OSCAR W. NEALE FELLOWSHIP Tessa Tracy - The Chain Collaboration Graduate Student, Community & Organizational Leadership
COLLEGE OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES STUDENT HEROES AWARD Recipient: Emma Dix Major: Early Childhood Education
Emma Dix founded Operation Sparkle, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering the lives of area high school girls for a prom experience–free of charge. Emma believes every girl should be able to experience the magic and joy of simply being a teenage girl regardless of financial stability. The School of Education student was inspired by her own experience of extreme bullying, which allowed Emma to grow in resilience and strength and lit the spark for her passion to support young ladies in similar situations.
COLLEGE OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES FACULTY HEROES AWARD Recipient: Lynda Fernholz
Since 2015, Lynda Fernholz has served in a leadership capacity with several non-profit organizations to increase the literacy proficiency rates of children and adolescents living in rural communities in Nicaragua. She travels to Nicaragua frequently to provide teacher training for Nicaraguan adolescents and adults who teach literacy skills and strategies to children ages 5-12. Libraries are the center of activities in these small rural communities, including “Lynda’s Library” which opened in 2019. Both the women and the children of this rural community come to the library for books, art projects, games, cooking classes, sewing, while creating a sense of empowerment through learning. Lynda works with elementary children throughout Wisconsin to create photo books, drawings, and picture books to donate to this library. Lynda’s work helps honor the uniqueness of all learners and actively demonstrates the knowledges, skills and dispositions of effective teachers positively impacting our diverse world.
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