Faculty and Staff News

Nancy Amidei Honored with UW Outstanding Public Service Award

We are thrilled to announce that Nancy Amidei, our energetic advocacy and public policy educator and frequent lobbyist in Olympia for positive social change, is being honored on June 12 with the UW Outstanding Public Service Award!

Nancy is a senior lecturer at the School of Social Work and director of the Civic Engagement Project. As a private citizen, she organizes Social Work Lobby Day every year and visits the state legislature almost every week that it is in session to lobby for such bills as the working families state tax credit. Through her weekly Policy Watch, teaching, and informal educating wherever she goes, Nancy has succeeded in getting many other citizens involved in advocating for the issues that they are passionate about.

This UW award, initiated in 1980, recognizes faculty and staff efforts to improve the quality of people’s lives locally, nationally, or internationally. It is presented at the University's annual Recognition Ceremony in June and includes a $5,000 award.  The selection committee considers the nature and extent of the public service activity, the amount of time and effort involved, and the lasting impact it has had. The basis for the nomination may be social, cultural, civic, education-related, or health-related achievements.  It may be uncompensated consulting work within a nominee’s area of expertise or volunteer work in other areas. Nancy meets virtually all of these criteria!

You can read the announcement in today’s UWeek: http://uwnews.org/uweek/uweekarticle.asp?visitsource=uwkmail&articleID=40399

As noted in the last paragraph of this UWeek story, the award winners will be honored at a special Universitywide Recognition Ceremony, scheduled for 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Thursday, June 12, in Meany Hall, with a reception to follow in the foyer. The ceremony is free and open to the public. University Week will publish a special awards supplement profiling all the winners on June 5.

You will hear more about Nancy’s extraordinary achievements in future communications.