Tag: Athena Award

Josephine Lorya, alumna of Odyssey’s Class of 2008, received the 2021 ATHENA Young Professional Award last month from The Business Forum Madison in recognition of her work as a Dane County social worker, multicultural performer, and organizer of donations for her native Sudan. Odyssey encouraged Josephine on her journey to both bachelor’s and master’s degrees …

“Jean Feraca epitomizes the Wisconsin Idea as well as the ideals of the Athena Award,” a nomination letter reads, as “she has demonstrated excellence throughout her career as a broadcast journalist, creativity in her work as an author, initiative in her cofounding of the transformational Odyssey Project and in her work in Wisconsin’s prisons, and …