2023 Women MAKE Award Winners

Women MAKE 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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2023 Honorees and Emerging Leaders

The following women were honored with Women MAKE Awards. Take a look at the amazing stories of these impressive women in the 2023 Women MAKE Awards profile book.

Frankie Adair
Raytheon Technologies
Homa Akbarian
Johnson & Johnson
Lubna Alansari*
SABIC
Maria Aleman
AGCO Corporation
Antiquea Allen
Smithfield Foods
Amy AlSahsah
Greene Tweed
Molli Andor*
Ford Motor Company
Lynda Arnett
Exxel Outdoors
Heidi Balestrieri
Sentry Equipment
Fiona Bell
Novelis
Madison Benson*
Pella Corporation
Mindy Berrey
Land O’Lakes, Inc.
Rhonda Bott
The Procter & Gamble Company
Erin Bowers
Cleveland-Cliffs
Dezarae Brooks
Ingredion Inc.
Kayla Brown*
Libbey Glass LLC
Jessica Buck*
Toyota Motor North America
Sara Burdak, Au.D.
Starkey
Andrea Caceres
O-I Glass, Inc.
Xia (Carol) Cai
BorgWarner Inc.
Shelly Cantrell
Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Leslie Cantu
Toyotetsu Texas, Inc
Jennifer Carroll-McMillion
McCormick & Company
Maria Cristina Chaidez Navar
Zebra Technologies
Jennifer Childs
Ingalls Shipbuilding, a division of HII
Brenda Clarke
ITAC
Megan Cooney*
Northrop Grumman
Jodi Cooper
ABB
Nicole Crews
Swagelok Company
Jaelene Cumba
The Boeing Company
Carolyn Curran*
Materion Corporation
Lindsey Daniels*
BASF Corporation
Guelseren Demirel
3M
Aine Denari
Brunswick Corporation
Rozena Dendy
ExxonMobil Corporation
Angela Dodd
International Paper
Lisa Donnell
Dow Inc.
Garland Dughi
Lucid Motors
Carol Easley
BASF Corporation
Liza Elliott*
Spirit AeroSystems
Deborah Erzen
BWX Technologies, Inc.
Zoe Espinosa*
Nike Air Manufacturing Innovation
Jill Evanko
Chart Industries
Rachael Fiala*
ExxonMobil Corporation
Leslie Ann Field
Siemens
Jennifer Garcia
Hydro Extrusion North America
Christine Garramone
Toyota Motor North America
Ana Girardot*
Dow Inc.
Amanda Goetze
Boston Scientific Corporation
Ilse Gonzalez
Abbott
Mayda Graulau-Santiago
Eaton Corporation
Kimbra Gunselman
MasterBrand Cabinets
Jessi Hall
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories
Jennifer Hamann
Union Pacific Railroad
Deleria Hammond
General Motors
Danyal Harris
Libbey Glass LLC
Wendy Harris
American Woodmark Corporation
Zoë Hastert
Johnson Controls
Erika Hernandez
Hill’s Pet Nutrition, a subsidiary of Colgate-Palmolive
Alison Holland*
General Motors
Amy Hooper
Eastman Chemical Company
Peggy Jones
Pentair
Ann Kelleher
Intel Corporation
Diana Kelley
Covestro LLC
Linda Kiss
nVent
Chelsea Krause
Rockwell Automation
Noeida Kuhnert
Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Molly LeBlanc
LP Building Solutions
Lucy Lee
Dover Corporation
Jodi Lindow
Cornerstone Building Brands
Rose Luvaas
LyondellBasell
Sarah-Jane Lynn*
Johnson & Johnson
Cara Madzy
BASF Corporation
Emery Magee*
Ashley Furniture Industries, LLC
Emma Marcone*
Siemens Energy
Christine Marvin
Marvin
Melissa McTavish
Harley-Davidson, Inc.
Lindsay Michalski
Dow Inc.
Kalie Miera*
3M
Justina Molina
Covercraft Industries, LLC
Jenny Nail
Oldcastle APG, a CRH Company
Vinitha Nalla
Trane Technologies
Lucia Nevarez
Ecolab Inc.
Tanya Nigam
Klára Nováková*
The Procter & Gamble Company
Koyinsola Olorode
Griffith Foods
Samantha Ortiz*
Phoenix Contact
Jeanice Padilla
Chevron Phillips Chemical Company
Jenny Paige
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Hannah Pearl*
DENSO
Jeannette Pellot
Honeywell
Samantha Petersburg
Sukup Manufacturing Co.
Laura Phillips
Pella Corporation
Cheryl Pinkerton
Arconic
Ingrid Redmon
Shaw Industries Group, Inc.
Sofia Reising*
Panduit Corporation
Melissa Rhinehart
Nike Air Manufacturing Innovation
Leigh Ann Richardson
Koppers Inc.
Heather Richins
Fresenius Medical Care North America
Shannon Rothrock
IBM
Summer Saiedi
Ball Aerospace
Shari Saxon-Black
National Gypsum Company
Brandy Schall
Ovintiv USA Inc.
Angel Seabold
Whirlpool Corporation
Annie Sebastien
Pfizer
Madison Seifert*
Kohler Co.
Alison Seward
GE Appliances, a Haier company
Lindsey Shahan*
The Sherwin-Williams Company
Ariel Shasko*
Kennametal Inc.
Cathryn Shaw Reid
Bristol Myers Squibb
Jalyn Smith
GE Aerospace
Maura Smith
Toyota Motor North America
Ashley Southwick*
Owens Corning
Cathy Staelgraeve
General Motors
Kathleen Szczesniak
The Sherwin-Williams Company
Viktoria Tabeleva*
Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope
Amanda Taylor
Merck & Co., Inc.
Chelsea Terhune
Anheuser-Busch
Emily Thomas*
Emerson
Melinda Thompson
Cornerstone Building Brands
Kiomarys Toro*
Pratt & Whitney
Rashmi Vadlakonda*
Trane Technologies
Katherine Van Strander
Samsung Austin Semiconductor
Lisa Vanlerberghe
Molson Coors Beverage Company
Camille Vicencio
Henkel Corporation
Cheryl Vlach
Panduit Corporation
Kaitlin Weston*
Saint-Gobain/Certainteed
Kim Woehrle
Arconic
Kim Woods
Phoenix Packaging

*Asterisk indicates an Emerging Leader