Save the Date
OMA&D’s 54th Annual Celebration Gala
Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 5:00 pm
UW Husky Union Building, 4001 E Stevens Way, Seattle
Event Registration opens on April 1, 2025!
Be a Celebration Partner, review our Celebration Partnership Packet. We welcome the opportunity to discuss support opportunities with you. Please reach us directly at celebration@uw.edu or (206) 543.0994.
OMA&D’s Annual Celebration Gala is supported by the Friends of Educational Opportunity Program (FEOP) Board of Trustees. For more information, please reach Crissi Mora at morac@uw.edu.
Recognition Awards
As the UW’s signature event to support diversity, equity and inclusion, Celebration showcases inspiring community leadership, academic excellence and our remarkable students. Here we create connections within our community of corporate partners, individuals, philanthropists, sovereign nations and with our students. By recognizing the Charles E. Odegaard Award and OMA&D Spark Award recipients, we honor inspirational community members who are examples to us all.
2025 Charles E. Odegaard Award
The Charles E. Odegaard Award recognizes this year’s recipient Angela King ’94, for her leadership advancing the former UW President Odegaard’s distinguished work on behalf of diversity, equity and inclusion at the UW and in community.
2025 OMA&D Spark Award
The Spark Award recognizes the accomplishments of a recent UW graduate, who made significant contributions in diversity, equity and inclusion during their time as a student and continues to do so post-graduation.
For more information, please reach us at celebration@uw.edu or (206) 543.0994. To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at 206-543-6450 (voice), 206-543-6452 (TTY), 206-685-7264 (fax), or dso@uw.edu. The University of Washington makes every effort to honor disability accommodation requests. Requests can be responded to most effectively if received as far in advance of the event as possible.
Highlights from the 2024 Annual Celebration Gala
Donate to EOP Scholarships
All funds raised at Celebration benefit OMA&D’s Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) for American Indian/Alaska Native, economically disadvantaged, first-generation, and underrepresented minority students, and students formerly in foster care.
Learn more about OMA&D’s Educational Opportunity Program