Dive Into Your Imagination

Catherine Remak an award winning news director and morning show host of the Gary and Catherine show on KLITE 101.7 was the AWCSB winner for her outstanding service and community outreach. Remak reaches nearly 28,000 people weekly of which 18,000 are women. She considers herself, “the voice of the people without a voice,” because in addition to her on air time, she is a spokesperson for children and the elderly. Not only was she the founder of Kids in Community Service, she is also Director of Communications and Events for the Alzheimer’s Association. As a founding board member, Annie Crawley had the pleasure of introducing Remak and giving her the award.

Ann Louise Bardach is the author of Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington (Scribner 2009) and Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana. She is also the editor of The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro as well as Cuba: A Travelers Literary Companion. She serves on The Brookings Institution's Task Force on Cuba and is CBS News' special correspondent on Fidel Castro. Bardach lives in Santa Barbara and also teaches in the Global Studies program at University of California Santa Barbara. Board member, Kathleen Barry, MFT, introduced Ann Bardach and awarded her the AWCSB, Women of Achievement Award 2009.

Bardach is a voice of investigative journalism, a medium that she fears is dying slowly. She believes we do not yet realize the extent of what is happening as we are losing our reputable newspapers and media outlets. Her work has been anthologized in KILLED: Journalism Too Hot To Print and Mexico in Mind (Vintage). She was a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair for ten years and has written for The New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times. She has appeared on 60 Minutes, Today, Dateline, CNN, The O’Reilly Factor, Charlie Rose, National Public Radio and PRI's Marketplace. She created and wrote the Global Buzz column for Newsweek International and the Interrogation column for Slate.

President of Women In Communications, Santa Barbara, Lois Phillips, and co-author of Women Seen & Heard ran the event to honor these communication leaders.

The entire program was recorded by Channel 21 and available for viewing at a later date. The Association for Women in Communications represents disciplines including print and broadcast journalism, television and radio production, film, advertising, public relations, marketing, graphic design, multimedia design, photography, video, online businesses, music, web design and blogging. The purpose of the group is to foster collaboration and support among women in communications while encouraging them to play a leadership role in shaping the future of their fields.

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