For the first time in the 11-year history of the Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards, Hillary Clinton couldn’t make it.
A trip to Turkey kept the Secretary of State from attending the awards ceremony, held at the Kennedy Center’s Opera House on Wednesday evening, but it didn’t keep her from appearing on screen to deliver a taped greeting to the 2,000-plus guests and eight female honorees in the theater that night.
Clinton, after all, is an integral part of the history of the Vital Voices Global Partnership, which she and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright started as a U.S. government initiative in 1997, and which has since grown into its own as a nonprofit organization — though with the same mission of advancing women’s roles as economic, social and political forces of change.
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