Sarah Belle Brown Awards and Luncheon | 
The Committee for Public Service and Community Engagement announced the recipients of the 4th annual Sarah Belle Brown Community Service Awards at a ceremony held Wednesday, May 13. Recipients included Alice Loy, Teresa Cordova and Jorge Garcia. President and Mrs. Schmidly, Provost Suzanne Ortega, and Sarah Belle Brown and Doug Brown attended to recognize the recipients.
Student Alice Loy received the award for establishing the Social Ventures Partners New Mexico, the state’s first social enterprise and investment organization.
Teresa Cordova, associate professor and director of the Community and Regional Planning Program, was recognized for her role as a founder of the Resource Center for Raza Planning. See the project profile below.
Staff member Jorge Garcia’s work on bridging the digital divide through organizing conferences and developing projects in New Mexico and throughout Latin America led to his award. See the project profile below.
Congratulations to all the nominees including: Karen Gaines, Marianne Presser, Veronica Mendez-Cruz, Erika Gerety and Joan Rebecchi.
Guests included past award recipients and VP of Human Resources Helen Gonzales, VP of Student Affairs Eliseo Torres, Dean Roger Schluntz of the School of Architecture and Planning, Staff Council President Loyola Chastain.
For more information contact, cpsce@unm.edu or 277.0278.
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IberoAmerican Science Technology and Education Consortium ISTEC |
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Information and knowledge transfer to the Latin America. Support to marginilized communities in the implementation of Information Communication Technologies as tools for Social Development....more
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