Association of Marquette University Women & Institute for Women’s Leadership Award Recipients
Event Details:
Association of Marquette University Women & Institute for Women’s Leadership Awards Conferral
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Reception: 5:00 p.m. | Conferral: 5:30 p.m.
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AMUW Mary Neville Bielefeld Award
Jessica A. Koth, Comm ’99
Milwaukee, Wis.
If someone had told Jessica Koth on the day she graduated from Marquette that she would one day work in the funeral service profession, it “would have been the last thing I could have imagined,” she admits. But, today, she loves her role as director of public relations for the National Funeral Directors Association.
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AMUW Nora Finnigan Werra Faculty Achievement Award
Dr. Lisa C. Hanson
Grafton, Wis.
Lisa Hanson, Ph.D., CNM, FACNM, FAAN, is the Klein Professor of Women’s Health Research at Marquette University’s College of Nursing and associate director of the Midwifery Program. She co-founded the midwifery program in 1993 and has served as a faculty member for 32 years.
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AMUW Ignatian Leadership Award
Radhika Prakash, Ed '24
Ballwin, Mo.
Radhika Prakash truly loves working with children, especially those with disabilities. She is currently a Kindergarten teacher in a title 1 school in the city of St. Louis. In the fall, she will be attending Vanderbilt University as a student in the Masters in Early Childhood Special Education Program. She then hopes to earn a Ph.D. in special education so she can speak up for equity in special education. “She is a servant leader in the best sense. Not seeking recognition or power, she goes about life daily with a pleasant disposition and a willingness to serve,” says her nominator Dr. Teodora Cox.
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IWL Excellence Award
Dr. Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen, Grad ’99
Mount Joy, Pa.
While earning her doctorate in history, Dr. Jessica Sheetz-Nguyen spent her summers working in the Marquette Archives and entered the building under a banner that read, “To the Greater Glory of God.” Those words “became my guide for how and why I began my work as a teacher and scholar,” she says.
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