September 15, 2015

C. June Strickland honored with two awards

In May 2015, Professor C. June Strickland recivied the Distinguished Diversity Advocate Award from theUW School of Nursing, and the “Rising Star” award, Women of Color Empowered lunchon, sponsored by the Northwest Asian Weekly. The following was excerpted in part from UW Nurses Recognition Banquet program, May 6, 2015; and Northwest Asian Weekly, May 23, 2015.

C. June Strickland, PhD, RN, is a citizen of the Cherokee nation from the family of Hawkins. Since 1994 she has been a faculty member in the University of Washington School of Nursing, and is currently Professor in Psychosocial and Community Health. Her research focus is in prevention science and translational/transcultural research with American Indians in the Pacific Northwest.

She exemplifies a commitment to addressing community needs, particularly in communities of color and low-income communities; development and implementation of significant programs to improve the human condition; and outstanding efforts to protect and empower all individuals through her work with Pacific Northwest tribes for the last 18 years.
June knits more than 50 stockings for holiday gifts, beads decorative medicine bag necklaces for her students and shares the art and history of root basket making with her department as a way of enacting her cultural heritage of individual sharing for the good of the whole. She exudes this giving spirit through her community service: working with local and regional faculty and organizations to address recruitment of students, sharing knowledge, mentoring, serving on advisory boards and addressing the health related concerns of American Indians.
Congratulations June, for living by your words: “Find what you love to do and give what you love to do with your community.”