Lifetime Achievement Award

Dionardo Pizaña is the diversity, equity and inclusion specialist for MSU Extension, where he develops and identifies resources and learning opportunities for staff members, community partners and other interested organizations and agencies across the state. These resources and learning opportunities help inform the organizational commitment to civil rights, equity and inclusion so that these values become incorporated into extension programming and outreach.

Pizaña annually provides ten Multicultural Understanding Workshops to the MSU community. He has led efforts with tribal partners in the state of Michigan and provides support to MSU Extension’s LGBTQ Resource Team and MSU Extension’s Race and Ethnicity Council. Additionally, in his role, he has been an advocate for thousands of underrepresented youth and professionals across the country.