UW-Madison Vice Provost for Diversity and Climate Damon Williams was awarded the W.E.B. DuBois Community Advocacy Award.
The award is given annually by the Madison branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to a citizen who works to foster equality and is named for the civil rights activist who helped found the organization in 1909.
""Dr. Williams has assumed the mantle of working toward diversity in higher education at the state's flagship university campus with unflinching commitment,"" Madison NAACP President Linda Hoskins said in a statement.
""We're proud to present him with this recognition of his work to date and the goals he has set for himself, the university as an international institution and the entire state of Wisconsin,"" she said.
Williams works on diversity projects at UW-Madison including Posse, the Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives, the Center for Educational Opportunity and the Pre-college Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence (PEOPLE).
