PhD student Dulmini Jayawardana named as a 2025 Spirit of Community Geography Award winner by the American Association of Geographers Community Geographies Collaborative (CGC)

This award is “given annually to a graduate student CGC member or group of members who have made exemplary contributions to advance research projects rooted in the spirit of Community Geography.” Dulmini’s award recognizes her highly successful PhotoVoice project in collaboration with community members in the Lindsay Heights neighborhood, focused on civic environmental stewardship. Dulmini also recently received an “Agent of Change” Student Excellence Award at UWM.

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.