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# Troop Support employees celebrate Women’s History Month

By  Maurice Matthews IIDLA Troop Support Public Affairs

                PHILADELPHIA  –              
Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support celebrated Women’s History Month during a program and awards ceremony on March 8, which is also International Women’s Day.

The theme for this year’s event was “Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories.”

“It is our opportunity to honor women, past and present, for their devotion to amplify women’s voices and their contributions to our nation,” said DLA Troop Support Deputy Commander Kishayra J. Lambert. “These stories of advocates, suffragettes, activists and champions are being written every day and deserve to be heard.”

 Lambert spoke on the importance of Women’s History Month and what it means to her.

“I am humbled to the first woman to serve as the deputy commander of this great organization,” she said. “I know that I stand on the shoulders of great women who have paved the way for me, breaking ceilings as they did.”

The guest speaker for the event was Rev. Dr. Lorina Marshall-Blake, president of the Independence Blue Cross Foundation.

“I look back at my career; I am the volunteer-volunteer,” she said. “People look at that and will want you on their team. Never have I thought that would take me to President at Independence Blue Cross, a $150 million dollar foundation.”

From contributing to 25 non-profit boards and committees of local, state and national organizations, to becoming the 28th president of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc, Omega Omega Chapter, Marshall-Blake has stories to tell, Lambert said.  

“My story is all about bringing people together,” Marshall-Blake said. “They say I am a MAD woman. Not MAD as in crazy but MAD meaning ‘Making A Difference.’”

Marshall-Blake recited a line from the book *What Keeps Me Standing: Letters From Grandmothers on Peace, Hope and Inspiration:* “Surviving is easy, it is the living that is difficult.”

 “It is key that we are here for Woman’s History Month, we should always be looking to mentor and pull each other up,” said Marshall-Blake.

She went on to uplift the nominees for this year’s Women’s History Month awards.  

“You are not an honoree by accident,” she said. “You have stood in front of your peers, and they said there is something about you.”

Crystal Robinson of the Subsistence supply chain won the award for non-supervisory employee in grades GS-11 and above, and/or non-supervisory military officers.

Kathy Nitka, the J3/5 Combatant Command Support division chief won the award for supervisor/manager of any grade and/or supervisory military personnel.

 

 

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