What a celebration! Fifty people came out to Rainbow Celebration for food, fellowship, and most importantly, to support our graduates and award winners. The Chancellor, the Provost, and Kim Simes, our keynote speaker, shared their wisdom with us, and two students from TIFU Cultural Ensemble treated us to a performance. Thank you to all who attended and helped make this event such a success, especially Heather Niemeier, Kate Braman, and Kyle Naff for reading the award nominations.
If you could not attend, please make sure to congratulate our graduates and award recipients:
Award Recipients
- Outstanding Graduating LGBT* Student Leaders
- Tempestt Ballenger
- Kari Jo Freudigmann
- Outstanding LGBT* and Ally Faculty/Staff Member
- Crista Lebens, Associate Professor of Philosophy
- Mai Yer Yang, Intergroup Relations Coordinator
- Outstanding Student Group
- Black Student Union
- Outstanding LGBT* or Queer Studies Research
- Erica Schepp, MS, College of Education & Professional Studies
Graduates
- Graduate Students
- Pamela Crisafulli, Counseling
- Erica Schepp, Education [Professional Development]
- Jennifer Stubbs, Counseling
- Undergraduate Students
- Tempestt Ballenger, Operations Management
- Ali Blanchard, Sociology
- Shawn DeVault, Health & Human Performance
- Kari Jo Freudigmann, Graphic Design
- Matthew Ross, Entrepreneurship
- Sean P. Van Aacken, International Business
