This year's awards will recognize campus community members who have been engaged in, and/or advanced activities that address systemic racism domestically and abroad. One faculty member, staff member, student, and campus unit who have advanced the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion at Georgia Tech and abroad will be recognized at the 2021 Diversity Symposium in September.
Criteria
2021 Diversity Champion Awards recipients should have demonstrated one or more of the following within the past three years:
- Commitment to research and/or activities that engage and challenge systemic racism, and expand diversity, equity, and inclusion at Tech
- Leadership in building an anti-racist, equitable, and inclusive campus community
- Scholarship or work that advances a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusive excellence at Georgia Tech
- Organized, conducted, and/or supported programs, events, and activities that promote an understanding of anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion-related issues/challenges and solutions at Tech
Eligibility
All faculty, staff, students, and campus units (e.g. - College, School, department) are eligible for this award with the exception of previous recipients of a Diversity Champion Award or Gender Equity Champion Award.
Nomination Process
Nominations are closed for the 2021 Diversity Champion Awards.
Previous Winners
From 2013 to 2015 and 2017 to 2020, the Diversity Champion Awards recognized faculty, staff, students, and units who actively demonstrated and positively promoted the concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion at Tech.
In 2016, the Gender Equity Champion Awards were created to serve the same function in recognizing efforts in support of gender diversity, equity, and inclusion — in conjunction with the Eighth Annual Diversity Symposium, “Celebrating Women at Georgia Tech.”
Each year, award winners are recognized at the Diversity Symposium Awards Luncheon. They have included:
2021
- Faculty: Lewis Wheaton
- Staff: Shaunitra Wisdom
- Student: Shelbe Johnson
- Unit: Office of Undegraduate Education's Equality Collective
2020
- Faculty: Cassie Mitchell
- Staff: Johan Rempel
- Student: Nandita Gupta
- Unit: Writing and Communication Program (Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts)
2019
- Faculty: Maryam Alavi
- Staff: Melanie DeMaeyer
- Student: Cong Luo
- Unit: Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
2018
- Faculty: Katherine Fu
- Staff: LaJauna Ellis
- Student: William Harrer
- Unit: MBA Programs Office at Ernest Scheller Jr. College of Business
2017
- Faculty: Anne Pollock
- Staff: Jocelyn Thomas
- Student: Jennifer Salcedo
- Unit: CEED
2016
- Faculty: Mary Frank Fox
- Staff: Shannon Sullivan
- Student: Kendall Rankin
- Unit: School of Physics
2015
- Faculty: Mary Lynn Realff and Stephen Ruffin
- Staff: Madison Cario and Matthew Hall
- Students: W.R. Alexander Berry and Andrea Welsh
- Units: Division of Student Life and School of Mathematics
2014
- Faculty: Carol Colatrella and Gary May
- Staff: Sandy Simpson
- Student: Kate Overstreet
- Unit: CEISMC
2013
- Faculty: Rigoberto Hernandez
- Staff: Keith Oden
- Student: Jiby Yohannen
- Unit: Project ENGAGES
