Pearlena Igbokwe Honored

Classmate Pearlena Igbokwe was honored recently as one of the leading women in broadcasting. (Click the title above for the whole article.)

A dozen top female executives in cable operations, programming and technology were honored at the annual Wonder Women luncheon Wednesday (March 24), an event in New York City attended by 830 people.The event, co-hosted by Multichannel News and the New York chapter of Women in Cable Telecommunications, featured the usual array of puns about gold tiaras and invisible jets, along with life lessons, humor and warm thanks from the women who were honored. The 12 Wonder Women -- and another 14 "Women to Watch" -- were selected by the editors of Multichannel News and profiled in the Jan. 25 edition of the magazine.

Here is what was said about Pearlena:

Pearlena Igbokwe, SVP of original programming at Showtime, recounted the story of how she immigrate to the United States from Nigeria as a girl and how television helped her perfect her English and that it continued to impart life lessons. I Love Lucy, she joked, taught her how hard you have to work to be in show business, for example. She said she felt a responsibility to be a mentor after the opportunity she was given at Showtime to transition from marketing to special projects and finally to develop original shows.

Well done, Pearlena!