26th Annual Women United Luncheon
Friday, May 2, 2025
Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center
650 15th St., Denver
11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Doors open at 10:30 a.m. for a special experience
About The Event
For over 25 years, Mile High United Way has brought our community together to celebrate the power of women and girls at our Women United Luncheon. The theme for this year’s luncheon: Unapologetic. We believe our community is strongest when women and girls unapologetically share their light, courage and power with the world. Proceeds from this event support Mile High United Way’s Women United Initiative, providing women access to critical resources such as stable housing, new job opportunities, high-quality child care and more so they can pursue their dreams.
If you are attending the luncheon this Friday, we are thrilled you are joining us! All attendees will receive an email on Tuesday, the week of the event, with event reminders and parking information.
For immediate questions, please contact womenunited@unitedwaydenver.org.
About Our Speaker
As an unapologetic advocate for female empowerment, Christine Baranski encourages audiences to build a better future for women — from the educational opportunities they’re afforded early in life to the equity they should expect in the world.
Baranski is a winner of an Emmy, two Tonys, a Screen Actors Guild Award, Drama Desk Award and American Comedy Award.
A graduate of The Juilliard School, Baranski received her big break in Tom Stoppard’s hit Broadway comedy The Real Thing, directed by Mike Nichols, for which she won a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award.
As the formidable Diane Lockhart on The Good Wife, Baranski received six Emmy nominations and two Critics’ Choice Television Award nominations for her performance on the CBS series. She then starred as the character in the critically acclaimed spinoff The Good Fight, for which she was nominated for four Critics’ Choice Television Awards, a Golden Globe and Television Critics Association Award.
Baranski can also be seen as Agnes Van Rhijn in the HBO series The Gilded Age. Additional film credits include Dolly Parton’s Christmas On The Square, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, A Bad Moms Christmas, Mamma Mia!, Trolls, Miss Sloane, Into the Woods, Chicago, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Bowfinger, Bulworth, Cruel Intentions and The Birdcage.
We look forward to an inspirational afternoon with Christine!
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Frances Wisebart Jacobs Award Recipient
We are thrilled to honor Yun Hui Kehoe as the 2025 Frances Wisebart Jacobs Award recipient. Yun Hui is a Denver community leader, wife, mother, philanthropist and businesswoman. For more than 20 years, she has championed efforts, alongside Mile High United Way and Women United, to increase access to education and opportunities for women and girls.
Yun Hui’s passion for education came from her own experiences of teachers encouraging her after she and her family immigrated to the United States from South Korea when she was 10 years old. She is proud to be the first in her family to graduate college and served as a certified public accountant and credit union CEO before retiring in 2008.
Together with her husband, Mike, Yun Hui is a member of Mile High United Way’s Tocqueville Society and served as co-chair from 2019 to 2021. In 2024, the Kehoes joined Mile High United Way’s Million Dollar Round Table, which recognizes donors with at least $1 million in cumulative giving.
Yun Hui also has held multiple leadership positions, including chairing the 2017 Women United Luncheon, serving as the Women of Tocqueville Co-Chair since 2022, and serving as a board member of Denver CASA. In 2017, 9News KUSA recognized Yun Hui as a part of their 9Who Care series, and today she volunteers with organizations like Florence Crittenton, Food Bank of the Rockies and Mile High United Way’s Tax Help Colorado program.
Thank you to our event sponsors
