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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.

2022 Recipients

  • Faculty Award: Dr. Dilofarid Miskinzod (lecturer, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies)
  • Staff Award: Lauren Copeland-Glenn (EO & Affirmative Action analysist, 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)

Congratulations to the award recipients!

Past Award Winners

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)

Commission on the Status of Women
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Room 110 Building 10
Old Main
620 S Knoles DR
Flagstaff, AZ 86011
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PO Box: 6040
Flagstaff, AZ 86011
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Email
Commission.StatusofWomen@nau.edu
Phone
928-523-8686