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Mariama Suwaneh to Receive the Inaugural Spark Award
January 9, 2024
The University of Washington Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity has announced Mariama Suwaneh, ’17, as the inaugural recipient of the OMA&D Spark Award. As an actively engaged student at the UW and an avid community builder since graduation, Suwaneh embodies the diversity, equity and inclusion leadership that inspires young changemakers and exemplifies the spirit of the Charles E. Odegaard award.…
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2023 Samuel E. Kelly Distinguished Faculty Lecture Recap
November 6, 2023
On Tuesday, October 17, 2023, OMA&D held its annual Samuel E. Kelly Distinguished Faculty Lecture. This year, the lecture featured Dr. Joanne Woiak, Associate Teaching Professor for the Disability Studies Program at the University of Washington. Her lecture “Engaging Disability, Empowering History: Ethics and Politics of Disability History” highlighted the exclusion and erasure of disabilities from history and the impact…
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The Raap Approach
October 25, 2023
How Melissa Raap’s first-generation college student experience shapes her work today. Melissa Raap, MSW (’11) manages the University of Washington’s Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity Champions program. Champions serves students on the UW Seattle campus who are alumni of foster care or unaccompanied homeless youth by helping them navigate the challenging bureaucracies that come with being a student.…
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Thank you! 2023 Celebration Event Recap
June 6, 2023
With help from OMA&D supporters, we raised over $370,000 for OMA&D and EOP scholarships! On Wednesday, May 17, 2023, the Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity and the Friends of the Educational Opportunity Program Board of Trustees hosted 550 people in the University of Washington Husky Union Ballroom for a wonderful evening of music, dancing, dining and celebrating together in…
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Celebration is Back! Highlights from the 2022 Celebration Gala
June 1, 2022
A Message from VP Rickey Hall Thank you for supporting our annual gala, Celebration, presented by the Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity and the Friends of the Educational Opportunity Program Board! We are grateful to our community of supporters who came together in person and virtually last week to honor Frank Irigon as the Charles E. Odegaard award recipient…
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University of Washington initiatives receive investment from the Mark Torrance Foundation to support diversity, equity and inclusion
March 31, 2022
Two University of Washington initiatives that support the recruitment and post-graduation success and impact of students from underrepresented backgrounds have received investments from the Mark Torrance Foundation (MTF) totaling $920,000. The UW’s Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity (OMA&D) will receive $420,000 over two years to support its Multicultural Outreach and Recruitment initiative. This investment will allow OMA&D to increase the number of students the…
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Welcome Madrienne White as the OMA&D Representative to the University of Washington Foundation Board
November 8, 2021
Madrienne White (’08, 19) has joined the University of Washington Foundation Board (UWFB) as the representative for the Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity (OMA&D). She is moving into the position previously held by long term OMA&D advocate and 2015 Charles E. Odegaard Award recipient Colleen Fukui-Sketchley. White graduated from UW in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in American Indian…
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OMA&D announces gift from Sea Mar and MultiCare to support underrepresented students
October 5, 2020
The University of Washington today announced a $100,000 gift to the Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity (OMA&D) and UW Tacoma’s Office of Equity & Inclusion (OEI). The gift will provide financial assistance to undergraduate students participating in the Educational Opportunity Program at the UW in Seattle and in programs under development within OEI on the Tacoma campus.
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Former IC Student, Celebration Scholar Anisa Ibrahim Featured by CNN
November 14, 2019
Dr. Anisa Ibrahim's inspirational journey to become the director of Harborview Medical Center’s Pediatrics Clinic in Seattle was recently featured by CNN.
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Watch Joshua’s Story
December 13, 2018
University of Washington alumnus Joshua Dawson, ’18, shares his story about how the Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity, and particularly the Instructional Center, impacted his Husky Experience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqzbfeYqPWc