BWiC Inspire Awards 2024

Join us as we celebrate the most exemplary women in Construction who demonstrate
leadership, generosity, innovation, and
unwavering commitment to their career, colleagues and industry.


Congratulations to the 2024 BWiC Inspire Awards Recipients!

(L-R) Libby Murphy - BWiC Mentor of the Year 
Project Executive - Suffolk Construction

Elizabeth Jackson - BWiC Emerging Leader of the Year 
Senior Project Manager - Gilbane Building Company

JoEllen Racicot - BWiC Rising Star of the Year
Site Safety Manager, Dimeo Construction Company

Daylee Rivera - BWiC Young Achiever
Wentworth Institute of Technology

Shamaiah Turner - BWiC Tradeswoman of the Year
Sheet Metal Workers Local 17


ABOUT THE AWARDS>>

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BWiC Welcomes Special Guest Speaker Senator Lydia Edwards 
Senator Lydia Edwards is a career advocate, activist, and voice on behalf of society's most vulnerable. She was raised all over the world by her military mom but chose to make East Boston her home.
Prior to being elected to the State Senate and Boston City Council, Lydia worked extensively in the legal field. She worked as a public interest attorney with Greater Boston Legal Services focusing on labor issues such as fighting for access to unemployment insurance, back wages, fair treatment for domestic workers, and combating human trafficking.
Senator Edwards coordinated a statewide campaign to pass the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights - and she won. Following the bill?s passage, she was named Bostonian of the Year, Honorable Mention, by the Boston Globe. In February 2023, Senator Edwards was named chair of the Joint Housing Committee in the MA state legislature. 
In addition to her role as a State Senator, she serves as First Lieutenant Officer in the Massachusetts National Guard working as a Judge Advocate General, where she addresses military legal matters. 
 

Hosted by Judylynn Monaco, FSD Project Manager at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Judylynn Monaco, CFM, LEED GA is a strategic, innovative and energetic professional with 40+ years of diversified design, facilities, construction and management experience with a proven track record of delivering high profile, fast-paced, critical projects on-time and within budget.

JL has a BFA degree in Space Planning & Design from the acclaimed Ringling College of Art & Design in Sarasota, FL.
Currently she is working as a PM in the Facilities Services Department at MIT Lincoln Laboratories, which oversees 43 Buildings and over 2.4 million square feet of space on Hanscom Air Force Base.

Prior, JL spent 16+ years as a successful project manager in the healthcare industry responsible for the project management of all phases of a project from real estate search through certificate of occupancy - including from the ground-up construction; As well as worked for a Boston based OPM firm ? DPM, Furniture Dealership ? Corporate Interiors, and General Contractor ? Gloucester Builders. She started her career at John Hancock Financial Services in the Space Planning and Design Department where she led the team for 17 years.

Special thanks to the 2024 judges:

Elizabeth von Goeler, Principal & Chair of External Relations, Sasaki
Dan Annaccone, Global Senior Project Manager - Capital Projects at Biogen
Kate Shoss, Senior Vice President | Director of Marketing at Bulfinch
Heather H. Taylor, AIA, LEED AP, Campus Planner/Architect at Phillips Exeter Academy
Wendy Kennedy Venoit, Construction Lawyer, Construction Arbitrator, and Domestic and International Construction Arbitration Advocate, Member at Cozen O'Connor
John Hynes, VP / Project Executive at Boston Global Investors LLC