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Defender of Diversity

In 1994 the LGBTSFA initiated the Defender of Diversity award. It is given each year to an Ally or Allies who have made distinguished contributions to the LGBT community.

The award contains the following quotation.

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man [or woman] stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he [or she] sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

--Robert Kennedy, South Africa, 1966

Award Winners

2007 Donna B. Hamilton, Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean for Undergraduate Studies

2006 Laura D. Scott, Organizational Development Specialist, Center for Leadership and Organizational Change

2005 Susan Bayly, General Counsel, Office of Legal Affairs

2004 Nancy Yeroshefsky, Assistant Director for Human Resources, Facilities Management

2003 Gay Gullickson, Professor of History at the University of Maryland and Chair of the University Senate Human Relations Committee

2002 Victor Korenman, Associate Provost at the University of Maryland

2001 Sheila E. Hixson, Delegate to the Maryland Legislature

2000 Marie S. Davidson, Chief of Staff to the President of the University of Maryland

1999 Parris N. Glendening, Governor of the State of Maryland

1998 William E. Kirwan, President of the University of Maryland

1997 Sharon M. Grosfeld, Delegate to the Maryland Legislature

1996 Margaret Alton, Regent of the University System of Maryland

1995 Cheryl Kagan, Delegate to the Maryland Legislature

1994 Hank Dobin and Art Eckstein, Professors at the University of Maryland

Updated May 2004