MBDA National Director Alejandra Y. Castillo will receive the National Urban League’s “Women of Power Award” at the Women of Power & Business Leaders Awards Luncheon on Aug. 4 at the Baltimore Convention Center.
The luncheon is part of the 2016 National Urban League Conference: Save our Cities: Education, Jobs and Justice. The award is presented to influential women in the civil rights, government, entertainment, journalism, sports, and corporate sectors.
Past winners include MSNBC/NBC Anchor Tamron Hall, Professional Boxer Laila Ali, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan E. Rice, Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice, President, Morehouse School of Medicine and hip-hop legend, entrepreneur and philanthropist, MC Lyte.