I’m thrilled to share news that Veronica Arreola has been awarded an Impact Award from the Chicago Foundation for Women.  Read all about it right here.

In addition to penning our SCIENCE GRRL column of course, Veronica the Assistant Director of the Center for Research on Women and Gender and directs the Women in Science and Engineering Program at UIC. She has worked with numerous feminist organizations including the Chicago Abortion Fund, National Organization for Women and Women In Media & News. She’s a veteran blogger who contributes to a handful of sites including Kenneth Cole’s AWEARNESS blog, and Chicagonista. Veronica’s writing has appeared in Chicago Parent, Bitch, Ms., Alternet, RH Reality Check and in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Motherhood. She has appeared in the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times as well as on WFLD TV and WGN Radio. She was featured in an Emmy Award-winning story on WGN TV, “The B-Word.” Veronica has received the UIC Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Women’s 2007 Woman of the Year, and she is a graduate of the Women’s Media Center’s Progressive Women’s Voices training program.

Join me in sending her congrats!