About the Awards
The 2024 Diversity and Inclusion Impact Awards recognized a faculty and staff member from the College of Arts and Sciences, School of Leadership and Education Sciences and Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering. Awardees were nominated and selected for their outstanding contributions and exceptional leadership in advancing diversity, equity, inclusion and social justice on- and off-campus. All awardees have provided exemplary service to the university community, worked tirelessly to support students and have demonstrated a sustained commitment to making the University of San Diego a more diverse, equitable and anti-racist institution. The awards program celebrated the numerous contributions of each awardee, and expressed the university's gratitude and appreciation for their sustained commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and social justice.
2024 Award Recipients
- V Dozier, MLIS
- Jannise T. Baclig, PhD
- Bianca Vazquez,BA
- Jason Campbell, PhD
- Jacqueline Greulich
- Mary Jo Wiggins
- Emily Nagisa Keehn
- Tom Lupfer, MA
- Lorena Silvas
- TJ Tallie, PhD
- Amanda Ruiz, PhD
- Kristopher G. Hall, PhD
- Perla Lahana Myers, PhD
- Lissette Martinez
Faculty Award Recipient
Copley Library
V Dozier, MLIS is an education librarian and associate professor. She is the embedded librarian for the School of Leadership and Educational Sciences (SOLES) where she facilitates library instruction sessions, research support workshops & consultations, and curates a resource collection designed to support SOLES’ interdisciplinary teaching & research needs, with an emphasis on the needs of BIPOC & other underrepresented faculty, staff, and students.
Dozier also serves as Copley Library’s coordinator of Graduate Student Programs and department head of the Embedded Librarians Unit. As coordinator and department head, she supports student & faculty success by engaging strategic partnerships, coordinating professional development opportunities for graduate-serving and embedded librarians, and assessing Copley’s graduate and embedded services to improve access and quality.
Dozier’s research interests include critical librarianship & pedagogy, the experiences of BIPOC and other marginalized populations in academic libraries, and graphic novels/comics in educational settings. She’s presented at multiple academic library and education conferences, including the Association for College & Research Libraries, LOEX, and the American Educational Research Association. Recent publications include Existing on Erasure’s Edge: BIPOC Treatment in Peer Review (Journal of Radical Librarianship, 2023); When DEIA Meets Faith in Heightened Tensions: DEIA initiatives at Catholic-serving institutions (Theological Librarianship, 2022); and a book chapter in Implementing excellence in diversity, equity, and inclusion: A handbook for academic libraries (ACRL, 2022). Dozier’s work-in-progress includes a forthcoming edited volume on DEIA in Faith-Based Institutions from Litwin Books.
She earned degrees from Tuskegee University, Duke University, and the University of Alabama. In addition to serving as a member of local, regional, and national library committees and organizations, Dozier is a dedicated member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated.