As the Victoria High School counselor left his office, he shut the door behind him. Left alone inside was Yolanda Zepeda, an academically promising Victoria High senior, and a tall stack of applications to Texas colleges.
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Interim Vice Provost Zepeda honored with 2024 Social Justice Award
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion congratulates Yolanda Zepeda, interim vice provost for diversity and inclusion, who has been honored with the Central Ohio 2024 Social Justice Award for Education Advocacy.
ODI staffer awarded UnidosUS grant
ODI is proud to share that Johana Coronado, a Program Specialist for ODI's Latine Student Success (LSS), has been awarded a grant from UnidosUS to deliver the Avanzando Through College Leadership Program. This grant provides a curriculum foundation for students who want to build their college success and leadership skills in a learning community that uplifts Latine cultures, experiences and perspectives.
ODI staff honored with annual award
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion is pleased to honor ODI staff members Audrey Howard and Charity Butler with 2024 Rose Wilson-Hill Staff of the Year Award.
Larry Williamson Jr. honored for his decades of service
Larry Williamson spent a career making the Frank W. Hale Black Cultural Center into a community pillar of Ohio State, a home away from home for generations of students.
On Tuesday, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion honored that work as friends, family, colleagues, and former students gathered to honor Williamson's service and celebrate his 2024 Distinguished Service Award, the university's highest staff award.
Latine Student Success Program Specialist is honored
Johana Coronado, a program specialist in ODI's Latine Student Success Program has been awarded the 2024 Office of Student Life Outstanding Academic Mentor award. Johana was nominated by Alpha Psi Lambda, a fraternity that ODI was instrumental in establishing 40 years ago.
ODI staffers honored in Who's Who in Black Columbus
A trio of distinguished Office of Diversity and Inclusion [ODI] staffers were part of a group of 31 faculty and staff members from across the university who were featured recently in the 18th edition of Who's Who in Black Columbus.
Williamson era draws to a close for Hale Black Cultural Center
As Williamson retires, the longtime Hale Center director reflects on his life's work and legacy.
More than four decades after arriving at The Ohio State University as a young graduate student, Larry Williamson Jr. steps down today after 30 years as director of the Frank W. Hale Jr. Black Cultural Center.
Hale Center Director reflects on 30th Anniversary for Ohio State’s Black Cultural Center: 1989 - 2019
Since the opening day of the Hale Black Cultural Center in 1989, Director Larry Williamson has been a central figure helping to shape a critical gathering spot in Ohio State's rich cultural history.
Initially recruited as a young graduate student in art education to curate the Hale Center's art collection, Williamson has guided the center's growth in recent decades after being passed the baton by the center's namesake, Dr. Frank Hale.
Full-time ODI therapist applies lessons learned from pandemic
Peter Oduwole is finally catching his breath.
The embedded therapist at ODI since 2019, Oduwole's practice was turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent mental health crisis that had students (and others in society) seeking new solutions.
After several years of stressed students packing his schedule, Oduwole said the return to normalcy in 2023 has brought him a more manageable caseload as well as time to apply the hard-earned lessons he learned during the pandemic.