Women leaders recognized
Harvard undergraduate Amy Yin ’14 and Zipcar founder and former CEO Robin Chase were honored as the 2014 recipients of the annual Harvard College Women’s Leadership Awards. Faculty, students, and staff gathered at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge April 24 to recognize the women for their achievements. The award, in its 17th year and coordinated by the Harvard College Women’s Center, promotes awareness of women’s and gender issues, and each year recognizes an undergraduate who has demonstrated exceptional leadership and made a meaningful impact on fellow students. The award also acknowledges a woman outside of the College who has demonstrated exceptional leadership and distinguished herself in her profession, public service, or the arts. Yin was chosen for blazing a trail through the sciences, a field in which women often have been underrepresented. She joined the Harvard Financial Analysts Club and eventually went on to become its president. She became a concentrator in computer science and...