CELEBRATING WOMEN LEADERS
Celebrating Women Leaders Luncheon
Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security

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Washington, DC—On December 16, 2009, the WFPG hosted a Women in Power Luncheon honoring Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano. In her address and the discussion moderated by New York Times Pentagon Correspondent Elisabeth Bumiller, Napolitano presented an overview of the Department of Homeland Security, now the third largest department in the government, incorporating 22 separate agencies. She outlined the five major mission areas for DHS which include: counterterrorism, securing the borders of the US, the enforcement of the nation's immigrations laws, cyber-security, and preparation for disaster response.

Napolitano explained that DHS is not just a domestic agency, stating that "our very existence recognizes that in this day and age, terrorism itself is a globalized phenomenon that comes home to roost right here." She noted that although the conflict in Afghanistan is thousands of miles away, "one of the major reasons, if not the major reason, they are being so deployed is because of safety right here in the homeland, the transnational nature of what is emanating to the world and to the United States out of the AfPak arena." Read more

 

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Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano


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Janet Napolitano with New York Times Pentagon Correspondent Elisabeth Bumiller


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WFPG Board Members with Janet Napolitano and Elisabeth Bumiller


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Janet Napolitano and Elisabeth Bumiller

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Janet Napolitano and WFPG Board Chair Maxine Isaacs

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Ambassador Glenda Morean-Phillip of Trinidad & Tobago, Maxine Isaacs, WFPG Vice Chair Gail Leftwich Kitch, and WFPG President Patricia Ellis

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Ambassador Abdulwahab Abdulla Al-Hajjri of Yemen, Diana Villiers Negroponte, The Honorable Ann McLaughlin Korologos, Patricia Ellis, and Maxine Isaacs

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Diana Villiers Negroponte, Ann McLaughlin Korologos, and Maxine Isaacs

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Ambassador Arturo Sarukhán of Mexico, Theresa Loar, and Patricia Ellis
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WFPG Board Members Diana Villiers Negroponte, Gail Leftwich Kitch, Susan Rappaport and guests from Raytheon

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Anita Botti of the State Department and Cécile Sportis of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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Maxine Isaacs and Elisabeth Bumiller

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Croatian DCM Dario Mihelin and Vera Nicholas-Gervais of the Embassy of Canada

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Janet Napolitano speaks with guests
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Political Counselor Naveen Srivastana of India

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Ambassador Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata of Italy

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Ambassador Abdulwahab Abdulla Al-Hajjri of Yemen and Lesta Brady of Oracle

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WFPG Pro-bono Counsel Sarah Kahn and Simone Bemporad of Finmeccanica North America, Inc.

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Counselor for Economic & Political Affairs Ahmed Al-Rumaihi of Qatar

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Ambassador Samir Sumaida’ie of Iraq

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Ambassador Said Tayeb Jawad of Afghanistan and WFPG Board Member Theresa Loar with guests

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WFPG Board Member Debbie Dingell

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WFPG Board Secretary Donna Constantinople

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WFPG Board Treasurer Dawn Calabia

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Ambassador Arturo Sarukhán of Mexico and Esther Coopersmith

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