2024 TWIN Nominations
Congratulations to 2024 TWIN Award Nominee, Elizabeth (Liz) Johnson!
The CSW is pleased to congratulate the 2024 UC San Diego Tribute to Woman & Industry (TWIN) Award nominee Liz Johnson, Administrative Director, UC San Diego HIV Institute, San Diego Center for AIDS Research, and PREPARE Institute
About the Award
Since the inception of the Tribute to Women & Industry (TWIN) in 1980 by the YWCA, the program has paid tribute to over 2,348 women. With the purpose of augmenting the efforts of companies in recognizing the outstanding achievements of their female employees, the award highlights the work of exceptional women that have been nominated and honored by their firm’s executives, co-workers, families and friends and also recognizes the role of employers in providing advancement opportunities for women in the workplace.
Every year, the University of California San Diego, Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Women accepts nominations and sponsors a candidate for this award. The candidates for the award should meet the following criteria:
- Occupy a management, executive or professional position with responsibility for a major component of organization, OR a position traditionally held by men within organization;
- Outstanding achievement within organization, exceeding normal scope of position;
- Nominee and company must agree to provide information requested on nomination form; all honorees will be photographed for inclusion in the TWIN Souvenir Booklet; and
- Candidate can only be nominated once for TWIN recognition by the same organization.
Please check back in 2025 for the next award cycle.
UC San Diego TWIN Award Past Nominees
2023 Dr. Lisa Elyer, Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Sanford Institute’s Center for Empathy and Compassion
2022 Tana Troke Campana, Senior Assistant Dean and Chief of Staff at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
2020 Christina Chambers, Pediatrics
2019 Blanca Melendrez, UC San Diego Center for Community Health
2018 Jamila K. Stockman, Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health
2017 Kathy Russo, Telecommunications and Information Services, UC San Diego Health
2016 Elizabeth Reed, Department of Medicine, Division of Global Health
2015 Erica Lennard, Chemistry & Biochemistry
2014 Anita Raj, Division of Global Public Health
2013 Andrina Marshall, Skaggs School of Pharmacy
2011 Gabriele Wienhausen, Biology
2010 Diana Bergen, Facilities Management
2009 Kim E. Barrett, Graduate Studies
2008 Linda Doughty, Cal-SOAP
2007 Jeanne Ferrante, Jacobs School of Engineering
2006 Ann Briggs Addo, Resource Management and Planning
2005 Ann L. Craig, Eleanor Roosevelt College
2004 Win Cox, University Communications
2003 Sangeeta Bhatia, Bioengineering
2002 Jonnie Craig-Winston, Human Resources
2001 Katjia Lindenberg, Chem & Biochemistry
2000 Linda Williams, Chancellor’s Office
1999 Debbie Wingard, School of Medicine
1998 Debbie McGraw, School of Medicine
1997 Susan Kirkpatrick, Chancellor’s Office
1996 Josie Foulks, Daycare, Business Affairs
1995 Deborah Spector, Biology
1994 Patricia Kitcher, Philosophy
1993 Ruth Covell, School of Medicine
1992 Marjorie Caserio, Academic Affairs
1991 Kim Pierce, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
1990 Barbara Bry, University Extension
1989 Delia Talamantez, Business Affairs
1988 Pat Collum, Administration
1987 Mae Brown, Student Affairs
1986 Marjorie Javet, Academic Affairs
1985 Faustina Solis, School of Medicine
1984 Laura Long, Business Affairs
1983 Marianne Felice, School of Medicine
1982 Mary Walshok, Academic Affairs
1981 Quelda Wilson, Business Affairs