Equity Champion Awards 2026

Equity Champion Awards

This Year’s Theme: Still We Rise! 

Spring 2026 

Call for Nominations! Deadline for nominations is Friday, May 1st, 2026 

The Equity Action Council cordially invites you to nominate an outstanding student, classified professional, faculty member, administrator, and program (department and or team) for the Equity Champion Award. The award recognizes and celebrates individuals making significant contributions to inclusion at De Anza College advancing the college’s vision of equity, social justice, and multicultural education. Awards will be given in the following individual categories:

• Classified Professional: ACE, CSEA, POA, and Teamsters

• Faculty member

• Student

• Administrator

• Team (Program/Committee/Group/Student Organization) 
• Elder

Submit your Online nomination form. 

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Please note: Members on the Equity Champion Awards Committee cannot nominate nor be nominated. To recognize as many De Anza College equity champions as possible, nominees should not have received an Equity Champion Award in the prior 3 years.

We recognize that there are multiple ways of demonstrating commitment to these values. The following are examples of ways nominee(s) exemplified their commitment to equity:

• Promoting a deeper understanding of equity by advancing best practices in their respective office and/or program

• Exhibits leadership qualities in their work through collaboration, courageous conversations, inclusion through an intersectional lens, and fosters accountability.

• Prioritizes student needs and advocates for systemic and institutional change to address them to ensure equitable opportunities.

• Serves as a creative and equity-minded decision maker in the shared governance process

• Fosters practices that help bridge the student equity gaps.

The individual or team being nominated should also embody the spirit and principles reflected in the above criteria.

About the Equity Action Council

The Equity Action Council is a shared governance body that helps facilitate campus wide development and support, engagement, implementation of programs, evaluations, policies and procedures that are in line with De Anza College's vision of equity, social justice, and multicultural education. The Council helps meet the goals and objectives of equity at De Anza and in particular, the Equity Office.

For More information: Adriana Garcia at 408-864-5636 or EquityOffice@fhda.edu