Natasha Ljuljic/Laura McHugh

Natasha Ljuljic and Laura McHugh were presented with the ATHENA Young Professional Award last month.

Ljulic is a human resource talent and diversity leader. She is responsible for managing diversity, inclusion and belonging initiatives globally as the company positions itself to be the most diverse industrial gas company in the world.

She is dedicated to promoting a diverse an inclusive workplace where people feel they belong and know they matter. Her body of work includes the oversight, development and creation of strategic programming and resources that support the organization in their diversity growth journey and leading a powerful network of employee resource groups. She has been an integral leader in championing several key initiatives that have shifted organizational culture as the company works to achieve its ambitious diversity targets set for 2025.

McHugh serves her community as associate vice president of marketing and communications for United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley, where she has worked since 2017.

In this role, she shines a light on the region’s greatest challenges and the solutions-focused work of United Way and its partners to address their root causes. Laura has more than 15 years of reporting, producing and hosting experience in both commercial and public television news, including covering forest fires in Montana and tornadoes in Kansas.

From 2008 to 2017, McHugh produced and hosted local programs and documentaries for PBS39, where she created FOCUS, WLVT’s award-winning weekly news magazine program. Additionally, she has worked as a freelance producer and host for Service Electric TV2 and as an adjunct professor of communications for

Cedar Crest College.