WILMA’s 2023 Women to Watch Awards Finalists

Meet this year's Women to Watch finalists
WILMA Staff,

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2023 Women to Watch Awards Finalists

ARTS:

  • Christina Capra – Filmmaker
  • Sonja Cook – Owner, Pinspiration
  • Sarah Hand – Owner, Educator & Private Music Teacher, Kindermusik with Sarah, Flutist, Wilmington Symphony Orchestra
  • Melissa Shuford – CEO & Author/Poet, FunkShun at the JunkShun
  • Melissa Wilgis – Artist, Melissa Wilgis

 

BUSINESS:

  • Cassandra Barba – Director of Marketing & Communications, Cape Fear Solar Systems
  • Aneliese Bard Andrades – President & Owner, Carolina Cleaning Services
  • Pam Hardy – District Manager, Duke Energy Progress
  • Tristan Manley – Senior VP-Product Leader of Small Business Banking, Live Oak Bank
  • Charity Tuttle – Kindness Curator & Founder, Be Mo’ Kind

 

EDUCATION:

  • Lauren Ann Cryan – Owner, Seabreeze Horse Connection
  • Michaela Howells – Associate Professor of Anthropology, UNCW
  • Maria Rodriguez – Program Director Community Spanish Interpreter, CFCC
  • Laura Rosser – Special Educator, New Hanover County Schools
  • Alexia Shank – College Access Coordinator, GLOW Academy

 

HEALTH:

  • Chelsea Croom – Program Manager, Rape Crisis Center of Coastal Horizons
  • Alexis Hunter – Community Liaison, Wilmington Health
  • Josalin Hunter – Associate Professor/Part-Time Faculty, UNCW, Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Coastal Horizons & Licensed Clinical Therapist, Journey to Healing
  • Amy Newberry – Owner & Founder, Pelvic Prescription PT & Wellness
  • Kelsey Sanders – Paramedic, Pender EMS and Fire, Brunswick Novant Emergency Department & State Medical Assistance Team

 

NONPROFIT / VOLUNTEER:

  • Qailinn Bowen – Strategic Partnership Coordinator, Northside Food Cooperative
  • Katie Tate – Director of Foundation, Lower Cape Fear LifeCare
  • Laurie Taylor – Development Manager, Carousel Child Advocacy Center
  • Meade Van Pelt – Executive Director, The Harrelson Center
  • Genna Wirth – Executive Director, Voyage

 

PUBLIC SECTOR:

  • Caress Clegg – Communications Supervisor, New Hanover County Schools
  • Morgan King – Family & Consumer Science Extension Agent, NC Cooperative Extension-New Hanover County
  • Kathleen Marshall – Animal Protective Services Officer, City of Southport
  • Fawn Rhodes – Health & Human Services Equity Coordinator, New Hanover County Health & Human Services
  • Kristy Williams – Program Manager, New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office-Elements Youth Violence Intervention Program

 

RISING STAR:

  • Allayna Dail – Assistant Director of Community Relations, City of Southport
  • Emma Ericksen – Marketing & Engagement Manager, Greater Wilmington Chamber of Commerce
  • Caroline Gann – Senior Analyst, Live Oak Bank
  • Leah Gillikin – Inpatient Nurse Navigator, Lower Cape Fear LifeCare
  • Ella King – 2023 Graduate, Isaac Bear Early College
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