Outstanding Achievement and Contribution Award
The CSW Outstanding Achievement and Contribution Award honors Northern Arizona University faculty, staff or students and organizations or community members who have made outstanding contributions to women’s leadership development and towards advancing the status of women at Northern Arizona University. Only faculty, staff, and students may make nominations. The awardees are announced and honored at the President’s Annual Diversity Awards Celebration.
Four awards are presented annually. One award is presented to a faculty member, one to a staff member, one to a student, and the final award is presented to a group/organization. Award recipients are programs, departments, groups or individuals who have contributed significantly to the advancement of women at NAU.
2024 Nominations are now open!
Congratulations to the award recipients!
Past Award Winners
2023 Accordion Closed
Staff Emeritus: Wendy Wetzel
Organization: Associated Students of Northern Arizona University
Faculty: Andrea (Andi) Thode
Student: Kinsey Kavanagh
2022 Accordion Closed
- Faculty Award: Dr. Dilofarid Miskinzod (lecturer, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies)
- Staff Award: Lauren Copeland-Glenn (EO & Affirmative Action analyst, senior – SPF, Equity and Access Office)
- Community/Project/Organization Award: Period at Flagstaff (Representatives: Sydney Felsen and Brynne Shroufe)
- Student Award: Sydney Felsen (undergraduate student majoring in Biomedical Sciences, with a minor in Chemistry; president of Period at Flagstaff)
2021 Accordion Closed
Meredith Heller – Faculty Award
Jessy Zukosky – Staff Award
Ross Altenbaugh, Flagstaff Shelter Services – Organization Award
Shane Canitz – Student Award
2020 Accordion Closed
Karen Renner – Faculty Award
Melissa Griffin – Staff Award
Adonna Rometo, Gender Bias in STEM Fields – Project Award
Molly Bechtel, Gender Bias in STEM Fields – Project Award
2019 Accordion Closed
Michele Lee – Student Award
Women’s and Gender Studies – Organization Award
Sharon Gorman – Staff Award
Debra Edgerton – Faculty Award
2018 Accordion Closed
Dr. Frances Riemer – Faculty Award
Genevieve Conley – Undergraduate Student Award
Uzma Tahir – Graduate Student Award
NAU chapter of the Society of Women Engineers – Organization Award
2017 Accordion Closed
Sage Argyros
Dr. Kiisa Nishikawa
Graduate Student Government
Department of Women’s and Gender Studies
2016 Accordion Closed
NSF Advance Team
Tia Truss
Emily Bartman
Laura Gray Rosendale
2015 Accordion Closed
Safe Zone
Carol Lorek
2014 Accordion Closed
Geeta Chowdhry (posthumously)
AAUW (Flagstaff Branch)
2007 Accordion Closed
Beth Schuck
Trish Rensink
2006 Accordion Closed
Beth Schuck
Trish Rensink
2005 Accordion Closed
Trish Rensink
Erin Grisham
2004 Accordion Closed
Catherine Medina
Erin Grisham
2003 Accordion Closed
Catherine Medina
Helaine McLain
2002 Accordion Closed
Helaine McLain
2001 Accordion Closed
Barbara Gantt
2000 Accordion Closed
Laura Gray-Rosendale
1999 Accordion Closed
Michele Wallace
Joe Boles
Laura DeWald
Shannon Dooley
Julie Pastrick
Karen Underhill
Mary Kay Underhill
1998 Accordion Closed
Michele Wallace
1997 Accordion Closed
Cindy Anderson
1996 Accordion Closed
Claudia Bakula
1995 Accordion Closed
Julia Schimmel
1994 Accordion Closed
Mary Ann Steger
1993 Accordion Closed
Virginia Blankenship
1992 Accordion Closed
Pat Baron
1991 Accordion Closed
Phyllis Schiller