Dawn Bounds is 2020-22 Inclusive Excellence awardee

Assistant Professor Dawn Bounds.

Assistant Professor Dawn Bounds has been named as one of the inaugural recipients of the Chancellor’s Inclusive Excellence Award for 2020-22.

“The honor recognizes incoming faculty for their deep expertise and demonstrated ability to advance inclusive excellence,” writes Douglas Haynes, vice chancellor for Diversity Equity & Inclusion, in his announcement.

“They represent diverse disciplines and approaches to championing diversity, equity and inclusion in their scholarship, pedagogy and service.”

The award is a two-year appointment that concludes with a public forum during which the campus and wider community can learn more about their research activities. Awardees receive $50,000 to continue scholarship, pedagogy and exemplary service leadership.

Watch Bounds’s presentation

The awardees were recognized at a virtual gathering where they presented their research. 

Bounds is studying an intervention for adolescents with a high number of adverse childhood experiences along with their caregivers in her study Garnering Resilience in Traumatized Youth and Families (GRIT). 

She hopes the mental health and wellness intervention will ultimately be a tool primary care providers can refer patients to as needed.

Over the past year, she has trained a diverse cadre of nursing and public health students to be health coaches for a pilot study on GRIT.

Other inclusive excellence awardees

• Cindy Archer, School of Law
• Gustavo Carlo, School of Education
• Anne Marie Piper, Department of Informatics, Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences
• Julie Washington, School of Education
• Alexandra Florea, School of Physical Sciences
• Carolina Valdivia, School of Social Ecology
• Tiara Na’puti, School of Social Sciences
• Jamelia Morgan, School of Law
• Naomi Chester, The Henry Samueli School of Engineering