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Advocate of the Year Awards 2018

At the Student Lobby Conference, we will recognize several Student Advocates of the Year and one Higher Education Champion for their work to promote student priorities through activism or advocacy during the 2017-18 academic year. Use the form below to nominate recipients for this honor.

Nominations are due March 12.

Criteria

Student Advocate of the Year
To receive this award, nominees must: 1) be a UC student nominated by another UC student; 2) have worked for institutional or policy change on campus, systemwide, locally, statewide, or federally; 3) have forwarded a tenet of UCSA’s mission or campaign platform; and 4) have demonstrated leadership capacity. It is not required that nominees have participated in a formal organization or student government. Five awardees with be selected from the nomination pool.

Higher Education Champion
This award is available to individuals, organizations, or legislators. To receive this award, nominees must: 1) be nominated by a UC student; 2) have demonstrated commitment to success for student priorities; and 3) have forwarded a tenet of UCSA’s mission or campaign platform. One awardee will be selected from the nomination pool.

Nomination Form

As Executive Director, Salih leads our staff team and organizational strategy, keeps the UCSA office in operation, supports the Board and other student leaders, and fundraises to maximize the potential of our organization. Salih also oversees planning for UCSA’s annual statewide conferences.

 

Raised in Oakland, California, Salih Muhammad strives to embody the principles of service, sacrifice, and selflessness. For much of his life, he has been committed to living toward the liberation of Black people, at home and abroad.

 

In 2009, he continued the pursuit of knowledge at the University of California, Berkeley, where he excelled as a Black student and organizer on campus. His favorite quote is from Franz Fanon, who stated, “Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.”