Amanda Devecka-Rinear is a trailblazer – she even has the award to prove it.

The fourth-generation Cedar Bonnet Island resident is executive director of the nonprofit New Jersey Resource Project and its 501(c)(4) sister organization New Jersey Organizing Project. Sunday she was honored at the 12th annual Evangelina Menendez Women’s History Month Celebration at Montclair State University, where she received the Trailblazer Award.