2024 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Alumni Award
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It was very humbling. I was very surprised. I look at it every year,
to look at the award and one of the first people that I connected with was Dr. Savala,
who won it a while back and has been a mentor and a really strong person in
my life professionally and personally in the DEI space. And so I'm very community driven,
so sometimes like realistically sometimes it's hard to take a step back and be like "I did
that" or yeah like you know it's because you just kind of want to keep going, and sometimes to stop
and reflect, at least for me. I don't spend a lot of time doing that, I probably should,
but very humbling, and a very large honor to be connected to such a cohort of folks who have had
such an impact in the College of Ag & Natural Resources. I think what's been hard has been
the balance and sometimes the resistance to the work - that you have to take moments to endure,
but those moments of resiliency are really great because you come through with so much
clarity about the steps that need to be taken for action. And again being able to get people to see
themselves in the work we all all as individuals have so much to bring to the space, and so being
able to help people connect to opportunities when they need to lean in, step in, or even sometimes
step out of the work is a really big part of it. That's what it boils down to and so being able
to kind of like measure the inputs and the outputs to that is very important to sustain in this work.
