4A’s President and CEO Nancy Hill Receives AWNY ‘Changing the Game’ Award

New York, NY – April 18, 2013 – 4A’s President and CEO Nancy Hill received AWNY’s “Changing the Game” award today during a luncheon held at the New York Hilton.

The award recognizes women within the industry who are true catalysts of innovation—fearlessly making bold moves and reinventing the rules of marketing to transform their brands, their organizations and those of their clients.

Hill took the helm of the 4A’s in 2008, the first woman to lead the 4A’s, and she has worked to restore relevance to the 96-year-old association, which is the largest one representing advertising, marketing and media agencies.

A founding member of the Digital Advertising Alliance, Hill helped shape best practices for the ad-marketing industry in protecting consumer privacy online. She was recognized at the White House last year for her involvement in the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), which has been lauded as a model for other countries to replicate.

Hill has also made strides on some of her passion points in the industry: cultivating new and diverse talent, and continued training and education for those already in the industry and those who wish to make advertising a career.

Over the past five years, she expanded the Multicultural Advertising Intern Program (MAIP), a 40-year-old initiative that has placed hundreds of multicultural students in industry positions. And in 2008, along with the New York City Department of Education and several ad industry peers, Hill helped establish the High School for Innovation in Advertising and Media (IAM) in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn. The school, which graduated its first class in 2012, is the nation’s only public high school that has the advertising arts as part of its core curriculum.

Hill’s commitment to change is also evident outside the advertising community. An active board member for People Helping People, she has worked with the organization to build eight schools in Otavalo, Ecuador, where she has maintained a home for several years. More than 1,000 students have been able to further their education by having schools within close proximity to their villages.