professional in one of our national labs, NNSA, or headquarters.
4. Listen to a woman in STEM's story.
Listen to our Ruth's story podcast episode and subscribe to Direct Current on iTunes (or wherever you listen to your podcasts). Our next episode will be all about women in clean energy! Ruth’s story is about Ruth Huddleston, and the job she took when she was 18 years old at a top secret Army facility in Tennessee turned out to be instrumental to changing the course of history.
5. Get girls connected to STEM.
Connect girls (and boys) with an event at a lab near you to learn about STEM and meet women in STEM. There’s Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day at Argonne National Lab near Chicago, My Amazing Future at Idaho National Laboratory, Expanding Your Horizons conference at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and many more events to choose from.
6. Get savvy on the stats.
In the U.S. Energy & Employment Report you can find figures on women’s employment in each sector of the energy workforce (did you know the electric power generation sector has the highest percentage of women?). The report was released just this week by National Association of State Energy Officials and the Energy Futures Initiative.
7. Learn more about women in energy.
Save the date and join us online on March 14 for our Women in Algae Webinar. The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy will walk you through the breakthroughs in their work on making algae-based biofuel work for the U.S. transportation sector and the women behind this innovative work.
8. Get a woman in STEM recognized for her work.
Nominate a woman in clean energy to the U.S. Clean Energy Education Empowerment (C3E) Awards. She’ll be in the running for an $8,000 prize, time in the national spotlight, and recognition at our next C3E Symposium. Plus she’ll be in great company (check out past awardees here).
AnneMarie Horowitz
AnneMarie Horowitz is the Chief of Staff for the Arctic Energy Office. She joined the Arctic Energy Office in May 2023, and previously served as the Acting Communications Director until September 2023. AnneMarie has been with the Energy Department since 2010, and was previously on the digital team of the Office of Public Affairs, where she managed digital projects and internal employee communications efforts. AnneMarie was the Digital Communications Manager from March 2023 - September 2023 for the Department of Health and Human Affairs' Public Education Campaign, We Can Do This, to share information about the COVID vaccine.
AnneMarie founded two active employee resource groups at the Department of Energy: POWER (Professional Opportunities for Women in Energy Realized) and the Emerging Professionals Group. From 2015 - 2017 she served as the Special Advisor on workforce issues for Deputy Secretary of Energy Dr. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall. She has also previously worked in the Under Secretary for Management and Performance and the Office of Economic Impact and Diversity.
AnneMarie created the STEM Rising: Women @ Energy series, featuring profiles of women from the agency who work in STEM careers. She was critical to establishing the Equality in Energy Transitions Initiative, a dual-hatted effort of the International Energy Agency and the Clean Energy Ministerial to advance the transition to a clean energy economy by engaging more women in clean energy, and is involved with the U.S. C3E Initiative as an award reviewer and communication. During the Obama Administration she was a DOE designee to the White House Council on Women and Girls. AnneMarie was a U.S. delegate to the APEC Women in the Economy Forum in 2014 in Beijing, China.
AnneMarie has a BA in Political Science from the University of Portland and a Masters of Government from Johns Hopkins University. She resides in Philadelphia.