On behalf of the Office for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity, the Trailblazer Project Committee is seeking nominations for the Trailblazer Project Class of 2019. The project is a portraiture initiative aimed at diversifying the images that appear in campus common areas.
Nominees should:
- Be alumni, faculty, staff, students (undergraduate or graduate), postdoctoral scholars, researchers or friends of CWRU;
- Belong to underrepresented groups;
- Have strong ties to the university;
- Be or have been trailblazers in their respective fields;
- Contribute to the diversity of CWRU’s history; and
- Embody the values and spirit of CWRU.
Individuals can nominate a distinguished CWRU community member through the Google Form by March 31.
For more information, contact Regina Gonzalez, director of diversity and strategic initiatives, at regina.gonzalez@case.edu.
Previous Trailblazer Project classes
The first two classes of the project honor 12 distinguished CWRU community members of color with portraits that are now displayed in the atrium of the Kelvin Smith Library and in the Toepfer Room in Adelbert Hall. These individuals made history at Case Western Reserve University, in the community and beyond:
Class of 2017
- Fred D. Gray (LAW ’54, HON ’92)
- Sara Harper (CLC ’48, LAW ’52)
- Robert P. Madison (ARC ’48, HON ’04)
- David Satcher (GRS ’70, MED ’70, HON ’90)
- Louis Stokes (CLC ’49, HON ’91)
- Stephanie Tubbs Jones (FSM ’71, LAW ’74)
Class of 2018
- Jefferson Jones, DMD
- Steve Minter, PhD (SAS ’63)
- Judge Jean Murrell Capers, JD (EDU ’32)
- Sarah Short Austin, MSSA (SAS ’62)
- Joan Southgate, MSSA (SAS ’54)
- May Wykle, PhD, RN, FAAN, FGSA (NUR ’62, ’69; GRS ’81, nursing)