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Women of Excellence Awards Reception 2024
Check out our 2024 Women of Excellence Awards Reception!
Esther Deblinger Accepts Lifetime Legacy Award: 2024 Women of Excellence
Lifetime Legacy - Esther Deblinger, PhD
Women of Excellence 2024 Honoree
Today, when a child is a victim of sexual abuse, they can undergo treatments that have been tested and proven to work. That’s thanks to Esther Deblinger.
“I think my parents instilled in me this desire to be a helping professional, and even indirectly, the desire to help children who experienced difficulties that were traumatic in childhood,” she says. Both of Esther’s parents suffered very difficult childhoods and lost their parents around age 12.
Read about honoree, Esther, in our “Women of Excellence 2024” story here: https://sjmagazine.net/featured/2024-women-of-excellence
Anjali Darji Accepts Woman to Watch Award: 2024 Women of Excellence
Woman to Watch - Anjali Darji
Women of Excellence 2024 Honoree
When Anjali Darji got her period in middle school, she found a hoodie was her secret weapon for school days during that time of the month – it served 2 purposes: keeping her from being embarrassed if she got a blood stain on her jeans and hiding the pad she carried to the bathroom.
When Anjali realized this wasn’t a unique situation, she decided to do some research and found herself in a world of advocacy, starting at the Alice Paul Institute (API).
Read about honoree, Anjali, in our “Women of Excellence 2024” story here: https://sjmagazine.net/featured/2024-women-of-excellence
Joanne Rosen Accepts Leadership Award: 2024 Women of Excellence
Leadership - Joanne Rosen
Women of Excellence 2024 Honoree
Joanne Rosen, didn’t find her role at Samaritan. It found her.
Rosen became Samaritan’s first director of marketing and has been with the nonprofit, which provides hospice, palliative and at-home primary care, for nearly 30 years. She now serves as the Chief Marketing & Public Affairs Officer.
Read about honoree, Joanne, in our “Women of Excellence 2024” story here: https://sjmagazine.net/featured/2024-women-of-excellence
Beverly Collins-Roberts Accepts Game Changer Award: 2024 Women of Excellence
Game Changer - Beverly Collins-Roberts
Women of Excellence 2024 Honoree
For Beverly Collins-Roberts, storytelling has always driven her passion for photography, leading her to projects that, while personally fulfilling, have also brought her undeniable pain. But she will be quick to tell you that documenting stories that have been erased for centuries has to be done – no matter how painful.
While photographing Camden’s Pomona Hall in 2002, Beverly discovered a fact that had been kept under wraps for a century: Pomona Hall had been a slave plantation.
Read about honoree, Beverly, in our “Women of Excellence 2024” story here: https://sjmagazine.net/featured/2024-women-of-excellence
Gisele DiNatale Accepts Publisher’s Award: 2024 Women of Excellence
Publisher’s Award - Gisele DiNatale
Women of Excellence 2024 Honoree
When Gisele DiNatale’s daughter, Alicia, was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer at the age of 16, Gisele and her husband Mario stayed by their daughter’s side for the next 13 months as she battled her disease.
When Alicia passed away in 2002, Gisele and Mario set out to support other families with kids battling cancer and established the Alicia Rose Victorious Foundation. For over 2 decades, they’ve provided teens battling cancer with activities and spaces to help them feel more like teens while staying in the hospital.
Read about honoree, Gisele, in our “Women of Excellence 2024” story here: https://sjmagazine.net/featured/2024-women-of-excellence