Celebrating the 2025 CSW | Streisand Center Award Recipients
On Thursday, May 15, 2025, the UCLA Botanical Garden bloomed with joy, pride, and purpose as the UCLA Center for the Study of Women | Streisand Center gathered our community to honor the 2024–2025 award recipients. Faculty, students, family, and friends came together to celebrate the bold, rigorous, and deeply transformative work being done in the name of feminist research, justice, and care.
From research that advances Black feminist thought to community-based approaches to healing, from archival inquiries into reproductive justice to groundbreaking analyses of sexuality, labor, and state power, this year’s cohort of honorees embodies the Center’s commitment to intersectional, transdisciplinary scholarship that addresses the most urgent issues of our time.
We extend our deepest thanks to our donors and the awards committees, whose thoughtfulness and care made this celebration possible.
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Student Awards
We proudly recognized the recipients of the Constance Coiner Awards, Elizabeth Blackwell, MD Awards, Renaissance Awards, and the Penny Kanner, Jean Stone, and Paula Stone Dissertation Research Fellowships. This year also marked continued support for critical Black feminist research through the Alisa Bierria and Mariame Kaba Graduate Fellowships, as well as Travel Grants supporting feminist inquiry across borders and disciplines.
CONSTANCE COINER AWARDS
- GRADUATE RECIPIENT: Rocio Rivera-Murillo
- UNDERGRADUATE RECIPIENT: Durriya Ahmed
RENAISSANCE AWARDS
- Monica Benros-DeBarros
- Mariko Plumlee
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL, MD, AWARDS
- GRADUATE RECIPIENT: Yurim Lee
- UNDERGRADUATE RECIPIENT: Traja Golightly
PENNY KANNER DISSERTATION RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
- Kristen Dorsey
- Janine Sun Rogers
- Yu Shi
JEAN STONE DISSERTATION RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
- Kimberly Fuentes
- Pharren Miller
- Ebony Oldham
- Rosie Stockton
PAULA STONE LEGAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
- Eunjin Lee
ALISA BIERRIA GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP IN BLACK FEMINIST RESEARCH
- Akua Agyen
MARIAME KABA GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP IN BLACK FEMINIST RESEARCH
- Naomi Adams
TRAVEL GRANTS
- Naomi Adams
- Nidia Bautista
- Cihangir Can
- Leila Chiddick
- Nohely Guzman
- Vivan Hernandez
- Dana Kopel
- Orisha Lamon
- Katherine Lee
- Ellen Lu
- Eunhee Park
- Lori Pirinjian
- Emme Rackham
- Anna Robinson-Sweet
- Janine Sun Rogers
- Sienna Ruiz
- Rosie Stockton
- Tina Yang
Faculty Awards
FACULTY RESEARCH GRANTS
We also recognized faculty whose innovative work continues to lead the way in feminist and social justice research:
- Genevieve Carpio
- Leigh-Michil George
- Ayasha Guerin
- Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
- Zeynep Korkman
- Cindy Anh Nguyen
- Carlos Santos
- Jessica Schwartz
- Wendy Sung
Congratulations again to all of our awardees. Your brilliance, courage, and commitment inspire us all. The CSW | Streisand Center is honored to support your work as you continue to expand the boundaries of scholarship, justice, and care.
