Cindy Green-Deutsch (left) leans on her friend Meropi Matarangas as she realizes that she is the 2022 recipient of the Athena Award Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022, during the Athena and Women of Accomplishment Award reception at the Barsema Alumni and Visitors Center at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. (Mark Busch - mbusch@shawmedia.com/Mark Busch - mbusch@shawmedia.co)
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