Top Three Global Winner (video): Eman Al-Awadhi
This was a turning point in my life; no longer was I going to allow anyone to taunt me, and NEVER will I allow anyone to think they could simply walk all over me. Read More…
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Top Three Global Winner (video): Kathy Wilson
Why in the world would anyone want to do business with me? I’m a fraud, who no one in their right mind would listen to. Or, at least, that is what I thought for many, many years as I bore the sins of my past and my skin color like the scarlet letter. It was only when a wonderful coach decided to take me through an exercise that my life ended up changing for good. Read More…
Major Category Winner, STEM: Francisca V. Alonso
Most people would look puzzled… They thought I was making a crazy decision…but was I? Always remember that no dream should be considered impossible. Read More…
Major Category Winner, Charles Schwab Financial Literacy (video): Whitney Johnson
Across from my Working Girl-ish type desk was a bullpen which was essentially a locker room for twenty-something guys aspiring to become masters of the universe. Because the pressure was so intense in this testosterone-filled room, they inevitably went for the hard sell in opening new accounts, saying things like “Throw down your pom-poms and get in the game.” Read More…
Major Category Winner, Mentoring (video): Caroline Adams Miller
I had gone from nearly dying to becoming an international role model….The ‘real Caroline Miller’ has decided to finally stand up and tell the story of how I have remained in recovery for decades. Read More…
Major Category Winner, Arts: Mary Sarah
…my parents were driving me to yet another competition, singing event, national anthem appearance, local Texas Opry’s, Honky Tonks – you name it, we went to them all. Read More…
Major Category Winner, Health and Wellness (video): Nasheen Liu
She allowed herself to cry, but she was determined to pull herself together. After all, she could not change the cards she’d been dealt…. Her will to live dominated her thoughts. Read More…
Major Category Winner, Survivor: Stephanie Gardner
As I look back on life, I see both the joys and the misery I experienced as things that built me into the person I am today….I am a survivor. They did not win. Read More…
Major Category Winner, Breaking Barriers (video): Anjum Nayyar
… She knew her life would change from this moment on…. How would she balance culture and motherhood as a new mom knowing that she wasn’t raised in a traditional South Asian family? Read More…
Major Category Winner, Breaking Barriers: Rosalyn McPherson
…Roz did recover and decided that never again would she allow someone to define who she was or was not. It was not about being a “star”. It was about growth and development…She would not become invisible and her talents would continue to evolve. Read More…