Cloud Girls, the nonprofit consortium of women evangelizing the cloud, teamed with the Alliance of Channel Women to recognize the winners of the third annual Cloud Girls Rising Awards at the Channel Partners Conference & Expo in Las Vegas, April 19, 2018.

These awards were created to honor women in the telecom and IT channel who have show leadership and innovation in the emerging cloud space as well as to inspire more women to step forward and follow their example.

Here, Maggie Miller, content marketing director for Channel Futures, talks with Jeanine Sicinski, partner experience manager, RapidScale, who took home the title of “Rising Star,” given to an up-and-comer in the cloud community who has shown initiative in advancing cloud and next-gen technology solutions for her organization, customers and the industry.