The LIVE YOUR DREAM AWARD application period runs from August 15th to November 15th. This award supports education and training for women.
LIVE YOUR DREAM AWARD: EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR WOMEN
The Live Your Dream Award supports education and training for women. Applications are available from August 1st online at: https://www.soroptimist.org/our-work/live-your-dream-awards/index.html. The deadline for applications is November 15, 2025.
The funds are given to the awardee and may be used for any purpose that will help them reach their career and educational goals. This award is to help her enter or re-enter the job market, or to further her skills and training to upgrade her employment status. If you have any questions, you may email LYDA@sisequim.org.
LIVE YOUR DREAM AWARD RECIPIENTS FOR 2026
Carrie Johnson
Carrie Johnson is our top recipient and will receive $3000. Her application has also won one of the Regional prizes in the amount of $1,500. This is the third year SI/Sequim’s winner has received a Regional Award.
Carrie is in an online Bachelors program in Teaching and Education from Western Governor’s University. She is working on two degrees, one in K-8 education, and one in K-12 Special Education.
Carrie is now a Special Education para-educator for the Sequim School District. She is the sole support for the two children she has living at home. She is also very active in the community as a 4-H leader and on boards for the local PTA and a local preschool, and volunteers at a local kids’ summer camp.
She has just a few classes left and one of them is Student Teaching. She cannot work at the school during student teaching, so the Live Your Dream Award will help her pay her bills while she completes her unpaid student teaching.
With that degree, she will be able to give her kids what they need and deserve.
Rachel DeJarnat
Rachel DeJarnat is in the Nursing Program at Peninsula College. She is the sole support for her four children and her husband. He has been ill and currently stays home to care for the kids.
She also works full time at the Life Care Center in Port Townsend. Her goal is to become a nurse in the ER setting, with the ultimate goal of becoming an Anesthesiology nurse or a CRNA.
Her $2000 Live Your Dream Award will help her reach her dream of becoming a nurse and making a significant difference and positive impact on the lives of others.
Kaelyn Davila
Kaelyn Davila is in an online Bachelor’s program in Nursing at Oregon Health and Science University. She is the primary support for her four year old child and her husband provides childcare.
She is currently working full time as an ICU nurse, and feels that the most rewarding part of her job is facilitating death–helping patients and families by outlining expectations and answering their questions.
Her dream is to enter a Master’s Degree Program so she can help reform how palliative care is provided and to to co-op a hospice house with other nurses in Clallam County. Her $1000 award will help her pay for more schooling.