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Edie Fraser
President
Business Women's Network
Edie as president of Business Women's Network (BWN) works with corporations, government, women's organizations and communications entities to reach more than 40 million women. BWN is art of the Working Women Network.
Edie Fraser is a founding member of the Committee of 200, and a Board Member of the Women's Business Center of Washington, Delphi International, the Women's Center in Nigeria, and Count Me In. She is the first woman to be the Honorary Board Member of the International Alliance.
Edie is Past President in Washington, DC of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) and is on the Advisory Board of the American Business Women's Association's Small Business Program, Capital Connection.
She is on the Advisory Board of WINGS and has been a consultant to the SCORE Program to support women's initiatives and recruited the first four women on the board. Edie is active on several community boards and has been an officer of Big Brothers-Big Sisters of the National Capital Area for 26 years. She is the recipient of the Big Brothers Most Outstanding Service Award.
Edie serves as CEO of Business Women's Network, which reaches out across the nation and the world to more than 40 million women. She works with more than 100 Fortune 500 companies, and is an internationally renowned speaker. She is president of the Public Affairs Group, Inc., which also operates Diversity Best Practiced In Corporate Communications. She chairs the Diversity Council. Edie is the recipient of a Silver Annual Award for the Best Global Business Case on US Japan Communications. Edie is a nationally recognized speaker and author. She has delivered more than 300 major addresses and twice had reprints in Vital Speeches. Her publications include Risk to Riches: Women and Entrepreneurship in America; Women and Diversity WOW! Facts; BWN Director of More than 6,000 Organizations and Resources; PAC Handbook; Who's Who in Energy.
She has received honors in Political Science at Duke University and further studied at Harvard University and the United States Department of Agriculture. Edie lives in Washington DC with her husband, Joe.
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