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BOISE STATE WOMEN�S CENTER ANNOUNCES LARRY SELLAND AWARD WINNERS

The Boise State Women�s Center has named this year�s Larry Selland Humanitarian Award recipients.

Boise State student Leobardo Morales, president of the Boise State Organizacion de Estudiantes Latino-Americanos (OELA), is the student winner. Morales� passion for social justice became apparent at a young age, said Women�s Center Coordinator Melissa Wintrow. Seeing the struggles his parents faced every day as migrant farmworkers, he wanted more for his siblings and himself. Morales became involved in community activism, speaking in support of the farm worker minimum wage legislation in 1999. Currently, Morales is lobbying for the passage of a driver�s license bill that will greatly impact the immigrant community.

This year's faculty/staff award recipient is Cynthia Clark, associate professor in the department of nursing. Clark's involvement in a wide variety of projects and activities speaks to her concerns for diversity and women's issues on campus and throughout the community. Wintrow said that Clark�s community involvement speaks to her deep personal integrity and sense of fairness in matters of race and gender. Clark has served Boise State and the community as chair of the Women's Center Advisory Board, chair of the Idaho Adolescent Suicide Prevention Team and member of SPAN-Idaho, faculty organizer of health clinics for migrant and seasonal farmworkers, board member for the Idaho State Board of Nursing Program for Impaired Nurses, and an activist for breast cancer prevention services in rural and frontier Idaho.

The Larry Selland Humanitarian Award was created in 1997 to honor those men and women of Boise State who best exemplify the caring nature of the late Larry Selland, a tireless advocate for women and minorities and an outstanding role model. Selland was also deeply committed to improving educational opportunities for under-served populations. Two awards, one for a student and one for a faculty or staff member, are given each year during the celebration of Women�s History Month.

This year�s awards will be presented during the Larry Selland Humanitarian Award Breakfast from

8-9:15 a.m. on Tuesday, March 18, in the Lookout Room in the Student Union.

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Melissa Wintrow

Boise State Women�s Center

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Sherry Squires

communications and marketing

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