Event

2024 Regional Assembly and Leadership Awards

At the assembly, MARC will present the 2024 Regional Leadership Awards. These awards honor people, organizations and initiatives that advocate regional concepts, approaches and programs; address regional challenges; apply innovative solutions to regional problems; and advance a regional vision of excellence and opportunity.

2024 Regional Leadership Award Recipients

• Kansas City, Missouri, Aviation Department – For their vision and professional delivery of the new terminal at the Kansas City International Airport, a critical regional asset that is transforming the metropolitan area.
• Gloria Ortiz-Fisher, executive director, Westside Housing Organization – For significant leadership on affordable and fair housing and sustainability in the Kansas City metropolitan area, and for bringing a commitment to equity and deep understanding of community development to the regional agenda, ensuring we create communities that work for everyone.
• Julie Lorenz, former secretary of transportation, State of Kansas – For exemplary leadership at the Kansas Department of Transportation, advancement of regional transportation goals and commitment to engaging local governments in positively transforming the systems that form the backbone of our economies and communities.
• Carolyn Wells, trauma and emergency preparedness manager, Liberty Hospital – For enduring service to the region through advancing health care coordination and emergency response essential to regional homeland security, and tireless efforts to strengthen the systems, relationships and protocols that help keep our communities safe.