This award was created by the Association of American Schools in Mexico (ASOMEX),  to honor the memory and legacy of Emma Gutierrez de Salazar, who served as the General Director of the American School of Tampico.  Emma was a visionary leader who worked relentlessly to improve education in our region. The award is funded annually by ASOMEX and is  set up to support women in achieving educational leadership roles.
 
Applicants must be women who are host country nationals from a Tri-Association regular member school. The committee will award up to 4,000.00 USD for the selected applicant to take a course at the Principals’ Training Center in Florida, or participate in course work from an accredited university in the United States.
 
Please join me in congratulating Karla Moya, Rocio Acevedo de la Garza and Sheila Escobedo de Morales, our winners from the past few years. 
 
2019: awarded to Karla Moya, a special education teacher from Country Day School in Costa Rica. This was presented to her at the Tri conference in 2019 but because of the pandemic she has only just recently completed the training. As we missed a year, we offered her the chance to travel to Rome this past summer for the PTC … she was so happy!
 
2020: won by Rocio Acevedo de la Garza of American School of Tampico. She knows that she has won and is planning to attend PTC next summer. She will attend the Tri-Association conference in Panama in September to receive this award.
 
2021: no award was presented due to the pandemic. 
 
2022: won by Sheila Escobedo de Morales from Colegio Decroly Americano in Guatemala. She knows that she has won and is planning to attend PTC next summer. She will attend the Tri-Association conference in Panama in September to receive this award.