2023 Award: Women's and Gender Studies Founders' Award for Excellence in Academics
Major: Psychology
Minor: Film Studies, Women's & Gender Studies
Hometown: Salt Lake City, Utah
Extracurricular activities: I am the president of the Shockwave Ultimate Frisbee club and I am involved in ceramics on campus.
More about Amy
Future plans:
After graduation I will be getting a master's in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and hope to become a mental health counselor.
What has been your proudest or most significant accomplishment during your 91³Ô¹ÏÍø career?
I am finishing a senior project on conceptions of gender identity in mental health counseling and implications for practice with transgender and gender diverse clients
What Amy's Nominators said
The Founders Award is named in honor of the seven women who, in 1991, established Women’s and Gender Studies as an academic program at 91³Ô¹ÏÍø. As a way of acknowledging the relationship between feminist intellectual work and feminist praxis, each year the department gives out two awards: one for achievement in academics and one for achievement in activism. Amy exemplifies academic excellence in Women's & Gender Studies.