Honorees

Joe Jingoli
CEO
Joseph Jingoli & Sons, Atlantic City

Honored for the firm’s signature “Competitive Edge” program as worked at the Hard Rock Café in Atlantic City. The firm reaches out within the community and utilizes service, education and mentorship programs to provide job opportunities to community members.

Marga Metheny
Chair
Cape May Center for the Community Arts

Honored for utilizing the arts to promote and teach the rich black community history of Cape May County. The Center for Community Arts (CCA) is dedicated to discovering, preserving and presenting the African American history of Cape May County. The Program creates annual exhibits including an Underground Railroad trolley tour and the Franklin Street School (an elementary school for Cape May’s African American children in the 1920’s). The program also created panel discussions, presents African American Heritage Walking Tours, and administers the growing John T. and Janet D. Nash Archives of African American History. The CCA was founded in 1995 by 12 women artists and community activists – (6 African American and 6 white) who met around a kitchen table over a six-month period.

Angel Santiago
Fifth Grade Teacher
Loring Flemming Elementary School

Honored for being named the New Jersey State Board of Education 2020-2021 State Teacher of the Year and for facilitating the Young People of Character (YPOC) program. Its mission is to bring together fourth and fifth grade students from all walks of life to serve their communities (e.g. writing letters to veterans for Veterans Day, cleaning up the school grounds for Earth Day, and volunteering during the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service). He is a fifth grade teacher at the Loring Flemming School in Camden County.