On November 15, 2023, Rutgers University’s Committee to Advance Our Common Purposes (CACP) honored Julia Baumanis (second from left, above) Torchbearer Award. According to CACP, the Torchbearer Award recognizes those who work to further “diversity, inclusion, equity, and access…through their academic research, teaching, community engagement, and/or workplace engagement, program development, and leadership.”
One of Baumanis‘s students, Zoë D’Amico, nominated her for the award. “She works tirelessly to provide the best environment for her students, teach future educators how to be inclusive and incorporate diversity in their own teaching, and use her own platform to empower her own students, community, and women in her field,” D’Amico said in her speech at the ceremony, which took place at the Rutgers Club.
Baumanis was one of just seven Rutgers employees selected for the award this year.
Read more about the award this year’s recipients and check out the full awards program.
Image: Mason Gross School of the Arts Dean Jason Geary, from left, Julia Baumanis, Zoë D’Amico, and Music Department Director Amanda Eubanks Winkler at the Committee to Advance Our Common Purposes Awards Ceremony.