2023 President's Award for Leadership Awardees

Chancellor's Awards for Leadership Awardees

The Chancellor's Awards for Leadership are an honor bestowed annually to students and others representing the top leaders at WSU. Meet the past recipients.

2023 Awardees

Undergraduate Students

  • Damien Isac Alvarado, murrow college of communication, WSU Pullman
  • Sofia Aronovsky, psychology & sociology, WSU Pullman
  • Alvin Joseph Azana, Computer Science, WSU Pullman; Virginia E. Thomas Endowed Scholarship recipient.
  • Collin Bannister, philosophy & pre-law, WSU Pullman
  • Andrew E. Bartelheimer, animal science, WSU Pullman
  • Meghan Bernard, biology, WSU Pullman
  • John Bussey, materials science & engineering, WSU Pullman
  • Daniela N Alpire Cabrera, finance & music, WSU Pullman
  • Vanessa Solorzano-Cardenas, psychology & neuroscience, WSU Pullman
  • Wilmer Castillo, neuroscience pre-medical, WSU Pullman
  • Amaris Cupples, political science, WSU global
  • Shaelynn Erickson, civil engineering, WSU Pullman
  • Shira Feinberg, computer science, WSU Pullman
  • Joseph Franklin, communications, WSU Pullman
  • Hannah M. Healy, medical science, WSU Pullman
  • Alexander T. Heinrich, physics, WSU Pullman
  • Jerrod Christian Knight, hospitality business management, WSU Vancouver
  • Tanner Lack, environmental and ecosystem science, WSU Pullman
  • Isabella X. Lawrence, biology, WSU Tri-Cities
  • Amari Skyler Lowery, psychology, WSU Pullman
  • Gabrielle Lund, environmental science & political science, WSU Pullman
  • Jacob Martinez, advertising & broadcast production, WSU Pullman
  • Anna McDonald, biology & data analytics, WSU Pullman
  • Shiari McNeil, elementary education, WSU Pullman
  • Sophie Mejia, political science & philosophy, WSU Pullman
  • Antonio Fajardo-Mora, psychology & comparative ethnic studies, WSU Pullman
  • Kyle Joseph Morgan, zoology (pre-med), WSU Pullman
  • Razan Magdi Osman, civil engineering, WSU Tri-Cities
  • Caitlin Ottaway, neuroscience & psychology, WSU Pullman
  • Lara Leonie Sophia Palladino, international business & marketing, WSU Pullman
  • Maritay Anahi Mendoza Quiroz, political science & foreign languages and cultures, WSU Pullman
  • Joshna Prasanna Raghavan, computer science, WSU Pullman
  • Cooper Allen Razey, mathematics teaching, WSU Pullman
  • Carlos Enrique Romero, human development youth and adolescents, WSU Pullman
  • Sidney Serna, digital technology and culture, WSU Pullman
  • Sophie Kate Shirali, neuroscience, WSU Pullman
  • Shareni Morelia Ojeda-Silva, human resources management​, WSU Pullman
  • Ashley Claire Swanson, music education​, WSU Pullman
  • Cheyanna Wilson, digital technology & culture​, WSU Tri-Cities
  • Alexander Zaragoza, psychology​, WSU Tri-Cities

Graduate Students

  • Marwa Aly, engineering science​, WSU Pullman
  • Ajay Barman, individual interdisciplinary doctoral program​, WSU Pullman
  • Brandon Thomas Cockburn, cultural studies & social thought in education​, WSU Pullman
  • Shaye Nicole Fowler, doctorate in pharmacy​, WSU Spokane
  • Md Mahedi Hasan, statistics​, WSU Pullman
  • Zachary James Hill, doctor of pharmacy​, WSU Spokane
  • Dowen Mae Ibarra Jocson, entomology​, WSU Pullman
  • Gurdeep Singh Raina, management​, WSU Pullman
  • Tanya Marie Weber, doctor of veterinary medicine​, WSU Pullman
  • Akshaya Venkatesh, computer science​, WSU Pullman

Faculty and Staff

  • Joseph Crossno, assistant director, office of research assurances​, WSU Pullman
  • Lisa Johnson-Shull, manager, academic engagement and student achievement​, WSU Pullman
  • Sergey Lapin, associate director of the program in data analytics​, WSU Everett
  • Sonia Isabel López-López, assistant professor of spanish, career track​, WSU Pullman
  • David Makin, associate professor, director of the complex social interaction laboratory​, WSU Pullman
  • Anne McCoy, deputy director of athletics/SWA, WSU Pullman
  • Marcela Pattinson, director, undocumented initiatives​, WSU Pullman
  • Yoshie Sano, professor, college of agricultural, human, & natural resource sciences​, WSU Vancouver

Registered Student Organizations (RSOs)

  • Association for Computing Machinery
  • Indian Students Association
  • Society of Women Engineers

Community Organizations

  • Pullman Arts Foundation
  • Regency Pullman
  • YMCA of the Palouse