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Defender of Diversity Award

Past awardees

  • 2022 Jazmin Pichardo
  • 2021 Timea Webster
  • 2020 Kelley Bishop
  • 2019 Shelby Renee Speer, Graduate Student Services Coordinator, Center for Student Engagement & Financial Resources at the Universities at Shady Grove
  • 2018 Alexis Y. Williams, Instructional Development Specialist, Teaching & Learning Transformation Center
  • 2017 Catherine A. Carroll, Director, Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct
  • 2016 Erin McClure, Chief of Staff, School of Public Health
  • 2015 Jenna Beckwith Messman, Sexual Health Program Coordinator, University Health Center
  • 2014 Bonnie Thornton Dill, Dean, College of Arts and Humanities
  • 2013 Kumea Shorter-Gooden, Chief Diversity Office and Associate Vice President
  • 2012 Deborah Grandner, Director, Department of Resident Life
  • 2011 Sally Koblinsky, Assistant President and Chief of Staff
  • 2010 Cordell W. Black, Associate Provost for Equity and Diversity
  • 2009 C. D. Mote, Jr., President, University of Maryland, College Park
  • 2008 Paul Dillon, Patrol Commander, Public Safety
  • 2007 Donna B. Hamilton, Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean for Undergraduate Studies
  • 2006 Laura D. Scott, Organizational Development Specialist, Center for Leadership and Organizational Change
  • 2005 Susan Bayly, General Counsel, Office of Legal Affairs
  • 2004 Nancy Yeroshefsky, Assistant Director for Human Resources, Facilities Management
  • 2003 Gay Gullickson, Professor of History at the University of Maryland and Chair of the University Senate Human Relations Committee
  • 2002 Victor Korenman, Associate Provost at the University of Maryland
  • 2001 Sheila E. Hixson, Delegate to the Maryland Legislature
  • 2000 Marie S. Davidson, Chief of Staff to the President of the University of Maryland
  • 1999 Parris N. Glendening, Governor of the State of Maryland
  • 1998 William E. Kirwan, President of the University of Maryland
  • 1997 Sharon M. Grosfeld, Delegate to the Maryland Legislature
  • 1996 Margaret Alton, Regent of the University System of Maryland
  • 1995 Cheryl Kagan, Delegate to the Maryland Legislature
  • 1994 Hank Dobin and Art Eckstein, Professors at the University of Maryland