Our Illuminated Woman of the Year Spark award has been truly inspired. Many people have contributed their generous support and vision to Illuminated Woman. One woman in particular is Alison Bleak Sparks, whom the Spark award is named after. Alison has bold courage to live life fully. Her humor, talent and pure joy instantaneously lights up a room. She is a no-nonsense kind of woman who does what ever it takes to reach her goals. Nothing gets in her way.
Last year she and I talked about events we would do to empower women and create communities of empowered women; these communities would change the world. These communities would make the difference for millions.
Alison’s life was cut short due to complications from a brain tumor and in April 2009 she passed away, before she could see the fruition of Illuminated Woman. So it is her memory that we honor women for years and generations to come, to carry forth her spirit and commitment to live an illuminated life. Her vision and energy is in every aspect of Illuminated Woman and it is with great honor that we carry on her tradition with our Illuminated Woman of the Year Spark award. This inaugural award will be given on August 29 during the awards gala of the 2009 Ignite Your Spark Annual Conference. Also in Alison’s honor, will be our Spark Scholarships that will be awarded in spring 2010.
So Alison, the Spark Award and Spark Scholarships are dedicated to you. For your light, your strength, never complaining once – EVER. Thank you for being a light in this world.
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