{"id":278925,"date":"2025-11-12T02:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/278925\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T02:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:28:08","slug":"womanup-celebration-honors-outstanding-women-in-business-and-leadership-across-wnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/278925\/","title":{"rendered":"WomanUP Celebration honors outstanding women in business and leadership across WNC"},"content":{"rendered":"

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) \u2014 The Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce will host its annual WomanUP Celebration on Nov. 20, honoring outstanding women in business and leadership across western North Carolina.<\/p>\n

The event will be held at the Crown Plaza Resort Expo Center from 8-10:30 a.m.<\/p>\n

ABCCM HOSTING VETERANS DAY LUNCHEONS FOR VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES<\/a><\/p>\n

According to the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce, the WomanUP celebration brings together more than 500 attendees to recognize nominees and announce the recipients of this year’s awards. <\/p>\n

The event will also feature News 13’s own morning anchor, Katie Killen<\/a>, and former investigative reporter, Karen Zatkulak, as emcees.<\/p>\n

To learn more about WomanUP, see a list of nominees, and get tickets to this year’s celebration, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

WOMANUP AWARDS HONOR ASHEVILLE’S OUTSTANDING WOMEN IN BUSINESS<\/a><\/p>\n

About the WomanUP awards<\/p>\n

Awards presented at the 2025 celebration include:<\/p>\n

Woman Entrepreneur, Best in Business AwardOutstanding Woman in Nonprofit Leadership AwardSTEM AwardImpact AwardWoman Executive of the Year AwardRising Star AwardSuzanne DeFerie Lifetime Achievement Award<\/p>\n

WLOS PHOTOJOURNALIST STEVE WILDER NAMED RTDNAC PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR<\/a><\/p>\n

This year’s nominees include more than 55 women in industries from healthcare and technology to education, arts and entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) \u2014 The Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce will host its annual WomanUP Celebration on Nov.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[64,63,99,198],"class_list":{"0":"post-278925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-entrepreneurship"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}