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WJA Awards over $65K to 49 Recipients
Jul 17, 2019 9:43 AM
By Rapaport News
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RAPAPORT... The Women’s Jewelry Association (WJA) has revealed the
winners of its 2019 Excellence Awards scholarships and grants.
The group will award a total of $65,500 — raised through its
Awards for Excellence Gala, individual member donations and sponsorships — to 49
women. Recipients use the funds to pay for their education and advance their
professional careers.
“Our grant and scholarship winners are an impressive group,” WJA
executive director Bernadette Mack said Tuesday. “Helping women enter and
sustain careers in the jewelry business is one of the most important goals of
the Women’s Jewelry Association.”
The 2019 scholarship and grant winners are:
Carelle ($5,000)
Anne Holman and Jen Townsend, owners of contemporary jewelry
and modern craft studio The Smithery.
Female Veteran
Scholarship, sponsored by Jewelers Mutual Insurance Group ($5,000)
Nora Micheli Hernandez, a student of jewelry
repair, computer-aided design, and jewelry technology at Texas Institute of
Jewelry Technology.
Cindy
Edelstein Jewelry Design Scholarship ($5,000)
Coco de Salazar, founder of de Salazar Jewelry,
and a teacher of fabrication and soldering classes. She holds the
president-elect board position for the WJA Miami chapter.
Gabriel
Love Foundation Scholarship ($5,000)
Xabrina Michel’li Thompson, a graduate gemology
student at the GIA.
The
June Herman Designer/Creator Scholarship Award ($5,000)
Qianwen Lu, a jewelry-design student at the
Pratt Institute
The
Peggy Kirby Designer Scholarship Award ($5,000)
Hsinyu Chu, GIA
Designer/Creator
Scholarships
Lauren Delbracco ($3,000)
Xun Liu ($2,500)
Zoe Larson ($1,500)
Melissa Cousins ($1,000)
Designer Scholarships
Mengjie Zhang ($2,000)
Xinchen Li ($1,000)
Non-Designer Scholarships
Bonnie Cornell ($3,000)
Jennifer Pollard ($2,500)
Katie Soule ($1,500)
Laura Marsolek ($1,000)
Grant
winners listed by WJA chapter ($500 Each):
Austin: Jen Leddy-Barnes
Boston: Wendy Jo New
Chicago: Sue Rosengard, Anne Van der Meulen, Olivia Zale
Colorado: Alexandra Fitzgerald
Dallas: Kelly Grise, Patricia Schrag
Houston: Maggie Segrich
Los
Angeles: Harvinder Keila
Northern
California: Sara Beck,
Christy Comstock, Brittany Stadtmiller
NY
Metro: Kristine Cabanban,
AnnaLisa Cervi, Christine Malle, Stephanie Maslow Blackman, Annmarie Sclafani
Stewart
Ohio/Kentucky: Christina Miller, Leslie Wright
Philadelphia: Christine Alaniz
Providence: Jennifer Skiba
Raleigh: Martha D’Alessandro
San
Diego: Laura Fischer, Niki
Grandics, Kathleen Lynagh House
Seattle: Nancy Castillo, Jessica Herner
Twin
Cities: Jennifer
Bellefleur, Dawn Bruggeman
Charlotte Preston “Gets
it Done” Grant: Betsy
Sanders
Image: Coco de Salazar, recipient of the Cindy Edelstein scholarship. (WJA)
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Awards for Excellence Gala, Bernadette Mack, Cindy Edelstein, Excellence Awards, Jewelers Mutual Insurance Group, Rapaport News, wja, WJA Awards, Women’s Jewelry Association
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