2022 STEP Ahead Award Winners

STEP Ahead Award Honorees and Emerging Leaders have accomplished success within their companies and have proven to be leaders in the industry as a whole. The Institute has also chosen to recognize a select few for the Emerging Leaders category – representing young women who are the future of the industry and have demonstrated exceptional accomplishments at just the beginning of their careers.

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2022 Honorees and Emerging Leaders

The following women were honored with STEP Ahead Awards. Take a look at the amazing stories of these impressive women in the 2022 STEP Ahead Awards profile book.

Vanessa Adams
Pratt & Whitney
Haley Antoine*
Toyota Motor North America
Mariah Arevalo*
Dow Inc.
April Armstrong
Fresenius Medical Care
Erin Ashcroft
STIHL, Incorporated
Amber Barrett
John Middleton Co., an Altria Company
Katie Barry
Marion Manufacturing Company
Jenny Bartley
Toyota Motor North America
Erin Beaver*
Harley-Davidson Motor Company
Alison Bell
The Sherwin-Williams Company
Heather Bennett
Woven Metal Products, Inc.
Lorraine Black*
INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA
Morgan Blanchett*
Medtronic Inc.
Robyn Boling
Trane Technologies plc
Angela Bowen
National Gypsum Company
Gabriela Bozdog
Molson Coors Beverage Company
Molly Cafoncelli
Materion Corporation
Julianne Campbell*
Honeywell Aerospace
Andrea Campos*
IBM
Murphy Carley
Dow Inc.
Ashley Caswell
General Motors
Sylvia Chan
GlobalFoundries
Jenny Chung*
Parker Hannifin Corporation
Erin Cinadr*
General Motors
Vanessa Combs
Spirit AeroSystems
Sharon Connary
Saint-Gobain Corporation
Emily Connor*
Covestro LLC
Kobi Connor
Ashley Furniture Industries
Delia Contreras
Honeywell
Cheryl Cozza
Ingredion Incorporated
Kenia Cruz*
Ashley Furniture Industries
Bonnie Davis
JELD-WEN, Inc.
Brittany Davis*
BASF Corporation
Leifje Dighton
GE Appliances, a Haier Company
Kelly DiPucchio
General Motors
Amy Doroff*
Whirlpool Corporation
Sandy East
Cornerstone Building Brands
Julie Fay
BASF Corporation
Tamera Fenske
3M
Loanne Freedlund
Welbilt, Inc.
Jana Gessner
PepsiCo Inc.
Allison Giddens
Win-Tech, Inc.
Earnee Gilling
Toyota Motor North America
Connie Good
Ball Corporation
Danielle Graham
Brown-Forman Corporation
Angela Greiner
Cooper Standard Automotive
KiAsia Haire*
The Sherwin-Williams Company
Jessica Hanson
Robert Bosch LLC
Kate Heiken
Ovintiv USA Inc.
Yarelis Hernandez
LyondellBasell
Eowyn Hewey
Arconic Corporation
Rosita Higgs
McCormick & Company, Inc.
Amanda Hopkins*
Philip Morris USA, an Altria Company
XingGe Hou*
Jabil Inc.
Melissa Irons
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Alicen Johnson*
3M
Arwen Kathke
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
SuJung (Crystal) Kim
Johnson & Johnson
Lynne Knittel
Barnes Group, Inc.
Marcie Knox
Sealed Air Corporation
Sufana Kreber
Tyson Foods, Inc.
Min Kuang
Koppers Inc.
Janet Lee
Essity North America, Inc.
Allison Lemasters
Malibu Boats, LLC
Yassaman Liaghati
The Boeing Company
Victoria Linares
Diamond Envelope Corporation
Chunju Liu
AGCO Corporation
Elba Lizardi
BASF Corporation
Lucia Loza-Galezewski
Rockwell Automation, Inc.
Nicole McDonald
Brunswick Corporation
Nicole McKinstry
Greenbrier Companies, Inc.
Dianne McMaster
Emerson
Natalie McMillan*
Eastman Chemical Company
Alma Rosa Meléndez Martínez*
SABIC
Madison Miller
Covestro LLC
Suzanne Mitchell
ABB Inc.
Sile Morrissey
Oldcastle APG, a CRH Company
Pamela Obando
Pfizer Inc.
Valerie Oberson
IBM
Brooke O’Dell
Henkel Corporation
Andrea Orr*
Ford Motor Company
Mónica Pacheco
Owens-Illinois, Inc.
Shefali Panse*
Saint-Gobain Corporation
Tova Parker
ExxonMobil Global Projects Company
Elizabeth Peeff*
Chevron Phillips Chemical Company
Morgan Perras*
Trane Technologies plc
Corie Phee
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Angela Praiswater
Celanese Corporation
Brenna Preisser
Brunswick Corporation
Monique Radersma
DENSO Manufacturing, Inc.
Anita Ragan
Hollingsworth & Vose Company
Andrea Rago
Trane Technologies plc
Eileen Rivera
Boston Scientific Corporation
Nneka Robinson
The Procter & Gamble Company
Mary Rolph*
LLFlex, LLC
Carrie Royal*
Fiber Industries
Tammy Russ
Smithfield Foods
Sharon Ryan
International Paper
Mahue Sánchez García
SABIC
Cindy Satterness
Stratasys, Inc.
Wendy Scholler
Mercury Marine
Reema Sinha
SABIC
Laura Smith
Shaw Industries Group, Inc.
Sarah Spencer*
Porex Technologies Corp
Labrini Stathonikou
Leviat, a CRH Company
Giovana Stein
Dow Inc.
Amber Stewart*
Koppers Inc.
Sue Sumner
The Procter & Gamble Company
Karen Sy-Laughner
Parker Hannifin Corporation
Chrissy Taft
Novelis Inc.
Leann Tatman
American Woodmark Corporation
Pam Taylor
Libbey Inc
Gladys Thomas
Allegion plc
Rebecca Thompson
AAON, Inc.
Adrianne Tipton
Novolex
Madeleine Titus*
Armstrong Flooring, Inc.
Holly Tran
ALOM Technologies Corporation
Nhi Tran*
Celanese Corporation
Kristel Van den Steen
Pfizer Inc.
Shannon Walton
WestRock
Patricia Warner
Owens Corning
Rosina Wickart
Johnson & Johnson
Malithi Wickramathilaka
Porex Filtration Group
Bria Williams*
ABB Inc.
Kim Williams
Kohler Co.
Tania Wingfield
BorgWarner Inc.
Tyra Woodruff
Whirlpool Corporation
Dianmei Xu
Kennametal Inc.
JianMei Xue
Jabil Inc.
Rayne Zimmerman
Ketchie, Inc.

*Asterisk indicates an Emerging Leader