Major Category Winner, History Maker: Jean Gaddy Wilson
Suddenly, I notice the quiet. The flickering light reflects off the workers’ faces. One looks over and says, “Where did you get this? What are you going to do with it?”
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Mentors_Role Models
Major Category Winner, MDPT (video): Lynne Silver
Each day… She had stories in her head. Love stories…the kind she loved reading and checked out of the library by the dozen…The library would be hosting a local author giving a talk about becoming a romance author… and the dream to become a professional author began… Read More…
Regional Winner, Africa: Lola Akinmade Åkerström (Nigeria)
Walking up onto that muddy rugby pitch. Burly men stopped playing and watched in silence as I approached them. They peered down at me as I stopped within their midst. “I am Lola,” I introduced myself. “I know you don’t have a women’s rugby team but I will help you start one.” Read More…
Regional Winner, Canada: Michelle Smith
I just knew that sooner or later, the ‘real me’ would burst out of my painstakingly constructed disguise – and then I’d lose everything that I had worked so hard for. Read More…
Regional Winner, East-Central Europe: Hana Medin (Croatia)
I am a person, who knows of no boundaries, does not take no for an answer and is instigated to find a solution to every encountered problem. Read More…
Regional Winner, SouthEast Asia (video): Madhu Chitkara (India)
Madhu realized that while her husband possessed tremendous intellectual capital to teach she also had the entrepreneurial skills to match….Thus, in 1998 she established Chitkara Educational Trust. Read More…
Regional Winner, Middle East (video): Sahar El Hawary (Egypt)
“Anything I wanted to do or say, he gave me the personality and the power. I think the time will come when women will be football stars just like the men .” …Patiently, audaciously, one by one, she opened the doors of a world reserved for men. Read More…
Regional Winner, Northern Europe (video): Kristina Svajone Bobs (Lithuania)
I was born in Lithuania in the 1970s, when our little country was still behind the ‘Iron Curtain’ and part of the communist Soviet Union…I realize now how much my mother inspired me to work, to never feel second best…I’m proud to carry on her traditions. Read More…
Regional Winner, United States: Kara Vanderpool Ward
The best plan I could ever have is to simply learn to bend and snap….it is the meaning that is the same -be open to possibility, deal with change no matter how minor or drastic, and make quick decisions when needed. In essence it is the very reason that in the midst of all my existing and overwhelming responsibility I launched my own company. Read More…
What’s a Hot Mommas Project Watch Party?
What is a Hot Mommas Project watch party? We’ve taken our typical one-location awards announcement and “disrupted it.” We are now streaming from Washington, DC to you in your home town. The ripple effect? Hundreds of little Super Bowl / World Cup parties will take place all over the world to celebrate the mentors and role models in our life.
When: Saturday, November 2 at noon EST (Washington, DC time). Sign up for a digital ticket…