Recognizing community engagement professionals for their transformative collaboration with communities, commitment to justice-oriented work, and impact on the larger community engagement movement

The Nadinne Cruz Community Engagement Professional Award recognizes community engagement professionals who have demonstrated exemplary achievements in their careers through transformative collaboration with communities, commitment to justice-oriented work, and impact on the larger movement to build ethical and effective community engagement locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally.

The award is named in honor of Nadinne Cruz, a leader of community-based experiential learning and an innovator of the movement for the public purposes of higher education. The Nadinne Cruz Award celebrates the ethical leadership and advocacy demonstrated by Community Engagement Professionals.

Nominations & recipients

Nomination & selection

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Recipients

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