Kerry Lynch stepped into the role of editor of the&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;monthly magazine in May 2022 after serving with&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;for eight years. She joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in December 2014 as a senior editor covering Washington and business aviation news. She has also served on Convention News teams, including as editor of&nbsp;HAI Convention News. Lynch previously spent 25 years with Aviation Week. During her time there, she reported for and later steered&nbsp;The Weekly of Business Aviation, oversaw business aviation content on the&nbsp;Aviation Week Intelligence Network, served on the&nbsp;Show News&nbsp;staff, and held roles as the Washington columnist for&nbsp;Business &amp; Commercial Aviation&nbsp;and&nbsp;Overhaul &amp; Maintenance&nbsp;monthly magazines. In 2021 she was honored with the National Business Aviation Association Platinum Wing Award for lifetime achievement in journalism and was the 2004 recipient of the National Air Transportation Association’s Aviation Journalism Excellence Award. She also has been a recipient of an Aerospace Media Award for business aviation (2022) and NBAA Gold Wing Award (2003, 2024). Lynch graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor of arts in journalism.

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The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee tomorrow is set to consider a bill designed to bolster careers for women in the aviation industry.

 


The bill, Promoting Women in the Aviation Workforce Act (H.R. 4673), would create a Women in Aviation Advisory Board to support organizations and programs that provide education, training, mentorship, and recruitment of women in the aviation industry.

 


Rep. Elizabeth Esty (D-Connecticut) introduced the bill late last year, and the legislation has picked up 17 co-sponsors. Noting that women are significantly underrepresented in the aviation industry, Esty, in introducing the bill, said that the legislation “continues the important work of encouraging more people—and especially women—to consider careers in the high-skill field of aerospace. At a time when nearly a fifth of our aerospace engineers are able to consider retiring, we need to elevate the initiatives happening in the private sector to encourage women to join this important sector of the workforce.”

 


The bill is similar to legislation introduced in December by Sens. Tammy Duckworth (D-Illinois) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) and is one of a growing<a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2018-01-03/lawmakers-move-foster-womens-careers-aviation"> number of efforts</a> to foster women's careers in aviation. In December the House approved by a vote of 409-17 the Women in Aerospace Act, designed to further open fellowship and grant opportunities to women.

 


NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen endorsed the efforts, commending lawmakers for “recognizing the need for women to have greater representation in aviation, and taking this step to address the challenge.”

 


The House panel will consider the bill on the eve of the opening of the 29th Annual International Women in Aviation Conference in Reno, Nevada. That conference, to be held from March 22 to 24, will feature sessions designed to mentor women seeking to advance their careers in aviation, including a series of planned hiring briefings from operators and manufacturers.

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