Sibeko Named 2025 ADVANCE Faculty Peer Mentor Award Winner
The award recognizes the critically important work faculty members perform in mentoring and supporting their colleagues.
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Professor and Chair of Nutrition Lindiwe Sibeko has been named one of the nine winners of the 2025 UMass ADVANCE Faculty Peer Mentor Award.
The ADVANCE Faculty Peer Mentor Awards for each college recognize the invaluable contributions of faculty members in mentoring and supporting their colleagues' professional development. Research shows that faculty peer mentoring is key to greater inclusion and equity, and UMass ADVANCE recognizes that vital work of mentoring colleagues.
The winners, selected from a competitive pool of nominees, were honored by Fouad Abd-El-Khalick, provost and senior vice chancellor for academic affairs, and Wilmore Webley, senior vice provost for equity and inclusion, at the 2025 ADVANCE Annual Distinguished Lecture held on March 10 in the Marriott Center.
Faculty from across ranks and colleges celebrate Professor Sibeko’s “gift for mentoring” that centers equity as it uplifts and empowers others. “Lindi has not only mentored me through the research process, she has also been a mentor in navigating life as a faculty of color,” writes one peer from outside of the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, while four SPHHS colleagues credit her “exceptional mentorship and leadership” with helping them overcome barriers to advancement as women of color. “Her support in this area is invaluable, fostering a welcoming and inclusive environment for all faculty members, and especially of women of color and Black faculty on the UMass campus and at institutions across the nation.”
Read more about this year's ADVANCE Faculty Peer Mentoring Award recipients.