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WIN Names Painter Haylie Colby as Inaugural Founding Mothers Award Recipient

March 30, 2026 By CollisionWeek Editor

The Women’s Industry Network (WIN) has named Haylie Colby, a painter at Nuss Collision Center in East Bethel, Minn., as the first recipient of its Founding Mothers Award.

Haylie Colby was named the first recipient of WIN’s Founding Mothers Award.

The new award, announced in November, recognizes women working as technicians or painters on the collision repair shop floor โ€” a distinction from WIN’s long-running Most Influential Women (MIW) awards, which honor broader industry leadership. The Founding Mothers Award requires recipients to be actively performing hands-on refinish or painting work.

“Key considerations for this new, prestigious award were technicians

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