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Mayor’s Pioneer Award — Sheila Duffy-Lehrman, Tropic Survival Advertising & Marketing

Sheila Duffy-Lehram is known for her work in advertising and marketing. Lehrman is the COO and creative director of Tropic Survival Advertising and Marketing. The company, which has won many broadcast and design awards, works with local, regional and national clients, including La-Z-Boy, CometAds and Pediatric Associates. The company develops marketing and branding strategies.

As COO and creative director, Duffy-Lehrman oversees the company’s execution ----

And in 2011, she was named to the Business Leader Mover and Shaker List.


what do you do as coo and creative director of tropic survival advertising?
What are your main goals with the business
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what did you start off as
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what other awards have you won
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Arts & Entertainment – Kalyn Chapman James, Art Loft and the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts

Tmrw @ 9 am: 786.468.2243 ---- cell: 786.512.5096

Kalyn Chapman James is an American model and television host, most recently known for her work as the host of Art Loft, a 30-minute show that looks at local and national artists, openings, installations, performances and art organizations. She is also the corporate sponsorship consultant at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts.

Originally from Mobile, Alabama, Chapman James went to the University of Alabama where she got a bachelor of science in psychology and minored in sociology. Chapman James studied dance since she was young and worked as a journalist on the Fox Sports Network’s Show Behind the Game.

In 1994, she competed in the Miss America competition, where she


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What is your biggest accomplishment on the show?
What kinds of things have you done on the show?
What's your role in it?
what work have you done with the adrienne arsht center for the performing arts?
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What else are you most proud of?
How did you take this career path?
what was your reaction to finding out you won this award?

http://artloft.cloudaccess.net/about/host.html

Business & Economics — Antoinette Patterson, One World Learning Center

Antoinette Patterson is the president of One World One Learning Center, a domestic nonprofit corporation.
Patterson also

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Education & Research — Malou C. Harrison, Miami Dade College, North Campus
Campus President
Malou C. Harrison
Phone: 305-237-1152
Location: Room 1322
what are your main accomplishments as president of Miami-Dade college’s North Campus?
What are your favorite parts about being a college president
what are you hoping to acocmlpish in the future
how did you feel when you found out you received this award

Government & Law (Elected) — Honorable Bertila Soto, Chief Judge, Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court
https://www.jud11.flcourts.org/juddirdetails.aspx?judgeid=752&sectionid=153
305-349-5720

Bertila Soto, chief judge in the eleventh judicial court of Florida, was election to the position in 2013. In her position, she works as a liason with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

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She acts as liaison with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in all judicial administrative matters and is responsible for the efficient and proper administration of the circuit and county courts. As set forth in Rule 2.050, Rules of Judicial Administration, this includes developing a plan for the prompt disposition of cases; assignment of judges, other court officers and executive assistants; control of dockets; regulation and use of courtrooms; mandatory periodic review of the status of the inmates of the county jail; and, consideration of statistical data. The Chief Judge also enters administrative orders to properly direct the court's day-to-day affairs and appoints committees to serve in an advisory capacity.