CEHD Student Services adviser Nate Whittaker has been awarded the University’s 2013 Josie R. Johnson Human Rights and Social Justice Award. The award recognizes University faculty, staff, and students who are creating respectful and inclusive living, learning, and working environments.
Whittaker has a long history of working with and advocating for low-income, underrepresented, and disabled people regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation. He helped develop a new first-year orientation course for TRiO programs, facilitates a global seminar exploring social change in South Africa, and is a community activist fighting for educational access of all people.
He will be honored at a reception on May 7 at the Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center (UROC) in North Minneapolis. This is the second year in a row that the award has been given to a CEHD Student Services professional.