American Studies student Kristin Ladd was most recently awarded the student honor for USU’s Diversity Award. The purpose of this prestigious award is to recognize individuals or organizations who further the principles and values of affirmative action, equal opportunity, and diversity on the campus and/or in the community. Award criteria includes outstanding candidates who “nourish acceptance of individual differences” and who “integrates diversity concepts and values into academic curriculum, management functions, or community service.” This honor is well-deserved, and it recognizes Kristin’s extensive work in Sustainability Education, with on-campus Latino/Latina groups, and with the USU Ally Program and the LGBTQA community at large. USU President Stan Albrecht will honor Kristin and the other campus and community Diversity Award recipients at a luncheon in their honor.
Additionally, Kristin recently received word that her essay “Demystifying the Cowboy Through His Song: How Cowboy Poetry and Music Create a Common Language Between Multiple-Use Conservationists and Forever-Wild Preservationists to Meet the Goals of Sustainable Agriculture” will be published in the journal Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (formerly known as the Journal of Sustainable Agriculture). Co-authored with Dr. Roslynn Brain of USU’s Department of Natural resource, the essay nevertheless lists Kristin as the lead author. To read the forthcoming essay, follow the link below or see the bulletin board outside the DGS’s office (312G).
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/21683565.2013.763886
Join me in congratulating Kristin’s impressive accomplishments.
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