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✨ Introducing: Women of Excellence Leadership Award Honoree: Cherry Hill Mayor Susan Shin Angulo! ✨ Throughout her career, while Susan Shin Angulo was breaking glass ceilings and knocking down barriers, she regularly channeled the voice of her late father. “My dad always said nothing is impossible,” says Susan, who is the first Asian American female mayor in Cherry Hill – and New Jersey. “When I was younger, I’d shoot back ‘What are you talking about, Dad, so many things are impossible.’ But when I got into politics, I slowly started believing that.” Her own immigration story – set in motion when her father fled communist North Korea for South Korea as a child – laid the groundwork. She was 4 when her family immigrated to Philadelphia in 1974. “They barely knew a word of English, barely had a dime to their name but they had dreams and aspirations and they worked very, very hard,” says Susan. She studied science in college, earned an advanced degree in cytogenetics and then worked i...

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