Department of Multicultural and Gender Studies

Congratulations Award Recipients

Award Recipients

Alejandro Alfaro Ramirez

2020 Multicultural & Gender Studies
Change the World Award - General

"Thank you to everyone who helped me grow and made me into the activist I am today. The knowledge you gave me is knowledge that I will continue to build on for the rest of my life."

Natalie Bainbridge

Magna Cum Laude

"My heartfelt gratitude goes to my God, my husband, my family, and my professors for continuously inspiring and encouraging me. Congratulations Class of 2020!"

Ruby Ferguson

Magna Cum Laude

Kassandra Garcia

2020 Multicultural & Gender Studies
Change the World Award - CHLX

"They will not know I have gone away to come back. For the ones I left behind. For the ones who can not out." - Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street

Kimberly Gomez

2020 Multicultural & Gender Studies
Change the World Award - Women's Studies

"our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry."
-rupi kaur (women of colour)

Briana Guerrero-Vega

2020 Louis-Goldblatt Award for Social Change

Briana Guerrero-Vega is a double major in social work and multicultural gender studies. She is a first-generation Chicana student who been accepted into the MSW graduate program here at Chico State this coming school year.

Delaney Jones

Cum Laude

"Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage"-Paulo Freirebacks
"Thank you to all my loved ones."

Darlasia Miller

2020 Multicultural & Gender Studies
Outstanding Student Award - Women's Studies

"Breaking generational curses one degree at a time! We made it!"

Maeve O'Brien

Cum Laude

Romelo Thornton

2020 Richard Merritt Duncan Advocacy Award
2020 Multicultural & Gender Studies
Outstanding Student Award - General Option