2026 Winner
Stephanie Leitz, Principal, Wahkiakum High, Wahkiakum School District
OLYMPIA –– Stephanie Leitz is the fifth winner of AWSP’s Annalee Braley Membership Award. Her devotion to mentoring fellow leaders, her support of student leaders through the Association of Washington Student Leaders (AWSL), and her involvement in regional PLC work demonstrates why she so perfectly honors and carries forward Annalee’s legacy. Stephanie has been an AWSP member since 2012. She is currently principal at Wahkiakum High School in Wahkiakum School District, serving approximately 128 students in grades 9-12 and their families.
Stephanie was presented with the 2026 Annalee Braley Membership Award during AWSP’s annual PALLY Award Ceremony at the spring 2026 Grade Level Leadership Committee meeting in Leavenworth.
About the Award
Created in 2022, the Annalee Braley Membership Award is given to a current or former member who shares the same unwavering and long-term dedication to AWSP, the same commitment to making our organization the strongest in the country, the same passion for supporting our members, the same dedication to advocating for principals, and the same willingness to support AWSP any time and any where.
About Annalee
Annalee started working for AWSP in 1989 at 19 years old. She worked for AWSP for 32 years before passing away suddenly in 2021. This award commemorates her contributions to AWSP and the impact she made to countless members across the state.
Past Winners
- 2025 | Raenette “Rae” Sasaki Wood
- 2024 |Â Cindy Sholtys-Cromwell
- 2023 | Carlos Gonzalez
- 2022 | Jim Eisenhardt
