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2023 Honorees

Michael Bronfein
Curio Wellness

Sen. Benjamin Cardin
U.S. Senate

Joan Develin Coley
McDaniel College (President Emerita)

Joan Carter Conway
Maryland Senate (Retired)

Memo Diriker
StratACUMEN

Wanda Queen Draper
Reginald Lewis Museum

Steven Edwards
Edwards Performance Solutions

The Honorable James Eyler
Maryland Appellate Court

Robert Gallo
UMB Institute of Human Virology

Jan H. Gardner
Frederick County Executive (retired)

Sheldon Glass
Baymark Health Services

Sheldon Goldseker
Goldseker Foundation

Janice Goldwater
Paths for Families

Shelly Gross-Wade
Prince George’s Financial Services Corp.

Ana Sol Gutierrez
Maryland House of Delegates (Retired)

Ellen Hemmerly
bwtech@UMBC Research and Technology Park

Harry Holt Jr.
BITHGROUP Technologies

Denise Koch
WJZ -TV

Andrew Levy
Brown Goldstein Levy

Ellen MacKenzie
JHU Bloomberg School of Public Health

Delbert Parks III
Sinclair

Steve Phillips
Phillips Foods

Bruce Plaxen
Plaxen Adler Muncy

Leslie Simmons
LifeBridge Health

Robert Waldman
Venable LLP

Michael Wilmot
Wilmot Modular Structures

Linda Woolf
Goodell DeVries

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