Awards

  • 2024 Storytelling World Resource Honor Award | “Overcoming Fear with Help From the Whales” published in ANIMALS: Personal Tales of Encounters With Spirit Animals by Sacred Stories Publishing
  • 2023 National Federation of Press Women Professional Communications Contest | Web and Social Media – Personal Website: First Place
  • 2023 National Federation of Press Women Professional Communications Contest | Writing – Personal Essay: Honorable Mention, “Overcoming Fear With Help from the Whales”
  • 2023 Connecticut Press Club Communications Contest | Photographer-Writer: First Place, “Not Dead Yet” and Third Place, “Lucidity is Key”
  • 2023 Connecticut Press Club Communications Contest | Speech: Second Place, “Clearance for Takeoff” and Third Place, “Love Through the Tides of Time”
  • 2023 Connecticut Press Club Communications Contest | Speech: Honorable Mention, “Seek and You Shall Not Find”
  • 2023 Connecticut Press Club Communications Contest | Blog (Personal): Honorable Mention, “Setting Boundaries Gains Big Results”
  • 2022 Connecticut Press Club Communications Contest | Personal Essay: First Place, “Overcoming Fear With help from the Whales”
  • 2022 Connecticut Press Club Communications Contest | Personal Website: First Place
  • 2022 Connecticut Press Club Communications Contest | Speeches: Second “A.R.T.: Action, Reflection, Transformation” and Third Place “Art Saved My Life: Journey of a Lifetime”
  • Versatile Blogger Award | Writing: Fairfield Writer’s Blog (with Alex McNab)
  • Harvard Medical School | Writing: Honorable Mention for Best Manuscript Proposal
  • Sausalito Consciousness Research Laboratory | Only CT healing practitioner selected for first scientific pilot study on distant healing and AIDS | featured in book, Infinite Grace.
  • Stamford Art Association | Art: First, Second, Third, and Honorable Mention
  • American Corporate Identity Association | Graphic Design: Le Spa Ltd. and Adair Design
  • Marquis Who’s Who | The World’s Who’s Who of Women; in American Education; in Advertising; and in Emerging Leaders of America
  • Connecticut Library Association public relations award (with Pequot Library) for electronic media and print media
  • Connecticut Magazine, “Experts Name Seven Artists Who Are Good Investments”
  • National American Paper Box and Packaging award of excellence (with C.R. Gibson)
  • Connecticut Office of the Arts Artist Grant | Art: Alternative Photography (1978 Connecticut Commission on the Arts)
Photograph by Callalily Studios
Photograph by Arne Heitmann