Ferreira, Dawson Head Receive Chancellor’s Awards at Racial Healing Brunch
Sidonio (Sid) Ferreira and Erika Dawson Head are the recipients of two new Chancellor’s Awards, presented at the Day of Racial Healing Brunch held Jan. 30.
Ferreira, special assistant to the vice chancellor for student affairs and campus life, received the Transformational Leadership Award. Dawson Head, executive director of diversity and inclusive community development for the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, was given the Emerging Leadership Award.
Presenting the honors was event host Alaina Macaulay, senior director for inclusion and strategic engagement.
The featured speaker for the event was author, activist and jazz singer LaTosha Brown. Brown is a contributor to The New York Times and a senior practice fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Brown is also the co-founder of Black Voters Matter Fund and Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute, designed to boost Black voter registration and turnout, as well as increase power in marginalized, predominantly Black communities.