(Florida Weekly March 3, 2022) Greater Naples Leadership has named Sandy Parker, a graduate of GNL Masters Class X, as the 2022 recipient of its annual Distinguished Leadership Award in acknowledgment of her efforts to provide non-partisan information and issue-based education to Florida voters via several avenues of communication. Ms. Parker is the first DLA honoree to represent the public sector in many years.
Having launched her website and companion blog, Sparkers Soapbox, in 2010, Ms. Parker’s extensive monthly roundup of government news concerning Florida’s legislature, governor, cabinet, and courts, and a second monthly summary focusing exclusively on Collier County government now reach an audience of approximately 2,200 readers. She also writes and publishes two separate voter guides each election season for state and local candidates that address various referenda on the ballot.