Maria Bartolillo, executive director of St. Francis School for the Deaf, center, displays a Shirley Chisholm Women of Excellence Award in the Education & Research category, with her fellow recipients at the First Baptist Church in Brooklyn.

Sen. Jesse Hamilton co-hosted the event, which aligns with Women’s History Month and is honors Chisholm, a Brooklyn native who in 1968 became the first woman elected to Congress. The event drew 300 guests.

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