Michelle Bellino receives the Carol Hollenshead Award from CEW+
The CEW+ Inspire Awards honor faculty members for their efforts to support equity, advance human rights, mentor students and junior staff members and advocate for their concerns.
Associate Professor Michelle Bellino is among four faculty who will be honored with an Inspire Award from the U-M Center for the Education of Women+ (CEW+) next month, reports The Record.
Bellino will receive the Carol Hollenshead Award for her leadership in creating transformative learning spaces in higher education, and her sustained dedication to the advancement of educational rights for marginalized populations.
The Carol Hollenshead Award was created in honor of former director Carol Hollenshead’s 20-year tenure at the Center for the Education of Women+ and honors awardees who have proven that social change is possible through persistent hard work and who demonstrate that one person can make a lasting difference in their communities.
“A cornerstone of [Bellino]’s scholarly work is her research in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, where she has directly engaged communities traditionally excluded from formal educational spaces,” wrote Marcela Ortiz G., a PhD candidate in educational studies at the Marsal School, in a nominating letter.
Bellino has also worked to shape policy at the national and international levels, founded the Coalition for Welcoming and Belonging to build community and awareness about migration and displacement across campus, and co-led the Global Education Discussion Group with Marsal colleagues (Donald Freeman and Melinda Richardson) to support students' interests in learning about education in international and transnational contexts.
