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Teenworks Awarded the Community Leader – Organization Award at Celebrating Excellence Awards

TeenWorksTM an affinity group of United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley, was awarded the Community Leader – Organization Award for 2020 at the Celebrating Excellence Awards presented by the Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA).

Since 2005, PSEA’s Celebrating Excellence Awards Dinner honors winners of the PSEA Adler Friend of Education Award and the PSEA Human and Civil Rights Awards.

PSEA hosts the dinner each year to provide a special opportunity to recognize individuals, local associations and organizations going the extra mile for our schools and communities. This annual celebration has not been held since 2019 due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Pictured are members of the TeenWorks Board, who made the trip to Gettysburg, as well as officers of the PSEA.

Additional awards recipients:

Human and Civil Rights Awards

  • Educational Leader Award – Sue Mulvey – Crawford Central Education Association
  • Student Leader Award – Maeve Yanes
  • Community Leader Award – Organization – TeenWorks
  • Community Leader Award – Individual – Gisele Fetterman
  • Adler Friend of Education Award – Jay Costa, Pennsylvania State Senator
  • Presidential Award – Marylou Stefanko
Maeve Yanes, Teen Chair of TeenWorks and Anne Radakovits, Adult Chair of TeenWorks accepted the award on behalf of TeenWorks.