The 2022-23 Jennifer Kelly Scholarship Recipients

Since 2002, the Dizikes Faculty Teaching Award has celebrated the work of outstanding teachers and their students. The award honors the work of faculty and supports students who aspire to learning and critical thinking. Faculty recipients of the award receive a grant and designate students from a Humanities Division program to receive scholarships that recognize academic accomplishment.

IZADORA AMARIS LOPEZ MCGAWLEY

Crititcal Race and Ethnic Studies

Izadora (they/them) is a senior CRES major at UCSC who was born and raised in the binational community of South San Diego County. They are a 3rd generation Chicane who is committed to organizing in the region they are from in order to take part in a global movement for people’s’ liberation. UC, Divest from war! Pay your workers! And give land back to indigenous people!

YITONG LEI

Crititcal Race and Ethnic Studies

Yitong is a scholar of Ethnic Studies and East Asian Studies at UCSC graduating in the spring. In study and in life, they are dedicated to interrogating the construction—or constructions—of race, borders, gender, and more. As a longtime student journalist, they are also guided by the mission to tell untold stories, to amplify silenced voices, and to serve the communities they live in. We have much to unlearn, and infinitely more to learn.

JUSTIN CURRAN

Crititcal Race and Ethnic Studies

Justin is currently working on a thoughtful and nuanced analysis of Stop Cop City, a collective of organizers resisting a police military base in Weelaunee forest and stolen Muskogee land in Atlanta, as a model for abolitionist organizing that has decolonization at its center.