{"id":140018,"date":"2024-12-05T17:15:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T23:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/?p=140018"},"modified":"2024-12-05T17:30:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T23:30:02","slug":"medina-wins-outstanding-woman-of-color-in-education-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/medina-wins-outstanding-woman-of-color-in-education-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Medina wins outstanding woman of color in education award"},"content":{"rendered":"
Yolanda Medina, a Marine Corps veteran and director of 51ÁÔÆæ\u2019s Military and Veterans Resource Center since 2018, is one of 12 recipients of the 2024 Outstanding Women of Color in Education Award given by the Universities of Wisconsin.<\/p>\n
The award is an honor given each year to faculty, staff, students or community members to recognize their achievements in advancing equity and inclusion for people of color within the Universities of Wisconsin as well as communities across the state.<\/p>\n More than 400 women of color have been recognized for their transformational work with the award, now in its 29th<\/sup> year.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Universities of Wisconsin have a longstanding commitment to inclusion at our universities,\u201d said Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman. \u201cWe are proud to honor these women of color whose achievements are helping our campuses and communities.\u201d<\/p>\n Other 2024 Outstanding Women of Color in Education honorees are:<\/p>\n Each UW university was invited to select one woman to receive the award, which highlights each recipient\u2019s contributions to improving the status and climate for women and people of color and to advancing the work of diversity, equity and inclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yolanda Medina, director of 51ÁÔÆæ\u2019s Military and Veterans Resource Center since 2018, is one of 12 recipients of the 2024 Outstanding Women of Color in Education Award given by the Universities of Wisconsin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40008,"featured_media":140019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[174,200],"tags":[],"section":[122,126],"display_categories":[352,116],"related-coverage":[178],"uwmnews-feed":[],"class_list":["post-140018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-in-brief","section-campus-community","section-campus-news","display_categories-top-story-tertiary","display_categories-top-story-section","related-coverage-veterans"],"yoast_head":"\n
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