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Champion of Our Community

In 1997 the LGBTSFA initiated the Champion of Our Community award. It is given each year to a member of our group who has made distinguished contributions to the LGBT community.

The award contains the following quotation.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles by it.
--Margaret Fuller

Award Winners

  • 2007 Sivagami Subbaraman, Associate Director, Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equity

  • 2006 Robert E. Waters Jr, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Special Assistant to the President

  • 2005 Laura Nichols, Assistant Director and Academic Advisor, Women's Studies

  • 2004 Brett Parson, Alumnus and Officer responsible for the Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit, Metropolitan Police Department, District of Columbia

  • 2003 Jessica Xavier, Alumna; and Kitt Kling, Alumnus

  • 2002 Marilee Lindemann, Associate Professor of English; and Ruth E. Fassinger, Associate Professor of Counseling and Personnel Services

  • 2001 Vicky Foxworth, Director, Office for Organizational Effectiveness

  • 2000 Nancy Meyer, Chair of the Free State Justice Campaign

  • 1999 Nancy West, Primary Care Coordinator, Health Center

  • 1998 Luke Jensen, Chair of the President's Commission for Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Issues

  • 1997 M. V. Lee Badgett, Assistant Professor of Public Affairs

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Updated May 2004