COABE Awards :: Adult Learner of the Year

COABE National Awards

There were many outstanding candidates for our national-level COABE Awards. Congratulations to this year's award, incentive grant, and scholarship winners, representing the best in our field!

Adult Learner of the Year

Margo Hudson, Seeds of Literacy, Ohio

Margo Hudson is passionate about learning. She received her GED in 2012 from Seeds of Literacy in Cleveland, Ohio, after 11 years of diligent preparation. Since graduating, Margo has tutored twice a week at Seeds, acting as a role model for students like herself. She continues to learn new skills in jewelry making, knitting, duct tape crafts, linedancing, candy making and music lessons for keyboard. She is an avid reader and works closely with an outreach ministry to young African-American men.

Margo is a very vocal champion for the power of adult learning. She works as a housekeeper at the United Club at Cleveland Hopkins Airport and has strong relationships with her customers, many of whom are high powered business people from around the country and the world. Through Margo, many of them have heard about how her life was changed through literacy. They have invited her to speak on their radio programs, written about her for publications, collected books and supplies for students at Seeds, and made donations in her honor.

Margo loves to travel the world with her husband, Dale Hernlund.

Press Releases

•       Margo Hudson Adult Learner of the Year 2016

•       Aurelia Garcia Adult Learner of the Year Runner Up 2016

•       Cung Hnin Adult Learner of the Year Runner Up 2016

•       Elida Tuchez Adult Learner of the Year Runner Up 2016

•       Pablo Carvallo Boschi Adult Learner of the Year Runner Up 2016

•       Patricia Harville Adult Learner of the Year Runner Up 2016

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