2009 Recipients

The selection committee congratulates all those nominated and chosen for the inaugural Distinguished Diversity Leaders Award.

Individual Awardees

Delphine Byrd 
Patricia Coleman-Burns
Tendaji Ganges
Robert Koonce 
Inel Lewis
Tiffany Porties
Greg Snyder
Mary Stewart
Debbie Taylor

Team Awardees

Michigan Community Scholars Staff 
Business and Finance Diversity Committee 
UM Dearborn Early Childhood Education Center 
Division of General Pediatrics/Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit 
Cancer Center Community Outreach Program 

List of Nominees

Nominee Department Nominated by:

Business & Finance Diversity Committee

Office of the EVP CFO

Maureen Ybarra

Cancer Center Community Outreach Program

Comprehensive Cancer Center

Aisha Langford

Division of General Pediatrics / Child Health Evaluation and Research (CHEAR) Unit

Division of General Pediatrics

Dr. Gary Freed

Michigan Community Scholars Program

LS&A Undergraduate Education

Amanda Hooper
Wendy Woods

UM Dearborn Early Childhood Education Center

UM Dearborn - School of Education

Catherine Kurtjian
Kelly Lenihan
Caryn Finkelstein
Cyndi McAuliffe

Multicultural Environmental Leadership Development Initiative

School of Natural Resources & Environment

Dorceta E. Taylor

Diversity & Career Development Office

Medical School

Andrea Knittel

Diversity & Career Development Office

Medical School

Tahnee C. H. Prokopow

New Hope Outreach Clinic

Geriatrics Center

Laura Galia

Library Diversity Committee

University Library

Charles Ransom

Office of Multiethnic Student Affairs staff

Office of Multiethnic Student Affairs

Anita Bohn

Office of Student Conflict Resolution
Program on Intergroup Relations

Jackie Simpson
Simone Himbeault-Taylor

Managed Care / Student Insurance Office

Managed Care / Student Insurance Office

Nina Thomas

Pat McCune
Ellen Meader 
Debby Mitchell
Amy Deitrickson
Amy Eaton

Rackham Graduate School

Janet Weiss

Delphine Byrd

Admissions - Law School

Sarah Zearfoss

Patricia Coleman-Burns

School of Nursing

Cathy Felder 

Tendaji Ganges

 

 

Robert Koonce

Undergraduate Student Affairs - Ross School of Business

Karen Bird

Inel Lewis

Diversity & Career Development Office - Medical School

Oluwaferanmi Okanlami
Rachel Issaka
Kevin Blas
David Gordon
Tahnee Prokopow

Tiffany Stonestreet Porties 

Program in Biomedical Sciences

Miriam Mesiler
Victor DiRita
David Gordon
Harry Granito
Lori Isom
David Engelke
Kate Barald

Greg Snyder

Purchasing Department - UM Flint

Ruth Person

Mary Stewart

University Unions Event Services

Margaret Aldridge

Debbie Taylor

Women in Science and Engineering Program

Cinda-Sue Davis

Cynthia Barhyte

Newnan LS&A Academic Advising Center

Martha P. Kirpes

William (Nick) Collins

Center for Educational Outreach

Marie Ting

Gary Freed

General Pediatrics / CHEAR Unit

Susan Woolford
David Bloom
Valerie Castle
David Gordon

C. Olivia Frost

School of Information

Jeffrey Mackie-Mason

Gerald Hoff

UMH Insurance & Registration & Insurance Verification

Jim Chambers

Marilyn Hollier

Security and Entrance Services

Erik Patterson

James Jackson

Institute for Social Research

Emily Merchant

Tamaria Leverett

University Health Service

Patricia Richter

Helen Look

University Library

Charles Ransom

Charlene McLean

Mott PACU

Trish First

John Matlock

Office of the Provost & Office of Academic and Multicultural Initiatives

Je'Nai Talley

Jun Ni

Manufacturing Science, Mechanical Engineering

Youxue Zhang

Michael Parise

Internal Medicine - Allergy

Thommey P. Thomas

Nilton O. Renno

Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Science

Shintaro Taniguchi

Robert Scott

College of Engineering

Tony England

Jean Thatcher Shope

Transportation Research Institute

Johnathon Ehsani

Sabrina Starks

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Doria Chege

Flannery Stevens 

Management & Organizations - Ross School of Business

Flannery Stevens

Sharon Vaughters

Dean of Students Office

Anita Bohn

Brian Wallace

Psychology

Theresa Lee

Nicole Washington

Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR)

Dorene Markel
Ana Austin
Molly White

Marilyn Woolfolk

Dental School

Marita Rosch Inglehart