2023 Management Scholarship Winners Introduced by the Optical Girls’s Affiliation

(PRESS RELEASE) DALLAS, TX – The Optical Girls’s Affiliation (OWA) is proud to announce the 2023 Management Scholarship awardees. Recipients are acknowledged as OWA members who’ve served the group with their devoted committee work, service, and dedication to rising management roles for girls within the optical business. The grants, valued at as much as $2,000 every, shall be used to supply skilled mentoring alternatives to every recipient, whereas persevering with to advertise OWA’s founding rules of connecting, inspiring, and main girls within the optical business. The OWA particularly thanks its Particular person Contributors who make it doable to supply these scholarships; due to their beneficiant donations, three girls, chosen from the nominations put forth in October 2023, will obtain particular management coaching. They’re: 

• Katherine Cruz, OWA Connection & Enrichment Committee (Silhouette) 
• Mary Lanning Jones, OWA Connection & Enrichment Committee (Zyloware) 
• Shelley Logan, OWA Membership Committee (WestGroupe) 

A further twelve scholarships shall be awarded as the results of a recently-added profit for the OWA’s  Platinum Sponsors: every firm was requested to decide on an distinctive feminine worker who reveals  promise, dedication, and drive, to additionally obtain this skilled alternative. The twelve girls acknowledged  by their firms to be OWA scholarship recipients are: 

• Heather Bethel, Supervisor, Lens and Equipment Merchandising (Nationwide Imaginative and prescient) • Monica Chopra, Senior Enterprise Knowledge Analyst (VSP Imaginative and prescient) 
• Reagan Colpitts, Senior Enterprise Growth Supervisor, N.A. Unbiased Channel (Safilo) • Liz Friedfeld, Head of Enterprise Growth (ClearVision) 
• Lila Hanish, Advertising and marketing Affiliate (Thelios) 
• April Hatten, Operations Supervisor/Eye Care Alliance (Essilor Devices) 
• Kristen Lukacs, Inventive Supervisor (Zyloware) 
• Carly Meyerson, Strategic Enterprise Supervisor, U.S. Imaginative and prescient Care (Bausch+Lomb) • Stephanie McCoy, Senior Supervisor, EyeMed Supplier Expertise (EssilorLuxottica) • Tracy Neal, Director of Buyer Help (GPN Applied sciences) 
• Chrissie Pattison, Advertising and marketing Occasions Supervisor (Advancing Eyecare) 
• Lindsay Romah, Enterprise Growth Lead (EssilorLuxottica) 

OWA president Lorie Lippiatt OD shared: “2023 has been one other landmark yr for each the OWA and girls all through the optical business. As a result of our Particular person Contributors and Sponsors proceed to display their perception in our mission, the OWA, by way of the Management Scholarship Award program, is proud to supply avenues which put together girls for management roles on the highest ranges. 

The various roles and obligations held by our proficient checklist of achievers is one other shining instance of how the OWA helps ALL girls within the business who’re enthusiastic about furthering their skilled and private improvement. On behalf of the Optical Girls’s Affiliation, congratulations to the 2023 Management Scholarship Award winners. We’re pleased with your achievements and sit up for seeing you prosper for years to return!”