{"id":372990,"date":"2025-11-12T03:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/372990\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T03:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T03:16:11","slug":"womanup-celebration-honors-outstanding-women-in-business-and-leadership-across-wnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/372990\/","title":{"rendered":"WomanUP Celebration honors outstanding women in business and leadership across WNC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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<p>The event will be held at the Crown Plaza Resort Expo Center from 8-10:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wlos.com\/news\/local\/abccm-hosting-veterans-day-luncheons-for-veterans-and-their-families-orchard-church-waynesville-presbyterian-church-asheville-western-north-carolina-honor-wall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ABCCM HOSTING VETERANS DAY LUNCHEONS FOR VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s awards. <\/p>\n<p>The event will also feature News 13&#8217;s own morning anchor, <a href=\"https:\/\/wlos.com\/station\/people\/katie-killen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Katie Killen<\/a>, and former investigative reporter, Karen Zatkulak, as emcees.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about WomanUP, see a list of nominees, and get tickets to this year&#8217;s celebration, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashevillechamber.org\/news-events\/events\/womanup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wlos.com\/news\/local\/womanup-awards-honor-ashevilles-outstanding-women-in-business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WOMANUP AWARDS HONOR ASHEVILLE&#8217;S OUTSTANDING WOMEN IN BUSINESS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>About the WomanUP awards<\/p>\n<p>Awards presented at the 2025 celebration include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Woman Entrepreneur, Best in Business Award<\/li>\n<li>Outstanding Woman in Nonprofit Leadership Award<\/li>\n<li>STEM Award<\/li>\n<li>Impact Award<\/li>\n<li>Woman Executive of the Year Award<\/li>\n<li>Rising Star Award<\/li>\n<li>Suzanne DeFerie Lifetime Achievement Award<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wlos.com\/news\/local\/wlos-photojournalist-news-13-steve-wilder-rtdnac-photographer-of-the-year-radio-television-digital-news-association-north-south-carolina-journalism-broadcast-news-team-award\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>WLOS PHOTOJOURNALIST STEVE WILDER NAMED RTDNAC PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;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.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":372991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[64,607,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-372990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-entrepreneurship","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}