Awards
The community of LGBTQ Higher Education Resource Professionals is comprised of a vast array of dedicated individuals committed to enriching the lives and campus climates for LGBTQ people and their allies in higher education. It is only appropriate that we are able to recognize the durable and sustainable impact that we and our colleagues have at our institutions. The nomination process for awards opens annually.
Current Status of Nominations
The nominations for the 2025 Consortium Awards are open now for the Chris Woods Commitment to Service Award, Promising New Professional Award, and Dr. Sheltreese D. McCoy Award for Outstanding Social Justice Practice! In order to submit, you will need:
- Your basic information (name, email, role, etc)
- The nominee's basic information
- A copy of the nominee's CV or resume
- A letter from you describing why this individual should be considered for the selected award
Additionally, up to two letters of recommendation and additional relevant material may be submitted to strengthen the nomination, but are not required. Self-nominations are welcome!
The deadline to submit a nomination is 11:59 PM local time on Sunday, March 30th, 2025! If you have any questions, please email [email protected].
List of Awards
Chris Woods Commitment to Service Award
Renamed in 2021 to honor Chris Woods, a longtime Consortium member who served in a variety of roles as a member of the Executive Board as the Anti-Racism/Racial Justice Chair, Recorder, acting Chair, and the inaugural Internal Coordinator. This award is designed to recognize and honor individuals who have provided exemplary service to the Consortium. Awardees will have demonstrated exceptional involvement in organization programs, activities, or initiatives in service to members of the Consortium.
Distinguished Achievement in the Profession Award
This award recognizes distinguished achievements in the profession recognizes and honors individuals whose work has attained preeminence in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender services and programs in higher education. This work includes areas related to practice and policy, research and theory, as well as programs and service. The work exemplifies the profession and is represented by a broad scope of activities and accomplishments.
Research and Assessment Award
This award recognizes research and assessment recognizes an individual member or group for contributions that increase the body of literature related to sexuality and gender in higher education and improve programs and services that directly impact LGBT people in higher education settings. This award acknowledges the role and importance of both research and assessment in LGBT support services in higher education, particularly related to the intersecting identities of race, class, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ability, national origin, age, familial status, veteran status, and other emerging identities.
Promising New Professional Award
This award recognizes a professional with less than five years of experience and the unique role new professionals play in supporting students and innovating campus programs while elevating the work of a campus LGBTQ Center. The award recognizes a new professional who is doing outstanding service, demonstrates innovative or creative effort within the profession, and shows significant promise for leadership on the field.
Dr. Sheltreese D. McCoy Award for Outstanding Social Justice Practice
Named in honor of the work and legacy of Dr. Sheltresse D. McCoy, this award recognizes significant commitments to social justice in both the field of Student Affairs as an academic discipline and through advanced practice in a professional capacity. This includes research, published work, advocacy, policy change, advising and/or mentoring student organizations, curriculum creation, best practices, and other work that addresses the intersecting identities of race, class, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression, ability, national origin, age, familial status, veteran status, and other emerging identities.
Awards Review Committee
The award review committee is made up of at least one Board member and multiple member volunteers. Committee members are asked to attend committee calls, with a specific time/date to be determined based on committee availability, and complete other required tasks totaling up to 4 hours of overall work.
Questions or interested in helping review awards? Email the Membership Engagement Collective at [email protected].
Past Winners
Listed positions and name of awards reflect those current at the time of the award being given.
| Year |
Recipient |
Award |
| 2024 |
Dr. Pat Tetreault
University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Associate Professor of Practice Educational Administration
|
Dr. Sheltreese D. McCoy Award for Outstanding Social Justice Practice |
| Dr. Stephanie Bondi
University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Associate Professor of Practice Educational Administration
|
Distinguished Achievement in the Field
|
| Moisés Villada
University of Illinois at Chicago Gender and Sexuality Center, Associate Director
|
Distinguished Achievement in the Field
|
| Angie Freeman
University of Michigan Spectrum Center, Program Manager for Events and Partnership
|
Promising New Professional
|
| 2023 |
Cori Deming
University of Kansas, Program Coordinator at The Center for Sexuality & Gender Diversity
|
Promising New Professional |
| Nana Adu, Ed.D.
Bentley University in Waltham, MA, Assistant Director for Gender and Sexuality Student Programs
|
Promising New Professional |
| Rafael Norwoord
University of Colorado - Colorado Springs, LGBTQ+ Coordinator at the Multicultural Office for Student Access, Inclusiveness, and Community and LGBTQ+ Resource Center
|
Dr. Sheltreese D. McCoy Award for Outstanding Social Justice Practice |
| 2022 |
Zach Parker
University of Kansas, Events and Student Engagement Program Coordinator at The Center for Sexuality & Gender Diversity
|
Promising New Professional |
| Ashley Ruderman-Looff, Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, Assistant Director for Advocacy and Education | Center for Women, Gender, & Sexuality
|
Promising New Professional |
| 2021 |
Liz López
University of Los Angeles, Assistant Director of LGBTQ Campus Resource Center
|
Promising New Professional |
| Oprah Jrenal
Michigan State University, Assistant Director for the Gender and Sexuality Campus Center
|
Dr. Sheltreese D. McCoy Award for Outstanding Social Justice Practice |
| 2020 |
Gabe Javier
University of Madison, Associate Vice Chancellor for Students Affairs – Identity and Inclusion
|
Distinguished Achievement in the Profession |
| Jen Hsu-Bishop
Grand Valley State University, Director of the Milton E. Ford LGBT Resource Center
|
Research & Assessment |
| TK "Tristan" Morton
University of Kansas, Coordinator for the Center for Sexuality and Gender Diversity
|
Promising New Professional |
| Roberta Nelson
Vanderbilt University, Assistant Director of LGBTQI Life
|
Promising New Professional |
| 2019 |
Romeo Jackson
University of Nevada-Las Vegas, LGBTQ & gender Program Coordinator/Interim Assitant Director for Social Justice
|
Dr. Sheltreese D. McCoy Award for Outstanding Social Justice Practice |
| Jaimée M. K. Marsh
University of Washington, Q Center
|
Dr. Sheltreese D. McCoy Award for Outstanding Social Justice Practice |
| Babyface Card
Florida International University, Center for Leadership & Service
|
Promising New Professional |
| Jamie Gonzales
University of Houston, LGBTQ Resource Center
|
Promising New Professional |
| Warren Scherer
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Gender and Sexuality Campus Center
|
Service to the Consortium |
| 2018 |
Je-Shawna Wholley
Brown University, LGBTQ Center
|
Outstanding Social Justice |
| Aiden Cropsey
Cornell University, LGBT Resource Center
|
Promising New Professional |
| Dr. D-L Stewart
Colorado State University, School of Education
|
Research & Assessment |
| 2017 |
Sheltreese D. McCoy
The University of Wisconsin-Madison
|
Outstanding Social Justice Practice |
| Kasey Catlett, M.Ed.
The University of Oaklahoma
|
Promising New Professional |
| Dr. Luke Jensen
University of Maryland, College Park
|
Distinguished Achievement in the Profession |
| 2016 |
Cara Miller, Ph.D.
Gallaudet University, Coordinator of the LGBTQA Resource Center
|
Promising New Professional |
| Debbie Kazarsky, Ph.D.
Princeton University, Director of the LGBT Center
|
Service to the Consortium |
| 2015 |
Genny Beemyn
University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Director of the Stonewall Center
|
Research & Assessment |
| Leslie Morrow
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Director of the LGBT Resource Center
|
Award for Intersectionality |
| Natasha Cox
Penn State, Program Coordinator for the LGBTQA Resource Center
|
Promising New Professional |
| 2014 |
Shiva Subbaraman
Georgetown University, Director of the LGBTQ Resource Center
|
Award for Intersectionality |
| Zaneta Rago
Rutgers University, Assistant Director for the Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities
|
Promising New Professional |
| Chicora Martin
University of Oregon
|
Service to the Consortium |
| 2013 |
Sue Rankin |
Distinguished Achievement in the Profession |
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