President’s Award for Ethnic Diversity

The President’s Award for Ethnic Diversity honors faculty, staff, students, departments, or organizations who have made outstanding contributions to the enhancement of ethnic diversity at NAU.

2023 Award Winners:

• Staff – Esther Cuellar (Assistant Director, Enrollment Management; Financial Aid Department)
• Student – Jonathan Otero
• Faculty – Dr. Catharyn Shelton (Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Specialties)

Congratulations to the award winners!

Past Winners:

2022

• Staff Award: Team Vidal Mendoza and Nancy Navarro (assistant director, Student Life Experience; and assistant director, Enrollment Management, respectively)
• Faculty Award: Dr. Tracye A. Moore (chair/associate clinical professor, Dental Hygiene)
• Student/Student Group Award: Latine Student Union (LSU)

2021

• Interdisciplinary Global Programs (Center for International Education), Organization

2020

• Nancy Barron, Faculty
• Dian Squire, Faculty
• Sharon Doctor, Staff
• Soul Sugar, Organization

Recognizing Significant Individual Contributions to the Enhancement of Ethnic Diversity

1998–1999

• Deborah Harris
• Benjamin McDonald

1997 – 1998

• Dr. Sheryl Lutjens

1996 – 1997

• Richard Tahvildaran-Jesswein
• Stella Gutierrez

1995 – 1996 

• Rosanna Ruiz

1994–1995

• Dr. Gina Cantoni

1993–1994

• Dr. Jose Colchado