Celebrating the AY2025-2026 CSW | Streisand Center Award Recipients

On Tuesday, May 12, 2026, the UCLA Center for the Study of Women|Streisand Center gathered our community to honor the 2025–2026 award recipients in our center! Surrounded by friends, fellow students, and faculty, we came together to celebrate the future of innovative and transformative feminist research. In the form of a happy hour, this celebration recognized recipients work with insightful conversations, small bites, and custom CSW|Streisand bookmarks!

This year’s cohort of honorees represents the Center’s mission to tackle today’s most pressing issues through an intersectional feminist lens. Because our recipients’ projects spanned a diverse array of topics, we were able to highlight important contributions to Black feminist theory, community-driven healing, reproductive justice, and systemic analyses of sexuality and power.

We are so grateful to our donors, awards committees, and community members for their generous support which brought this celebration to life.

View the awards program.

Student Awards

We proudly recognized the recipients of the Constance Coiner Awards, Elizabeth Blackwell, MD Awards, Renaissance Awards, and the Penny Kanner, Jean Stone, Paula Stone Legal Research Fellowships, as well as Travel Grants supporting feminist inquiry across borders and disciplines.

BLACK FEMINIST INITIATIVE 

• Madison Joyce Aubey
• Leandro Stoffels

CONSTANCE COINER GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP

• RECIPIENT: 
  • Da In Choi
• HONORABLE MENTION: 
  • Vivian Hernandez

CONSTANCE COINER UNDERGRADUATE PRIZE 

• Christina Morcus 
• Andreanela Ordoñez Carbajal

ELIZABETH BLACKWELL, MD, AWARDS

• GRADUATE RECIPIENT: 
  • Karla Aguilar Marquez 
• UNDERGRADUATE RECIPIENTS:
  • Saanvi Rai
  • Avantika Aggarwal
  • Hannah Boughanem 

FALL 2025 GRANT AWARD 

• Aiko Dzikowski
• Wesleigh Gates
• Julian Kaptanian 
• Aidan Le 
• Molly Smith

JEAN STONE DISSERTATION RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP

• Nicola Chávez Courtright
• Karla Aguilar Marquez 
• Patty Gone
• Leah Nugent

PAULA STONE LEGAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP

• Estefania Saravia 

PENNY KANNER DISSERTATION RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP

• Aiza Khan

WINTER 2026 TRAVEL GRANTS

• Hanan Abdellatif
• Izem Aral
• Samatha Elizabeth Eisert
• Justin Foster
• Sara Greenman-Spear
• Karla Nahomy Hernandez
• Christina Seoyoung Jang
• Harmeet Kaur Kalsi
• Amanda Jane Millat
• Andreanela Ordoñez Carbajal
• Minh-Anh Pham
• Leandro Stoffels
• Isabella Rivera Volquez
• Cheng-Hsiu Yang
• Haiyi Zhen

Congratulations again to all of our awardees! Your commitment and work ethic are so inspiring to the CSW | Streisand Center and we are honored to support your work as you continue to expand the boundaries of scholarship, justice, and care.

Learn more about our awards and funding opportunities.