MARIANNE TABAR, who receives $10,000, and is 2nd from left in photograph. Marianne, who graduates this month from Benjamin N. Cardozo High School in Bayside, Queens, has already racked up an impressive list of achievements. She completed eight Advanced Placement courses, was listed in the 2001 Who's Who Among American High School Students, was a semifinalist in the 2000 Salomon Smith Barney Quality of Life Research competition and won first prize at the 2000 Healthcare Public Relations and Marketing Society of Greater New York competition. Marianne, who has a passion for women's issues and social reform, recently joined the White House Project. She will enter Barnard College this fall.

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ERIN MONTEIRO has "wanted to be a journalist since my third grade teacher told me I talked too much, asked too many questions, and would one day make a good journalist." Twelve years after this first "mentorship experience," Erin is a rising junior at NYU, where she is a Journalism and Mass Communications double major, and a Politics and Cinema Studies double minor. She has worked at Regis and Kelly, Oxygen, and ABC News; and has just become President of NYU's chapter of Women in Communications. She wants to take the members of this group to a different NYWICI member's company every six weeks, have them listen to a speaker from that company and then enable them to chat with communications professionals from that company over lunch. 
 

JADE SCIPIONI, $10,000, 3rd from left. Jade is a sophomore majoring in Communications at St. John's University. In her spare time, the honors student is very active in her community. She volunteers at an inner-city school in Brooklyn. She also tutors elementary school children and works as a photographer for her school newspaper. Jade, a native of Enola, Pennsylvania, is looking forward to someday pursuing a career in communications. Her dream job would be to become a broadcast journalist and work for a news station.

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TANYA GINGERICH, $10,000, 2nd from right. Tanya, a former dancer and actress, entered Columbia Graduate School of Journalism this summer. While still in her teens, Tanya was a dancer with New York City Ballet. After several years with the ballet company, she left to enter Yale University, where she received her B.A. in Literature with Theater Studies. In her spare time, Tanya loves to read, write and perform. She also volunteers with the 52nd Street Project, working with children from the Hell's Kitchen area. After she completes her studies, Tanya plans to make her mark in cultural and arts journalism.
 

BIANCA JANOSEVIC, a runner-up at $5,000, 3rd from right. Bianca is currently working as an Online Marketing Manager for Time Magazine. This fall, she will enter Columbia Graduate School of Business to study Media Management and Finance. Bianca was born and raised in Yugoslavia, and moved to New York with her family when she was 7 years old. She graduated from Stuyvesant High School and received her B.A. from Harvard.
 

JODI L. GOLD, runner-up at $5,000, 4th from right. Jodi is currently attending Columbia Graduate School of Business, studying for her MBA in Marketing. Since graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in English, she has worked for an impressive list of top companies, including American Express, the Sterling Group, J.P. Morgan and Estee Lauder. After she receives her MBA, Jodi hopes to go to work for a nonprofit organization or pharmaceutical company that assists families and victims of HIV/AIDS.