United Academics Announces Brace Award Winners for 2004-2005
The United Academics Jeffrey Brace Book Award winners for 2004-2005 are Leniece Flowers, a Junior Sociology Major from the Bronx, New York; Colin Robinson, a Junior Anthropology Major from Putney, Vermont; and Anna Telensky, a First year Women's Studies Major from Jericho, Vermont.
Flowers, Robinson, and Telensky exemplify not only academic excellence but also an active commitment to achieving social justice. Leniece Flowers has been an undergraduate teaching assistant in Racism and American Culture, empowering her peers to combat racial inequality, often by using unconventional and refreshing approaches to the problem. She takes a wide range of challenging course work as she prepares herself for a future teaching and fighting for racial and economic justice. Colin Robinson is a native Vermonter who has been extremely active both locally and nationally in social justice issues. In high school he helped found the nationally recognized anti-child labor organization Child Labor Education and Action. While at UVM, Colin has been a student organizer locally in support of the Service and Maintenance Workers Union and United Academics and nationally in sending contingents of UVM students to Washington demonstrations. Anna Telensky is another Vermonter who has been a leader and organizer concerned with gender and economic justice since high school. In her brief time at UVM thus far, Anna has brought her passion for social justice to a variety of projects focused on alleviating the damage caused to victims of rape and domestic violence as well as on seeking equality for all regardless of gender or sexual orientation.
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Last updated March 25, 2008