The Filipina Women’s Network (FWN) has selected Selenna Franco-Cefre, a Bay Area practicing Certified Public Accountant, as one of the 100 Most Influential Filipina Women in the United States. Selenna was honored under the “Builders and Emerging Leaders” category for her exceptional work as a young and emerging CPA and for her inspiring leadership and achievements as President of the University of the Philippines Alumni Association of Northern California (Berkeley) Chapter and Past President of PICPA-USA, an organization of Fil-Am CPAs in the Bay Area.
The 100 Most Influential Filipina Women in the United States Award is a celebration of leadership, inspiration and achievement. It honors Filipina women who are changing the face of power in American communities, organizations and the workplace.
“These influential Filipina American women are dynamic entrepreneurs, rising stars under 40, emerging builders and executives who have moved through the ranks in large organizations, nonprofits and government agencies. They are powerful examples of women doing extraordinary work who will motivate our youth and future leaders,” said Gloria T. Caoile, political director of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) and co-chair of the FWN 100 Nationwide Search and Selection Committee. “They were selected from nominations submitted from 19 states.”
The 100 Most Influential Filipina Women in the U.S. Award™ is a working recognition award, a dream with a meaningful purpose: double the number of Filipina women leaders by 2012. The awardees are asked to femtor a protégée and return with her to the Pinay Power reunion on August 30,2012 in San Francisco.
“Pinay Power 2012 began in 2006 with a dream to inspire, inform, and advance Filipina women leaders who would influence the Filipino American community’s future. It provides a critical pathway for successful women who care about advancement, achievement, and significance,” said Elena Mangahas, board chair of Filipina Women’s Network. “These women are not only talking about change, but plan to be part of making it happen.
FWN honored these amazing women at a gala dinner awards celebration last October 14, 2011 at the Stanford Court Renaissance Hotel in San Francisco. The keynote speaker was the Honorable Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye, California Supreme Court Justice. She is the first Asian-Filipina American and the second woman to serve as State’s Chief Justice. Per Marily Mondejar, President of the Filipina Women’s Network, “the awards gala was the highlight of the 8th Filipina Leadership Summit. Awardees shared this inspiring evening with their daughters, sons, mothers, grandmothers, young women and men from their organizations.”
FWN is a non-profit professional association founded to raise awareness of the activities, careers and status of women of Philippine ancestry based in the United States. FWN’s mission is to advance Filipina women in the U.S. workplace through programs and activities that enhance public perceptions of Filipina women’s capacities to lead, change biases against Filipina women’s leadership abilities, and build the Filipina community’s pipeline of qualified leaders, to increase the odds that some will rise to the president position in all sectors.
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