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AAUW-Bethlehem has honored Maria Teresa Donate with the Gateway to Equity Award. Donate's life work has been dedicated to the values of AAUW: equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy and research. In her work and in the community, she promotes and embraces these values. Donate is a professor of counseling at Northampton Community College. She is an advocate in the community for people of color and is passionate about volunteering. Active in academic assistance and local community organizations, she has served as president of the Latino Leadership Alliance of the Lehigh Valley, as a member of the Board of Governors of the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce and the Board of Directors of the United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley and as co-chairwoman of the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Latino Task Force. Click here to read the article.