On Tuesday, March 16, the Center for Academic and Professional Success (CAPS) will host the third annual Wonder Woman panel from 5-6:30 p.m. The virtual event, hosted in partnership with H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship, Office of Student Leadership and Civic Engagement and the Women’s Success Series, will feature a panel of six powerful women who are considered wonder women in their fields.
The panelists will have the opportunity to share their stories and talk about their experiences of being successful women in their various industries. Neimah Butler, the assistant director of employee relations in the Center for Academic and Professional Success, explained that although the event takes place during Women’s History Month and focuses on women empowerment, all students can benefit from attending the event.
Butler said, “Even if you are a man, these may be career paths that you are interested in. What stops [the panelists] stories from helping the next students regardless of identity? It’s not inclusive to just our female students.”
This year, the panelists include…
- Caitlin Beck Stella, MPH, the chief executive officer of Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital
- Yolanda Cash Jackson, Esq., a shareholder in Becker & Poliakoff
- Jennifer Cerami, the vice president of IDN Sales for Medline Industries, Inc.
- Ruth LLanos-Vos, the associate product manager for Ultimate Software
- Juliet Murphy Roulhac, Esq., the director of Corporate External Affairs for Florida Power & Light Company
- Tina Diehl, the vice president of Car Sales at Enterprise Holdings
Regardless of gender or identification, all undergraduate NSU students are eligible to be nominated for the Wonder Women Award, and the winners of which will be announced at the event. The winners will be selected based on a list of qualities including leadership, academic excellence and career focus, community service, integrity/ethics and women’s empowerment. Nominations can be made by a current NSU student, staff or faculty member by submitting a form at nova.edu/wonderwomennominations. The deadline for nominations is March 1, 2021 at 11:59 p.m.
Butler explained that the award recognizes exceptional students who embody all of the characteristics of a wonder woman.
She said, “Our students do a plethora of things, not just making good grades, but also being actively involved on campus, and I think this award highlights that. It highlights that ‘renaissance student.’ They aren’t just focussing on academics. They are focused on leadership. They are focussed on service. They are focussed on integrity.”
When asked what being a wonder woman meant to her, the runner up for last year’s award, Samantha Aessa, said, “In the beginning I thought [a wonder woman] was someone who has already made a change, someone that has already made a difference, but it’s actually someone who has the potential or the drive or even just the dream to make a difference. To be a wonder woman is to be someone who has a dream to make a difference in the world and to make it even just 1% better.”
To register for the event via Zoom, visit https://nova.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtdOirqTwoE9BlM8L73SJ-0kL-Rw6r8j1G.
For more information, contact (954) 262-7990 or caps@nova.edu.
