Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP), the nation’s largest bipartisan women’s business group, announced today Georgia Berner, President of Berner International Corp., has been named to WIPP’s Executive Advisory Board.
As a member of WIPP’s Executive Advisory Board, Georgia will provide strategic counsel on strengthening the impact of women business owners at the federal legislative and executive levels, bring her unique perspective on top economic growth concerns to our nation’s political leaders and activate this quickly-growing demographic.
Georgia is also a recognized advocate for energy conservation, social programs and philanthropy in the Pennsylvania region, as well as nationally. She has held board positions for the Federal Reserve Bank, Pittsburgh branch, the Lawrence County Economic Development Corporation, the Air Movement and Control Association (AMCA) and for the National Association of Manufacturers in Washington DC. She also is an advocate for small business leadership and has been a part of several national initiatives, including the Wall Street Journal’s / Winning Workplaces Top 10 Small Workplaces. One of Georgia’s current initiatives is the WhatIfPost.com – a site she created to simplify and make sense of the health care debate in this country. It’s a site full of information that is meant to answer the question: What if we had a health care system that worked?”
Her board participation includes social services, manufacturing and industry concerns, women’s issues and the arts. Georgia currently serves on the board of directors of Catalyst Connection (Pennsylvania Industrial Resource Center for Manufacturers), Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission, Children’s Advocacy Center, New Castle, PA, Economy League of Western Pennsylvania, Adagio Health, Women’s Campaign Forum Foundation, Lawrence County Crisis Shelter and the Pennsylvania League of Young Voters.
