WNBA Commissioner Hosts Lehigh Alumnae Career Talk

By Marketing and Communications Team May 24, 2024

Following a record-breaking 2023 WNBA season with unprecedented viewership, attendance, and digital engagement, Lehigh University was excited to have WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert ’86 ’23P host a Soaring Together Alumnae Event at WNBA HQ. The event focused on discussing how women can pivot their careers from the C-suite to other industries or non-profit boards to further create lasting impact. View the full photo gallery.

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Cathy Engelbert, wearing a royal blue blouse under a black leather jacket, poses with two alumnae
Cathy Engelbert stands at a podium and speaks to a room of Lehigh event attendees in WNBA HQ.
Cathy Engelbert and panelists talk at the front of a Lehigh event hosted at WNBA HQ as attendees look on.
Cathy Engelbert poses with an alumna after autographing a basketball she is holding with a Sharpie marker.
Four women with name tags stand at a high top cocktail table smiling at the camera
Two women smile for the camera while standing in a corridor lined with floor to ceiling photo murals of basketball players
Four women wearing name tags stand shoulder-to-shoulder and smile at the camera at an event.
Female audience sits facing one direction and the camera focuses on one women smiling with rows of basketball jerseys against the wall
A room showing an audience from behind assembled in casual stadium seating and chairs at the front with a screen that says "Lehigh"
Audience of women are seated, presumably giving their attention to a speaker at the front of the room
Two alumnae speak intently in a large room with a row of basketball jerseys int he background.
Three alumnae engage in conversation in a room that features casual stadium seating behind them.
A female student works inside the lab of Lehigh University's Health, Science, and Technology building

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