Health Communication Division
Interest Group Awards
Listed here are awards given by the Interest Group to its members. Interests Groups are smaller communities within NCA's large membership that provide a range of resources including networking opportunities, Annual Convention programming, leadership opportunities, awards, and specialized information dissemination channels, among others.
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Outstanding Health Communication Scholar Award
Year | Award Winner |
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2023 | Kathryn Greene |
2022 | Xiaoli Nan |
2021 | Elaine Wittenberg |
2020 | Daniel O'Keefe |
2019 | Michelle Miller-Day |
2018 | James P. Dillard |
2017 | Mohan Dutta |
2016 | Seth Noar |
2015 | Susan E. Morgan |
2014 | Linda Goldbold Kean |
2013 | Michael Slater |
2012 | Charles Salmon |
2011 | Sandi Smith |
2010 | K. “Vish” Vishwanath |
2009 | Teresa Thompson |
2008 | Charles K. Atkin |
2007 | Jon F. Nussbaum |
2006 | Donald J. Cegala |
2005 | Barbara F. Sharf |
2004 | Roxanne Parrott |
2003 | Richard Street |
2002 | Lewis Donohew |
2000 | Gary Kreps |
1999 | Everett Rogers |
1998 | Vicki S. Freimuth |
Dale E. Brashers Distinguished Mentor Award
Year | Award Winner |
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2023 | Kathryn Greene |
2021 | Monique Mitchell Turner |
2020 | Mohan J. Dutta |
2019 | Elisia L. Cohen |
2018 | Kellie E. Carlyle |
2017 | Kami Silk |
2016 | Nancy Harrington |
2015 | Roxanne Parrott |
2014 | Gary Kreps |
2013 | Kasisomayajula “Vish” Viswanath |
Early Career Award
Year | Award Winner |
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2023 | Joris Van Ouytsel |
2022 | Qinghua Yang |
2021 | Satveer Kaur-Gill |
2021 | Sebastian Scherr |
2020 | Marleah Dean Kruzel |
2020 | Courtney L Scherr |
2019 | Katherine J. Head |
2018 | Kate C. Magsamen-Conrad |
2017 | Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn |
Distinguished Book Award
Year | Award Winner |
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2023 | Kathryn Greene, Valerian J. Derlega, Gust A. Yep, & Sandra Petronio, Privacy and Disclosure of HIV in Interpersonal Relationships: A Sourcebook for Researchers and Practitioners, published by Routledge in 2003. |
2021 | Elaine Hsieh, Bilingual Health Communication: Working with Interpreters in Cross-Cultural Care, published by Routledge in 2016. |
2020 | Mohan J. Dutta, Communicating health: A culture-centered approach. Polity |
2019 | Bryan B. Whaley, University of San Francisco, Research Methods in Health Communication: Principles and Application (Edited book published in 2014 by Routledge) |
2018 | Elaine M. Wittenberg-Lyles, Joy V. Goldsmith, Betty Ferrell, and Sandra L. Ragen, Communication in palliative nursing (Oxford University Press, 2013) |
2017 | J. Blake Scott, Risky Rhetoric: AIDS and the Cultural Practices of HIV Testing (Southern Illinois University Press, 2003) |
2016 | John Lynch, What are Stem Cells? Definitions at the intersection of science and politics (University of Alabama Press, 2011) |
2015 | Robin E. Jensen, Dirty words: The rhetoric of public sex education, 1870-1924 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010) |
2013 | Elaine Wittenberg-Lyles, Joy Goldsmith, Sandra L. Ragan, and Sandra Sanchez-Reilly, Communication as Comfort: Multiple Voices in Palliative Care (Routledge Press) |
2012 | Jay Baglia, The Viagra ad venture: Masculinity, media, and the performance of sexual health (New York: Peter Lang Publishing) |
2011 | Wayne Beach, A Natural History of Family Cancer: International Resources for Managing Illness (Hampton Press, 2009) |
2010 | Lynn M. Harter, Phyllis M. Japp, and Christina S. Beck, Narratives, Health, & Healing: Communication Theory, Research, & Practice (Routledge, 2005) |
Distinguished Article Award
Year | Award Winner |
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2023 | Marleah Dean Kruzel, "“It’s not if I get cancer, it’s when I get cancer”: BRCA-Positive Patients’(Un)certain Health Experiences Regarding Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Risk," published in Social Science & Medicine in 2016. |
2022 | Marie C. Haverfield & Jennifer A. Theiss, “Parent’s Alcoholism Severity and Family Topic Avoidance About Alcohol as Predictors of Perceived Stigma Among Adult Children of Alcoholics: Implications for Emotional and Psychological Resilience,” published in Health Communication in 2016. |
2021 | Daena J. Goldsmith & Kelsey Domann-Scholz;"The Meanings of 'Open Communication' Among Couples Coping with a Cardiac Event," published in Journal of Communication in 2013. |
2020 | Katharine J. Head, Seth M. Noar, Nicholas T. Iannarino, and Nancy Grant Harrington, "Efficacy of text messaging-based interventions for health promotion: a meta-analysis" |
2019 | Dr. Ambar Basu, University of South Florida “HIV AIDS and Subaltern Autonomous Rationality: A Call to Recenter Health Communication in Marginalized Sex Worker Spaces” (published in 2011, Communication Monographs) |
2018 | Rachel A. Smith, "Language of the lost: An explication of stigma communication" Communication Communication Theory, 17 (2007): 462-485 |
2017 | Barbara F. Sharf, "Trailblazing healthcare: Institutionalizing and integrating complementary medicine," Patient Education and Counseling 89(2012): 434-438 |
2016 | Maureen Keeley, “Final conversations: Survivor’s memorable messages concerning religious faith and spirituality,” Health Communication 16 (2004): 87-104 |
2015 | Melanie A. Wakefield, Sarah Durkin, Matthew J. Spittal, Mohammad Siahpush, Michelle Scollo, Julie A. Simpson, Simon Chapman, Victoria White, David Hill, “Impact of tobacco control policies and mass media campaigns on monthly adult smoking prevalence,” American Journal of Public Health 98 (2008): 1443-1450 |
2014 | James Dillard, and Lijang Shen, “On the Nature of Reactance and its Role in Persuasive Health Communication,” Communication Monograph 72 (2005): 144-168 |
2012 | Brian Southwell and Marco Yzer, “The roles of interpersonal communication in mass media campaigns,” Communication Yearbook 31 (2008): 419-462 |
2011 | Walid Afifi and Judith Weiner, “Seeking information about sexual health: Applying the theory of motivated information management,” Human Communication Research (2010): 32 (1), 35-57 |
2010 | Maria K. Lapinski and Rajiv Rimal, “An explication of social norms,” Communication Theory (2005): 15, 127-147 |
2009 | Elaine Wittenberg-Lyles, Joy Goldsmith, Sandra Sanchez-Reilly, and Sandra Ragan, “Communicating a terminal prognosis in a palliative care setting: Deficiencies in current communication training protocols,” Social Science & Medicine (2008): 66, 2356-65 |
2008 | Daniel J. O’Keefe and Jakob D. Jensen, “The relative persuasiveness of gain-framed and loss-framed messages for encouraging disease prevention behaviors: A meta-analytic review,” Journal of Health Communication (2007): 12, 623-644 |
The Amanda Kundrat Annual Thesis of the Year Award
Year | Award Winner |
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2018 | Erendira Estrada, "Development of a Participatory Health Communication Intervention: An Ecological Approach to Reducing Rural Information Inequality and Health Disparities" |
2015 | Carly Danielson and Tara Emmers-Sommer, “Attributions and Coping Behaviors Communicated Among Bullied Students: An Analysis of Bullying Blogs” |
2014 | Dorothy Brown, “Communication networks of men with prostate cancer” |
2013 | Wendy Jacobs, “The Effect of Stereotype Threat on Cognitive Difficulties After Chemotherapy: Communication the Association Between Chemotherapy and Cognitive Difficulties May Result in Higher Complaint Reporting, But Increased Memory Performance for Cancer Patients High in Stigma Consciousness” |
2012 | Wan Chi Leung, “Third-person Effect & Rectifying Behaviors: Studying Antisocial and Prosocial Online Messages of Youth Drug Abuse” |
2011 | Mindawati Wijaya, “Influencing Children’s Food Consumption: Impact of Message Framing and Tailoring on Efficacy and Intention” |
2010 | Jennifer J. Moreland, “The Conceptualization and Communication of Risk Among Rural Appalachian Adolescents” |
2009 | Abigail Prestin, “Examining Subcomponents of Efficacy Judgments as Factors in Health Promotion Message Design” |
2008 | Jiyeon So, “Exploring Contributions of Genre-Specific Media Toward Perceptions of Personal and Social Risk of Smoking Among South Koreans” |
2007 | Sarah Gibson, “The Role of Context and Rationalizations in Understanding Behavior in Relation to HIV Prevention in Rural Malawi: A Qualitative Analysis” |
2003 | Lijiang Shen |
2002 | Amanda L. Kundrat, "The Impact of Invisible Illness on Identity and Contextual Age Across the Life Span" |
1999 | Lisa Murray-Johnson |
1998 | Ashley Duggan, "Understanding Subjective Components of Illness: Physicians' Nonverbal Rapport Building Behaviors and Patient Willingness to Disclose Information about Self and Barriers to Wellness" |
Dissertation of the Year Award
Year | Award Winner |
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2018 | Kristen Farris, "The Impacts of Recurring Supportive Interactions on Couples' Psycological, Relational, and Health Outcomes in the Context of Rheumatic Diseases" |
2015 | Hanneke Hendriks and Bas van den Putte, “Let’s talk about alcohol: The role of interpersonal communication and health campaigns” |
2014 | Jessica Gall Myrick, “Searching from the heart. The interplay between emotions and customization in online health information seeking” |
2013 | Sherine El-Toukhy, “Priming Optimism: The Automaticity of Health Risk Perceptions” |
2012 | Joe Phua, “The Social Groups Approach to Quitting Smoking: An Examination of Smoking Cessation in Social Networking Sites through the influence of Social Norms, Social Identification, Social Capital, and Social Support” |
2011 | Elizabeth Gardner, “The Role of Narrative and Other-Referencing in Attenuating Psychological Reactance to Diabetes Self-Care Messages” |
2010 | Shelly R. Hovick, “Seeking Family Health Information: A Test of the Revised Theory of Motivated Information Management” |
2009 | Sally Dunlop, “Changing Health Behaviors: The Roles of Intra-and Inter-Personal Responses to Public Health Mass Media Campaigns” |
2008 | Janice Krieger, “An Empirical Test of Metaphors as a Strategy for Creating Culturally Appropriate Health Messages” |
2007 | Melissa Harris, “The Role of Emotion in Anti-Drug PSAs: Investigating the Impact of Guilt Arousal on Perceived Message Effectiveness and Behavioral Intentions to Use Drugs” |
Top Paper Award
Year | Award Winner |
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2021 | Comfort Tosin Adebayo;"'This is Why We're Dying': Discursive Constructions of Pregnancy and Maternal Healthcare Visits in African American Women's Stories" |
2021 | Katrina Webber, Sara Stifano, Stephen Christopher Stifano, & Shardé Marie Davis;"Unmasking Racial Disparities Amidst Dual Pandemics: Examining Social Identity Threat and Emotion within the Health Belief Model to Understand Masking-Wearing |
2021 | Dinah Tetteh & Zehui Dai;"Gynecologic Cancer Experiences of Women in Arkansas" |
2021 | Andre Fedd & Jennifer A. Samp;"Sexual Advice-Seeking Among Friends to Encourage Condom Use: Extending Advice Response Theory" |
2021 | Jeffrey A. Hall;"Visual Tailoring and Skin Cancer Prevention: Comparing Personalized, Stock, and Non-Ultraviolet Images" |
2020 | Shamshad Khan, “HIV Interventions and Health Communication at the Crossroads? Sharing Findings from a Community-led Structural Intervention against HIV/AIDS in Mysore, India ” |
2020 | Jennifer A. Kam, Monica Cornejo, Roselia Mendez Murillo, and Nicole Mendoza, "The Importance of Norms and Efficacy in Predicting Undocumented College Students’ Intentions to Talk to an On-Campus Mental Health Professional” |
2020 | Amy L. Delaney, Erin Basinger, Erin C. Wehrman, and Kelly McAninch, “Predictors and Outcomes of Communal Coping for Couples Managing Health Stress: A Test of the Extended Theoretical Model of Communal Coping” |
2020 | Anna M. Kerr, Claire Stewart, Charee M. Thompson, Alexander Rakowsky, and John D. Mahan, "'It’s become a little easier to accept that I don’t know what’s going on:' First-Year Pediatric Residents’ Reactions to and Communication about Medical Uncertainty” |
2020 | Mary Laffidy, Zhan Xu, and Lauren Ellis, "News Frames and News Exposure Predicting Flu Vaccination Coverage: Evidence from U.S. Newspapers, 2011-2018 Using Computational Methods" |
2019 | Wei Peng, Susan E. Morgan, Bingjing Mao, Soroya Julian McFarlane, Aurora Occa, Gilles Grinfeder, and Margaret Byrne, "Ready to make a decision: A model of information aids to improve informed participation in clinical trial research" |
2019 | Christina Nicole Selby, Andrea M. Bergstrom, and Corinne Dalelio, "Balancing Act: A Social Cognitive Framework for Understanding Parenting Styles andChildren’s Nutrition" |
2019 | Adam Richards, Elena Bessarabova, John Banas, and Daniel R. Bernard, Reducing Psychological Reactance in Health Promotion Messages: Comparing Preemptive and Postscript Mitigation Strategies" |
2019 | Jonathan Baker and Angela Palmer-Wackerly, "Contextualizing Transgender Individual’s Discourses About Health Insurance" |
2018 | Elizabeth Glowacki, Jay Bernhardt, and Matthew McGlone, "Tailored texts: An application of regulatory fit to text messages designed to reduce high-risk drinking" |
2018 | Analisa Arroyo, Belina Stillion Southard, Heather Samantha Cohen, and Sarah Caban, "Maternal comunication strategies that promot daughter's body image" |
2018 | Kory Floyd, Mark Generous, and Lou Clark, "Nonverbal affiliation by physician assistant students during simulated clinical examinations: Genotypic effects" |
2018 | Erin Basenger, John Caughlin, and Ningxin Wang, "Examining discrepencies between actual and desired communcal coping with Type 2 Diabetes" |
2017 | Laura O'Hara and Carolyn Shue, "Discursive Struggles in 'Diabetes Management': Examining the Proximal Not-Yet-Spoken Link." |
2017 | Joy Goldsmith and Sandra Ragan, "Palliativee Care and the Family Caregiver: Trading Mutual Pretense (Empathy) for a Sustained Gaze (Compassion)." |
2017 | Brittani Cook, Emily Scheinfeld, Ana Navarro, and Cheryl Perry, "Memorable Messages about E-Cigarettes." |
2017 | Sara Picklesimer and Stephen Christoper Stifano, "Know Your Feelings and Desires: Targets Emotional Education as a Vehicle for Improving Safe Sex Health Messages." |
2016 | Jennifer A. Kam, Katerina Marcoulides, and Andy J. Merolla, “Using an Acculturation-Stress-Resilience Framework to Explore Latent Profiles of Latina/o Early Adolescent Language Brokers” |
2016 | Kai Kuang and Steven R. Wilson, “Uncertainty and Information Management in Illness Contexts: A Meta-Analytic Review” |
2016 | Kami A. Kosenko, “Forms of Problematic Integration in the Context of Infertility” |
2016 | Victoria Orrego, Jasmine Rene Phillips, and Elena V. Chudnovskaya, “HIV/AIDS Prevention among Tz'Utujil Maya in Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala: Using a Community-Based Participatory Approach to Campaign Design” |
2016 | Kristen Harrison, Jessica D. Moorman, Mericarmen Peralta, and Kally Fayhee, “Food Brand Recognition and BMI in U.S. Preschoolers” |
2015 | Courtney Anderegg, Ashley Kennard, and David Ewoldsen, “Situation Model Formation and Comprehension of Expository and Narrative Health Information Texts” |
2015 | Qinghua Yang and Diane Millette, “Does Interactivity Help? A Meta-Analytic Review of Web-Based Interactive Health Interventions” |
2015 | Anna Kerr, Nancy Harrington, and Allison Gordon, “Communication and the Reappraisal of Uncertainty: Exploring Parental Uncertainty in the Context of Childhood Illness and Multidisciplinary Care” |
2015 | Jacqueline Bruscella, Alaina Zanin, and Elaine Hsieh, “The Mismanagement of Uncertainty: Interpreting and Negotiating Ambiguous Patient Cues in Clinical Oncology” |
2014 | Analisa Arroyo, Chris Segrin, Jake Harwood, Joseph A. Bonito, “Co-Rumination of Fat Talk and Weight Control Practices: An Application of Confirmation Theory” |
2014 | Jiyeon So., Lijiang Shen, “Examining the Risk Perception Gap in the Risk Convergence Model: Narrative Effects on Perceived Social Distance and Self- and Character’s Risk Perception” |
2014 | Catalina Toma, Jonathan D’Angelo, “Linguistic Cues to Perceived Trustworthiness in Online Medical Advice: A LIWC Analysis” |
2014 | Xiaoquan Zhao, Xiaoli Nan, Irina Alexandra Iies, Bo Yang, “Temporal Framing and Consideration of Future Consequences: Effects on Smokers’ and At-Risk Nonsmokers’ Responses to Cigarette Health Warnings” |
2014 | Lisa Guntzviller, Jakob D. Jensen, Luz M. Carreno, “The Impact of Child and Parent Characteristics on Language Brokers’ Health Literacy: A Test of Three Dyadic Models” |
2013 | Erin Donovan, Brittani Crook, Laura E. Brown, Angie E. Pastorek, Camille A. Hall, Michael S. Mackert, and Keri Stephens, “An Experimental Test of Medical Disclosure and Consent Documentation: Assessing Patient Comprehension, Self-Efficacy, and Uncertainty” |
2013 | Shelly Campo, Erica Spies, and Natoshia Askelson, “Applying the Theory of Normative Social Behavior to Predict Parents Perceptions of their First Year College Student’s Alcohol Use” |
2013 | Heather E. Canary, Jennifer A. Cummings, Connie A. Bullis, and Anita Y. Kinney, “Counselor-Client Conversations in a Colorectal Cancer Screening Intervention: An Analysis of Intersecting Activity Systems” |
2013 | Minji Kim, Rui Shi, and Joseph N. Cappella, “Effect of Character-Audience Similarity on the Perceived Effectiveness of Anti-smoking PSAs via Engagement” |
2013 | Robert Wu and Lora Appel, “Short Message Service or disservice: Issues Connecting Inter-professionally through Text Messages in a Complex Medical Environment” |
2012 | Shawna Malvini Redden, Sarah Jane Tracy, and Michael Shafer, “Are ‘Liquid Handcuffs’ Worth ‘Money in My Pocket’? A Metaphor Analysis of Recovering Substance Abusers’ Sensemaking of Medication Assisted Treatment” |
2012 | Evan Perrault, Kami J. Silk, Allyson Rogers, and Andrea Sexton, “Are Videos Worth It? Testing the Effect of the Addition of Videos to a Website Promoting Environmental Breast Cancer Risk Reduction Practices” |
2012 | Janice L. Raup-Krieger, Samantha Coveleski, John Graham, Allison Kootsikas, Michael L. Hecht, Michelle Miller-Day, and Jonathan Pettigrew, “From Kids, Through Kids, to Kids: Examining the Social Influence Strategies Used by Adolescents to Promote Prevention among Peers” |
2012 | Kai J. Western, Allison Thornton, Katherine Gronewold, and Amber R. Koblitz, “The Influence of Family on College Students’ Drinking Behaviors: Integrating Family Communication Environments and the Theory of Planned Behavior” |
1991 | Majia Holmer |
1990 | Majia Holmer |
1990 | Rebecca Cline |
1990 | J. David Johnson |
1990 | Hendrika Meischke |
1990 | Jennifer Grau |
1990 | Sally Johnson |
1989 | Julia Burke |
1989 | Abran Salazer |
1989 | Dale Brashers |
1989 | Hazel Rozema |
1989 | Juanne N. Clark |
1989 | Roxanne Parrott |
1988 | David Seibold |
1988 | Renee Meyers |
1988 | Michael Burgoon |
1987 | Kay McDougall |
1987 | Gregory Nelson |
1987 | Dawn Braithwaite |
1987 | Roxanne Parott |
1987 | Michael Burgoon |
1987 | J. David Johnson |
1987 | Paul Arntson |
1987 | Gregory Makoul |
1987 | David Pendleton |
1987 | Theo Schofield |
Top Student Paper Award
Year | Award Winner |
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2020 | Haijing Ma and Doris Acheme, “Does How You Feel About Yourself Matter? The Effects of Self-Activation and Risk Experience on Narrative Persuasiveness" |
2019 | Xizi Ru and Taylor White-Welchen, "Self-Efficacy and Health Information Seeking: the Role of Past Experiences on Future Health Information Seeking Behavior" |
2017 | Zhan Xu, "Using Text Mining and Sentiment Analysis to Compare Online Pro- and Anti-Vaccine Headlines" |
2015 | Elizabeth Johnson-Young, “Predicting Intentions to Breastfeed for Three Months, Six Months, and One Year Using the Theory of Planned Behavior and Body Satisfaction” |
2015 | Jiyoung Chae, “Cancer Information Overload and Cancer Information Avoidance Mutually Influence Each Other Over Time” |
2015 | Danielle Catona, “Fall prevention initiatives: Effects of active involvement interventions on strength and balance exercise-related attitude, norm, and intention” |
2015 | Hannah Ball, “An Application of Psychological Reactance Theory to the Illicit Use and Provision of Prescription Stimulants” |
2014 | Anne Borsai, John Christensen, Lynn Carol Miller, Paul Robert Appleby, and Stephen J. Read, “Character Identification as a Moderator of the Relationship between Perceived Social Norms and Sexual Risk-Reduction Intentions and Behavior: Findings from an eHealth Interactive Video Intervention” |
2014 | Yerina S. Ranjit and Merina Shrestha, “Perception of Social Power and Compliance Based on Traditional Health Beliefs in Nepal” |
2014 | Cindy Yixin Chen, “Risk Perception, Social Support, and Alcohol Use among U.S. Adolescents: An Investigation Using the 2011 National Survey on Drug Use and Health” |
2014 | Yaguang Zhu, “Social Media’s Influence on Youth Smoking: Changing Attitudes, Social Norms, Self-efficacy and Stages of Change” |
2014 | Georges Elias Khalil, “When Feelings Continue: A Difficulty in Emotion Regulation Predicts Cancer Risk Awareness after an Entertainment-Education Intervention” |
2013 | Chih-Wei Hu, “A New Measure for Health Consciousness: Development of A Health Consciousness Conceptual Model” |
2013 | Rebecca Amati, “Contradictions in End-of-Life Communication: Toward a Validation of the CEOL Scale” |
2013 | Jinghui (love) Hou, “Toward an Integrative Theoretical Model of Health-Related Risky Behaviors” |
2013 | Katie Margavio Striley and Kimberly R. Field-Springer, “When it’s Good to be a Bad Nurse: Expanding Risk Orders Theory to Nurses Experiences in OB Units” |
2013 | Nicholas T. Iannarino, “’My Insides Feel like Keith Richards’ Face’: A Narrative Analysis of Humor and Biographical Disruption in Young Adults’ Blogs about the Cancer Experience” |
2012 | Kristen Kiernicki and Domenick Wissel, “A Content Analysis of Image Congruency and Persuasiveness in Direct-to-Consumer Prescription Drug Advertising” |
Promoting Equity and Inclusivity Award
Year | Award Winner |
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2023 | Kathryn Greene |
2022 | Jennifer A. Kam |
Leadership Award
Year | Award Winner |
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2022 | Kate Magsamen-Conrad |