73^rd Annual Honor Award Recipients

Group Gold Medal – Personal and Professional Excellence

Michael Rosales, Juanita Harthun, Dan Kim, Derrick Small, Ana Paula Vila, Naz Demirdoven, Sandra Hernandez, Saad Ahmed, Feng Tan, Yu Ohashi

For developing breakthrough strategies to find new and effective ways of achieving the agency’s mission and helping the global automotive industry via their revolutionary “Back 2 Business - Vistual B2B Auto Expo".

Group Gold Medal – Personal and Professional Excellence

Joseph Flynn, Adam Vaccaro, Eric Longnecker, John Cobau, William Hamby-Hopkins, Adrienne Frazier, Elizabeth Abraham

For implementing the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act, which enhanced the national security by revamping the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and expanding its jurisdiction over foreign investments.

Group Gold Medal – Personal and Professional Excellence

Jennifer Boger, Benjamin Carlson, David Edmiston, Mona Musa, Jennifer Loffredo, Michael Marangell, Aliza Totayo, Glenn Kaminsky

For coordination of ITA’s support of both U.S. industry and USG partners during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Group Gold Medal – Personal and Professional Excellence

Geri Word, Alexis Rigoberto Tercero-Chacón, David Olsen, Eric Olson, Paul V. Oliva, Dawn Bruno, Braeden Young, Marixell Garcia, Nicole DeSilvis Prado, Scott Kennedy

For excellence in leadership and management in addressing U.S.-Mexico supply chain disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Group Gold Medal – Personal and Professional Excellence

Jason Travis Mosier, Matthew Quigley, Jason Chang, Jackie Hong, Andrew Gately, Simon Kim, Seth Isenberg, Priscilla Baek

For efforts to secure a $12 billion dollar investment by TSMC to construct a state-of-the art semiconductor manufacturing facility in Arizona.

Group Silver Medal – Personal and Professional Excellence

Julie Al-Saadawi, Julia Hancock, Bhargav Desai, Alis Asadurian, Derek King, Kamila Khamidova, LiHong Russo, Hugh Smachlo, Elisabeth Urfer, Jessica Link

For creating new regulations and modernizing Commerce’s steel import-monitoring system, providing the U.S. industry with a potent tool to help identify potential transshipment and circumvention of Commerce’s antidumping and countervailing duty orders that protect American businesses and workers from unfairly traded foreign products.

Group Silver Medal – Personal and Professional Excellence

Chris Rasmussen, Julian Richards, Amanda Reynolds

For enabling policy makers to accurately gauge the cost of making the ICTS supply chain more secure.

Group Silver Medal – Personal and Professional Excellence

Elizabeth Clark, Scott Kennedy, Jeffrey Williams, Katrice Kelly, Glenn Kaminsky, Alexandra Chaffin

For providing advice on the implementation of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement to the Interagency Committee on Trade in Automotive Goods.

Group Silver Medal – Personal and Professional Excellence

Judy Kornfeld, Jessica Gordon, Amina Brock, Richard Swanson, Joan Morgan, Ryan Rhodes, Chris Damm, Cathy Feig, Yazmin Rojas, Carey Arun

For developing and coordinating the Department’s first-ever women’s global trade empowerment forum in a six-part livestreamed series, which attracted 1800+ registrants.

Group Silver Medal – Personal and Professional Excellence

Brittany Banta, Robyn Garfield, Tshanda Kalombo, Cameron Werker, Patrice Williams, Aaron Held, Damjan Bencic, Moritz von Holst, Jonathan Chesebro, Benjamin Carlson

For strengthening US economic national security by leveraging greater interagency coordination to assist US firms competing against Chinese and Russian firms in two strategic sectors in Europe.

Group Silver Medal – Personal and Professional Excellence

Mike Calvert, Giancarlo Cavallo, Maria Luisa Escudero, Barbara Farrar, Andrew Glass, Heather Helm, Desi Jordanoff, Stephanie Smedile, Fred Stewart, Tricia Van Orden

For implementing a transformative improvement to whole-of-government support for U.S. companies competing for business opportunities overseas.

Organizational Silver Medal – Organizational Development

The Diversity and Inclusion Working Group

For building the strong foundation on which ITA’s Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) program will continue to grow.

Group Silver Medal – Organizational Development

Terri L. Batch, Jasmine P. Braswell, Derrick Small

For providing courage and commitment to improve inclusion and community in the ITA.

Group Silver Medal – Customer Service

Jeff Okun-Kozlowicki, Julie Geiger, Paul Morris, Vidya Desai, Garrett Peterson, Greg Adel, Thomas Shorts, Chad Root, Evangeline Keenan, Michele Lynch

For creating an online platform to manage Free Trade Agreement (FTA)disputes.

Individual Silver Medal – Administrative/Technical Support

Jennifer Moats

For the extraordinary initiative, leadership, technical expertise, creativity, and commitment in developing a cost-saving, data-management tool for AD/CVD cases.