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About the Womxn's Center
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2022 Planning Committee
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Academic Achievement Award
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Ally Award
Outstanding Social Justice Award
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Committee Spotlight Award
0 3 About the Womxn's Center
Dynamic Womxn of the Year Award
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Ally Award
1 4 Outstanding Social Justice Award 1 7 Committee Spotlight Award 1 9 Dynamic Womxn of the Year Award
About the Womxn's Center for Success THE WOMXN’S CENTER FOR SUCCESS AT UC IRVINE ADVANCES GENDER EQUITY BY RAISING CONSCIOUSNESS ON SOCIAL JUSTICE CONCEPTS, FOSTERING PERSONAL GROWTH, BUILDING COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS, ENCOURAGING IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT, AND INCREASING ACCESS TO RESOURCES THAT SUPPORT HOLISTIC WELLNESS.
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2022 UC Irvine Dynamic Womxn Awards Planning Committee
DAKOTA SERAFIN DIVISION OF CAREER PATHWAYS
GAM THI CAO WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP CAMPUS ORGANIZATION
GIGI LIU WOMXN'S CENTER FOR SUCCESS
JANIELLE VIDAL DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
KATHY DONG STUDENT SUCCESS INITIATIVES
PAULINA RAYGOZA STUDENT OUTREACH AND RETENTION CENTER
SHARON STEAD MIDDLE EARTH HOUSING
SYDNEY TORRES WOMXN'S CENTER FOR SUCCESS
UC Irvine Dynamic Womxn Awards Program WELCOME SPEAKER ADDRESS: GILLIAN HAYES & SHERWYNN UMALI AWARD PRESENTATION 2020 & 2021 RECOGNITION ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARD ALLY AWARD STUDENT ORGANIZATION PERFORMANCE: CLAIR DE LUNE OUTSTANDING SOCIAL JUSTICE ACTIVIST COMMITTEE SPOTLIGHT AWARD DYNAMIC WOMXN OF THE YEAR COMMITTEE THANKS CLOSING
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UC Irvine Dynamic Womxn Awards THE UC IRVINE DYNAMIC WOMXN AWARDS EVENT CELEBRATES AND HONORS THE INCREDIBLE WOMXN WHO ARE LEADERS AND ROLE MODELS ACTIVELY MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN OUR COMMUNITY. THIS IS A ONE OF A KIND CELEBRATION THAT FOCUSES ON THE WOMXN WHO INSPIRE US TO TAKE ACTION AND TO FIGHT FOR CAUSES WE BELIEVE IN. NOW IN ITS 9TH YEAR, THIS PROGRAM CONTINUES TO GROW IN SIZE, SCALE, AND IMPACT. THIS YEAR THERE WERE OVER 95 NOMINATIONS IN FIVE AWARD CATEGORIES.
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Categories ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT ALLY OUTSTANDING SOCIAL JUSTICE ACTIVIST COMMITTEE SPOTLIGHT AWARD
DYNAMIC WOMXN OF THE YEAR
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Academic Achievement Award THIS AWARD HONORS MEMBER(S) OF THE UCI COMMUNITY (FACULTY, GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS) WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED ACADEMIC RESEARCH/THEORY THAT ADVANCES KNOWLEDGE, NARRATIVES AND/OR PEDAGOGY THAT ELEVATE WOMXN'S AND BIWOC (BLACK, INDIGENOUS, WOMXN OF COLOR) ISSUES IN THEIR FIELD.
AWARDEES CHLOE SHIN UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT ANJELICA CARDENAS GRADUATE STUDENT DR. VIBHUTI RAMACHANDRAN FACULTY
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CHLOE SHIN Political Science Undergraduate Student
"Chloe embodies a dynamic community member through her activities. Those activities have shown her fervent passion to give back to older members of the Asian Community as well as engaging younger community members to participate in political action, advancing the cause of all people of color, and especially Asian American females in their pursuit of positions in municipal, state, and federal government."
ANJELICA CARDENAS
DR. VIBHUTI RAMACHANDRAN
Pharmaceutical Sciences/ Pharmacology
Global and International Studies
Graduate Student
Faculty
“This year, Anjelica will be the first Latina to graduate from her program's history. She is a leader in her lab having mentored numerous undergraduates in her laboratory, largely Latinx. She has a deep desire to mentor, teach and inspire a next generation of scientists from diverse backgrounds.”
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“ Professor Vibhuti Ramachandran is a leading anthropologist of law, gender and sexuality, and South Asia. Her scholarship, mentorship, and teaching advance knowledge and pedagogy that elevate womxn’s and BIWOC issues in society and higher education.”
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT NOMINATIONS A. Lili Castillo Emma Lessieur Elizabeth Montoya Breauna Spencer Sora Park Tanjasiri Anika Tasnim Emily Tom
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Ally Award THIS AWARD HONORS MEMBER(S) WHO HAVE DEMONSTRATED A COMMITMENT TO CREATING A SPACE TO ADVANCE WOMXN IN HIGHER EDUCATION BY BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS FOR ADVANCING WOMXN'S VOICE, ROLE, AND PRESENCE AT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF THE UCI CAMPUS. EXAMPLES CAN INCLUDE BIWOC STUDY SPACES, SCHOLARSHIPS FOR GRAD STUDENTS, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/TRAINING/MENTORSHIP FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF WOMXN, ETC.
AWARDEE DR. RONALD RIVERA
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DR. RONALD RIVERA School of Medicine & UCI Medical Center Faculty
“Dr. Rivera has provided important spaces for all womxn in his involvement with the school of medicine. His lecture on transgender care not only reinforced the need for better treatment of womxn in medicine, but also for our womxn patients whose concerns are often dismissed. He made sure that he didn’t just speak on the care for all womxn but including a gender inclusive breakout session for many queer and transgender folks to tell their story.”
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ALLY AWARD NOMINATIONS Niobe Duke Angela Jenks Joey Leon Peter Thach
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OUTSTANDING SOCIAL JUSTICE ACTIVIST AWARD THIS AWARD HONORS INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE DEMONSTRATED A COMMITMENT TO WORKING ON ANTI-SEXIST ENDEAVORS AND WHO HAVE DRAWN CONNECTIONS BETWEEN VARIOUS COMMUNITIES TO END MULTIPLE FORMS OF OPPRESSION INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ABLEISM, HETEROSEXISM, RACISM, CLASSISM, XENOPHOBIA, AND AGEISM.
AWARDEES MELISSA MOLINA UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT DR. ALANA LEBRÓN FACULTY NIOBE DUKE STAFF
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MELISSA MOLINA
DR. ALANA LEBRÓN
NIOBE DUKE
Education Sciences, Chicano/Latino
Chicano/Latino Studies &
Center for Black Cultures, Resources &
Studies, & Political Science
Health, Society and Behavior
Research
Undergraduate Student
Faculty
Staff
"Prof. LeBron is a public health scholar and activist who has forged important community partnerships to catalyze action to confront environmental injustice and toxic contamination impacting minoritized communities in Orange County. She epitomizes a dynamic womxn leader devoted to the community, and community-led partnerships with the university to reimagine public health equity and elevate community knowledges to inform action.."
"Niobe has shown herself to be a leader-activist in every regard. Her influence and presence on this campus has been instrumental in the development, both intellectually and emotionally, of young Black minds on campus as the program coordinator of the Center for Black Cultures, Resources & Research. Niobe is a hurricane of social justice and her winds of activism and service have cleared space for other womxn to introduce their own singular beauty into the world."
"Melissa has poured immeasurable heart labor into making UCI a more humanizing institution for people of color as a researcher, organizer, and scholar-activist. She has leveraged their lived experiences as a queer, working-class, first-generation, dark-skinned brown Latina woman to humanize institutions like UCI that were not created with marginalized people like herself in mind. They resist being rendered invisible, and plans to continue using her community cultural wealth to build and sustain safe spaces for all."
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OUTSTANDING SOCIAL JUSTICE ACTIVIST NOMINATIONS Thais Bouchereau Chloe Cuberly Ava DuFort Camille Edwards Pheather Harris Dinorah Hernandez Andrea Morales
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Committee Spotlight Award OFTENTIMES IN THE REVIEW OF THE AWARD NOMINATIONS, THERE IS AN OVERWHELMING AMOUNT OF NOMINATIONS WITHIN A CATEGORY AND WITHIN ONE AFFILIATION (STAFF/FACULTY/STUDENT). THE COMMITTEE HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO SELECT A SPOTLIGHT AWARD TO HONOR AND CELEBRATE AN INDIVIDUAL IN AN AWARD CATEGORY AND AFFILIATION THAT HAS EQUALLY COMPELLING NARRATIVES AND EXPERIENCES FOR SELECTION OR A TIE IN RUBRIC SCORES.
AWARDEE
CHLOE CUBERLY
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CHLOE CUBERLY Criminology Undergraduate Student
“Chloe has challenged us to think differently about not only the performing arts, but inclusivity in general.” “Chloe has been the mentor in my life that I desperately needed. ” “I am empowered because of Chloe, and it is my belief that the fundamental purpose of social justice is to empower the individual and give them the strength to fight for their health and happiness. ”
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Dynamic Womxn of the Year Award THIS AWARD HONORS INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE DEMONSTRATED A COMMITMENT TO THE PERSONAL GROWTH AND SUCCESS OF WOMXN, THROUGH EDUCATION, RESEARCH, PUBLIC OR VOLUNTEER SERVICE, ABOVE AND BEYOND THEIR EXPECTED RESPONSIBILITIES. THIS AWARD RECOGNIZES AN INDIVIDUAL'S SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO THE UCI COMMUNITY THAT MAY OFTEN GO UNNOTICED. AWARDEES ANDREA MORALES UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT OLGA GRACIELA JAIME OROZCO GRADUATE STUDENT DR. DOROTA SKOWRONSKA-KRAWCZYK FACULTY DR. STEPHANIE REYES-TUCCIO STAFF
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ANDREA MORALES
DR. DOROTA SKOWRONSKA-KRAWCZYK
International Studies
Physiology & Biophysics, Ophthalmology
Undergraduate Student
Faculty
“Andrea has fought to create spaces celebrating the indigenous community. She is a constant advocate for the indigenous community-always supporting them and making space for them to exist " “Andrea inspires other indigenous students to empower themselves through their indigeneity and fights against racism and xenophobia against indigenous students through her programming "
OLGA GRACIELA JAIME OROZCO Physiology & Biophysics Graduate Student
“I have seen Olga's incredible will and passion for science and education. She is an unmovable force that strives to excel at everything she tries. She is also a DECADE leader for the school of medicine and is known well by faculty and her peers."
“Dorota is passionate and openly discusses the problems of gender equity. Her mission is to accelerate the change and empower women of all backgrounds to achieve full potential in careers as researchers, clinicians, and leaders. Despite her busy research career, she continuously mentors several rotating graduate students and Ph.D. candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and others."
DR. STEPHANIE REYESTUCCIO Center for Educational Partnerships Staff
“ Dr. Reyes-Tuccio leads, connects, inspires and lifts our UCI community through her visionary leadership. Dr. Reyes-Tuccio embodies the values of the institution and is utilizing her own sphere of influence to help others achieve the American Dream and transform institutions and organizations in the process."
DYNAMIC WOMXN OF THE YEAR AWARD NOMINATIONS Tayloria Adams Isabel Algaze Gonzalez Alicia (Marsha) Alvarez Masha (Maria) Andreyev Janine Baijnat Andrea Lili Castillo Chloe Cuberly Chloe Marbell Davidson Niobe Duke
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DYNAMIC WOMXN OF THE YEAR AWARD NOMINATIONS Lizette Espino Elizabeth Hafen Gillian Hayes Dinorah Hernandez
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DYNAMIC WOMXN OF THE YEAR AWARD NOMINATIONS Nimisha Parekh Paulina Raygoza Lindsey Soles Guicheng Tan Sherwynn Umali Iryna Zenyuk
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