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2021 CELEBRATION & AWARDS CEREMONY
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2021 CELEBRATION & AWARDS CEREMONY
WELCOME
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Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce
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AWARD PRESENTATION
Woman Entrepreneur, Best in Business
presented by Webb Investment Services
Recognizing a woman who demonstrates
the transformation of her dream into the reality of a
product or service and who exhibits the traits of an
entrepreneur: willingness to take risk, personal drive, focus,
perseverance, innovation and business acumen.
2021 Nominees:
• Aimee Diaz, Diaz Restaurant Group
• Aisha Adams, Aisha Adams Media Group
• Aleece Fosnight, Fosnight Center for Sexual Health
• Andrea Robel, Vistanet
• Carolina Dockery, Morsel Cookie Company
• Celia Naranjo, Asheville Goods
• Dixie Brown, Willow Place for Women
• Hadley Cropp, Asheville Realty Group
• Jael Rattigan, French Broad Chocolates
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AWARD PRESENTATION
Woman Entrepreneur, Best in Business
2021 Nominees, Cont’d:
• Kaye Bentley, Asheville Rooftop Bar Tours
• Lauren moody, Fox and Beaux, LLC
• Leslie Blaylock, Lakeview Putt and Play, LLC
• Maggye Diaz, Twin Field Flowers
• Monica Rousseau, Realty One Group Pivot
• Rachel Dudasik, Wicked Weed Brewing Company
• Sadrah Schadel, No Evil Foods
• Vanessa Salomo, Westmoreland & Scully, LLC
• Daphne Kirkwood, idaph events
• Rhonda Woodbery, Worley, Woodbery & Associates
• Carolyn Roy, Biscuit Head
AWARDS PRESENTATION
Outstanding Woman in Nonprofit Leadership
presented by TD Bank
Recognizing a woman who exhibits leadership in the
nonprofit arena and who has demonstrated commitment to
advancing women in her organization and the community.
2021 Nominees:
• Barbara Chambers, Mercy Urgent Care
• Clara Curtis, North Carolina Arboretum
• Carolyn Ward, Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
• Dawn Chavez, Asheville Greenworks
• Felicia Hipp, MAHEC
• Gabriel Guyton, Verner Center for Early Learning
• Marianne Martinez, Vecinos Farmworker
Health Program
• Marielle DeJong, Friends of the Smokies
• McKenzie Dillingham, MG Dillingham Construction
• Meredith Switzer, Homeward Bound of WNC
• Miriam Schwarz, Western Carolina Medical Society
• Pamela Myers, Asheville Art Museum
• Rosario Villarreal, YMCA of Western North Carolina
• Shaunda Sandford, City of Asheville Housing Authority
• Stephanie Hickling Beckman, Different Strokes
Performing Arts Collective
• Stephanie Moore, Center for Craft
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Here’s to those who look at things differently.
Those whose novel ideas command respect.
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LEADERS IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Tracey Greene-Washington
Tracey Greene-Washington is the president of Indigo
Innovation Group, a consulting firm dedicated to serving
as a thought-partner and consultant to organizations
committed to accelerating change through system-level
approaches, equity, and strategic collaboration. She is also
the founder of CoThinkk, a social change philanthropy
committed to shifting the economic mobility, leadership,
health and wellbeing, and education narrative of
communities of color in Western NC.
AWARD PRESENTATION
Rising Star Award
presented by Western Carolina University
This award recognizes a young woman under the age of 35
who has distinguished herself as a leader and role model to
other young women.
2021 Nominees:
• Carolina Sweeney, The Sherwin Williams Company
• Taylor Bell, Colton Groome & Company
• Sydney Monshaw, Asheville Habitat for Humanity
• Lindsey Barr, Blue Ridge Hiking Company
• Katie Cornwell, Hulsey Media
• Jennifer Currier, Wicked Weed Brewing
• Courtney King, Hi-Wire Brewing
LEADERS IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Aisha Adams, Aisha Adams Media Group
Aisha Adams currently serves as the Program Developer of
the Lenoir-Rhyne Equity & Diversity Institute. She is also the
founder and CEO of Aisha Adams Media Group and Equity
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AWARD PRESENTATION
Woman Executive of the Year
presented by MAHEC
Recognizing a woman who has distinguished herself in her
workplace and her profession and who has demonstrated
commitment to fostering growth and development of
women by sharing guidance and professional skills.
2021 Nominees:
• Anna Walz, Everyday Health Professional
• Rayna Lintin, Virtelle Hospitality
• Harli Palme, Parsec Financial
• Joseline Mielke, Urban Cider Company
• Rita Watson, Gaia Herbs
• Melissa Leavell, Ingles Markets
• Stacia Harris, Buncombe County Schools
• Katie Button, Katie Button Restaurants
• Heather Johnson, Kudzu Brands
• Miranda Bowman, Asheville Outlets
LEADERS IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Zurilma Anuel, Director
Western Women’s Business Center
Originally from Caracas-Venezuela, Zurilma moved to
Asheville, NC in 1998. She is the Director of the Western
Women’s Business Center and previously the Latino
Program Director for Carolina Small Business Development
Fund ( CSBDF). Zuri also is the founder of a non-profit
organization “ReliefBox” that provides humanitarian aid for
people of Venezuela that are in need of dry goods, medicine
and toiletries.CELEBRATES WOMEN LEADERS IN
ATHLETICS, ACADEMICS AND ALL AREAS OF LIFE
WITH A SPECIAL RECOGNITION FOR WOMANUP NOMINEE
Janet R. Cone
Senior Administrator for University Enterprises
& Director of Athletics
A true coach and champion at heart, Janet R. Cone has served as UNC Asheville’s
Director of Athletics since 2004.
As the Senior Administrator for University
Enterprises, Cone led the opening of
the Wilma M. Sherrill Center and the
expansion of the Karl Straus Track Facility,
as well as the addition of Women’s
Swimming and Women’s Golf as the
Bulldogs’ 15th and 16th sports programs.
She also helped create the Asheville
Buncombe Regional Sports Commission
and is a former chair. She currently serves
as a founding board member for the
group.
From 2014 to 2019 Cone was the only
woman serving on the NCAA Division I
Men’s Basketball Committee that selects
and seeds the teams for March Madness.
She was one of just 28 Directors of Athletics to be named as an Under Armour
AD of the Year in 2013 by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of
Athletics. She was honored as a I-AAA ADA 2019 Builders’ Award Recipient for her
many accomplishments in College Athletics, and she was selected to serve on the
Division I-AAA Athletics Directors Association (D1-AAA-ADA) Executive Committee
from 2020-21.
Congratulations, AD Cone and Go Bulldogs!
uncabulldogs.comAWARDS PRESENTATION
Suzanne DeFerie Lifetime Achievement Award
presented by First Bank
Named in honor of Suzanne DeFerie, this award recognizes
a woman who has distinguished herself in business over
a lifetime. Throughout her 40-year career in the financial
services industry, Suzanne was a trail blazer, providing both
organizational and community leadership and mentoring
to other women. A native of Western North Carolina and
graduate of Appalachian State University, Suzanne joined
Asheville Savings Bank in 1991 as Chief Financial Officer
- the bank’s first female executive, moving into the role of
President/CEO in 2008. At the time, she was one of only
two female bank CEO’s in North Carolina. In 2017, when
Asheville Savings Bank merged with First Bank, Suzanne
became EVP & Regional president for First Bank’s Western
Region, retiring from the position in fall 2019.
2021 Nominees:
• Becky Anderson, Advisor for The Blue Ridge Parkway
Foundation
• Janet R. Cone, Director of Athletics and University
Enterprises at UNC Asheville
• Linda McDaniel, Executive Director of ARC of Buncombe
County
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Mirna Valerio
Mirna Valerio is a native of Brooklyn, NY, a former educator,
cross-country coach, ultramarathoner, and author of
the Amazon bestselling memoir, A Beautiful Work in
Progress. Although she began running in high school, she
recommitted to the sport after a health scare in 2008 and
started her blog Fatgirlrunning—about her experiences as
a larger woman in a world of thinner endurance athletes—
while training for her first marathon. Mirna’s athletic story
has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Runner’s
World, on NBC Nightly News, CNN, and in the viral REI-
produced documentary short, The Mirnavator. Her writing
has been featured in Women’s Running Magazine, Self
Magazine Online, Outside Online, and Runner’s World
Magazine. In 2018, she was chosen as a National Geographic
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planning committee
Anne McClintic, MAHEC
Carol Steen, Biltmore Farms, LLC
Cat Ford-Coates, Studio 828
Drue Ray, SimplyHome
Heather Johnson, Kudzu Brands
Jill Sparks, A-B Tech
Katie Wadington, USA Today
Lakievia Johnson
Laura Herndon, UNC Asheville
Laura Webb, Webb Investment Services, Inc.
Laurin Yoder, Arby’s/Brumit Restaurant Group
Melissa Duong, First Horizon Bank
Meredith Switzer, Homeward Bound
Mitzi Reed, First Bank
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