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Women of the Year Award Nomination

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Nomination

  • Outstanding Faculty Woman Award - This award honors one faculty woman who has made significant contributions to the lives of women on campus through service, teaching and feminist* scholarship.
  • Outstanding Student Activist Award - This award honors 5 students who have contributed significantly to the feminist activism on the campus and/or in the community.
  • Outstanding Staff Woman Award - This award honors one staff woman who has made significant contributions to the lives of women on campus through service, advocacy, and/or feminist programming.
  • Outstanding Social Justice Activist Award - . This award honors three women (a student, a staff member, and a faculty member) who have worked in anti-sexist endeavors and who have drawn connections between various communities to end multiple forms of oppression. This award recognizes that various forms of oppression (e.g. sexism, ableism, racism, classism, heterosexism, religious discrimination) are connected and support one another.
  • Outstanding Athlete Award - This award honors 3 female athletes who have made significant achievements in their sport as well as in academics and service to the campus community.
  • Outstanding Ally Award - This award honors 3 men (a student, a staff member, and a faculty member) who have made significant contributions to feminist and anti-sexist activism on the campus.
  • Lydia Dodge Award - Selected by the staff of the Women's Center, The Lydia Dodge Award honors a woman who has given tremendous service to the Women's Center. Lydia Dodge is an Alumna of UVM and her contributions helped to create the Women's Center.

*“Simply put feminism is a movement to end sexism” (bell hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center).

Please describe how the person you are nominating fulfills the description of the award. Please include examples. IMPORTANT: In order for nominations to be considered for an award they MUST be 200 words or more.

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