The Network of Executive Women recently awarded over $17,000 in scholarships to local women who are pursuing non-traditional higher education goals. From left: recipients Sharlim Gonzalez, Dianeysi Zapada, Melissa Zapata, Tatiana Jackson and Leidy Cubillos. Recipient Shirley Edwards is not pictured. Photo courtesy of NEW.
The Network of Executive Women, which is based in Milford, recently awarded over $17,000 in scholarships to local women who are pursuing non-traditional higher education goals.
Recipients are working toward degrees in a variety of fields, including nursing, pediatric oncology, public health, physical therapy and social work. The awards are made to adult women, not high school students.
In the past two decades, NEW has awarded more than $200,000 to adult women.
To be eligible, applicants needed to: reside in or attend a post-secondary education program in New Haven or Fairfield counties; demonstrate financial need; have had an interruption of their education; and be returning, continuing or commencing undergraduate schooling or other types of training to further their educational goals and/or enhance job skills.
The recipients were Sharlim Gonzalez, Dianeysi Zapada, Melissa Zapata, Tatiana Jackson, Leidy Cubillos and Shirley Edwards.
Several of the scholarships awarded were named to honor former and notable members of NEW. This includes the Harriet Cohen Haggerty Memorial Scholarship, named in honor of Harriet Cohen Haggerty with funds donated by the Milford Regional Chamber of Commerce, the Donna Marino Memorial Scholarship, named in honor of Donna Marino with funds donated by the Marino family, and Phyllis Holt whose scholarship is funded by NEW to honor her as one of the trailblazers for the organization.
For more information about NEW, visit networkofexecutivewomen.org.