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WOMEN IN DEFENCE AWARDS 2021 21
THIS year’s winners are an amazing cross-section of women in Defence and industry, and are more than deserving of recognition for their achievements. We would also like to extend our congratulations to all of this year’s finalists for their outstanding work, and we look forward to celebrating with you all again at the 2022 event.
And without further ado, the winners are:
COMMUNICATIONS
Awarded to the defence community’s most outstanding fe- male individual working within the communications/mar- keting/stakeholder engagement field.
The finalists in the WIDA 2021 Communications cat- egory are: Shey Dimon of Penten, Melanie de Git of The Boeing Company, Dr Sharon Mascall-Dare of Babcock Australasia and Sarah Vesey of The Decisive Point.
And the winner is: Melanie de Git of The Boeing Company.
Melanie de Git is part of the global Communica- tions function at Boeing, overseeing brand and in-
novation communications
for Australia/New Zealand.
Melanie also oversees inno-
vation communications in
the region, primarily focused
on autonomous systems and
other advances by Boeing’s
Research & Technology-Aus-
tralia and Phantom Works
International teams. Lastly,
Melanie is the company’s lo-
cal social media manager and
leads the team’s efforts to adopt new tools and pro- cesses for global Communications function uses. In 2020, there were numerous milestones in Australian autonomy, most of which involved the Loyal Wingman/ Boeing Airpower Teaming System where Melanie was instrumental in leading the campaign from a commu- nications perspective.
A file photo of WIDA 2019. The 2021 event was held virtually due to the on-going pandemic.
ADM/KELLY PHOTOGRAPHY