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
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