{"id":2107,"date":"2024-05-10T12:04:46","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T17:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/?page_id=2107"},"modified":"2025-07-14T14:42:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T19:42:21","slug":"awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/adairheitmann.com\/cmswp\/?page_id=2107","title":{"rendered":"Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2025 National Federation of Press Women Professional Communications Contest<\/strong> | Speeches: Honorable Mention, &#8220;This Little Light of Mine\u201c<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2024 Storytelling World Resource Honor Award<\/strong> | \u201cOvercoming Fear with Help From the Whales\u201d published in <a href=\"https:\/\/bitly.com\/cs_animals\"><strong><em>ANIMALS: Personal Tales of Encounters With Spirit Animals<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by Sacred Stories Publishing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2024 Connecticut Press Club Communications Contest<\/strong> | Speeches: First Place, &#8220;This Little Light of Mine&#8221; and Third Place, &#8220;Beginning Again&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2024 Connecticut Press Club Communications Contest<\/strong> | Creative Verse (Single Poem): Second Place, <em>Orenaug Mountain Publishing<\/em> &#8212; &#8220;Land of My Home&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2024 Connecticut Press Club Communications Contest<\/strong> | Personal Website: Second Place, Adair Heitmann and Kiana Stockwell &#8212; Adair Wilson Heitmann, BFA website<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2023 National Federation of Press Women Professional Communications Contest<\/strong> | Web and Social Media \u2013 Personal Website: First Place<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2023 National Federation of Press Women Professional Communications Contest<\/strong> | Writing \u2013 Personal Essay: Honorable Mention, &#8220;Overcoming Fear With Help from the Whales&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2023 Connecticut Press Club Communications Contest<\/strong> | Photographer-Writer: First Place, &#8220;Not Dead Yet&#8221; and Third Place, &#8220;Lucidity is Key&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2023 Connecticut Press Club Communications Contest<\/strong> | Speech: Second Place, &#8220;Clearance for Takeoff&#8221; and Third Place, &#8220;Love Through the Tides of Time&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2023 Connecticut Press Club Communications Contest<\/strong> | Speech: Honorable Mention, &#8220;Seek and You Shall Not Find&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2023 Connecticut Press Club Communications Contest<\/strong> | Blog (Personal): Honorable Mention, &#8220;Setting Boundaries Gains Big Results&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2022 Connecticut Press Club Communications Contest<\/strong> | Personal Essay: First Place, &#8220;Overcoming Fear With help from the Whales&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2022 Connecticut Press Club Communications Contest<\/strong> | Personal Website: First Place<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2022 Connecticut Press Club Communications Contest<\/strong> | Speeches: <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/731912213\"><strong>Second<\/strong><\/a> &#8220;A.R.T.: Action, Reflection, Transformation&#8221; and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pechakucha.com\/presentations\/adairs-presentation-736\">Third Place<\/a><\/strong> &#8220;Art Saved My Life: Journey of a Lifetime&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/fairfieldwriter.wordpress.com\/page\/9\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Versatile Blogger Award<\/a><\/strong> | Writing: <em>Fairfield Writer&#8217;s Blog<\/em> (with Alex McNab)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Harvard Medical School<\/strong> | Writing: Honorable Mention for Best Manuscript Proposal<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Sausalito Consciousness Research Laboratory<\/strong> | Only CT healing practitioner selected for first scientific pilot study on distant healing and AIDS | featured in book, <em>Infinite Grace<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Stamford Art Association<\/strong> | Art: First, Second, Third, and Honorable Mention<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>American Corporate Identity Association<\/strong> | Graphic Design: Le Spa Ltd. and Adair Design<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Marquis Who&#8217;s Who<\/strong> | <em>The World&#8217;s Who&#8217;s Who of Women<\/em>; in <em>American Education<\/em>; in <em>Advertising<\/em>; and in <em>Emerging Leaders of America<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Connecticut Library Association <\/strong>public relations award (with Pequot Library) for electronic media and print media<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><strong>Connecticut Magazine<\/strong><\/em>, &#8220;Experts Name Seven Artists Who Are Good Investments&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>National American Paper Box and Packaging<\/strong> award of excellence (with C.R. 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