Public Affairs graduate students pull off triple win

<p>An unprecedented winning trio of graduate students at ASU’s School of Public Affairs collected the first-ever multiple awards from the Phoenix Women’s Commission for the Mary Ann Huerta Jenkins Fellowship.</p><separator></separator><p>The fellowship recognizes the strength of women in public service as a memorial to Jenkins, a longtime assistant to the Phoenix city manager remembered for her communitywide support of women’s issues and the underpriveleged.</p><separator></separator><p>Graduate students Ada Davis and Carolyn Rerucha, from the master’s degree in public policy program, join Cheyenne Walsh, a master’s degree in public administration candidate, in setting the fellowship’s record of three awards totaling $7,500.</p><separator></separator><p>Typically, the $2,500 annual award goes to one woman in the school’s graduate program who best reflects Jenkins’ enthusiastic civic involvement.</p><separator></separator><p>All three of this year’s winners are Phoenix residents and were honored Jan. 29.</p><separator></separator><p>The record-setting awards also set a new fundraising goal for the commission to aspire toward next year, says chairman Terri Jackson, who credited the triple win to a successful fundraising campaign.</p><separator></separator><p>The recipients’ applications had winning combinations of government work experience and community volunteer efforts, selection committee member Laura French says.</p><separator></separator><p>The fellowship was developed in 2003 as a partnership between Phoenix and the School of Public Affairs, to honor the memory of Jenkins’ stellar career.</p><separator></separator><p>Wendy Paulson, <a href="mailto:wendy.paulson@asu.edu">wendy.paulson@asu.edu</a><br />(602) 496-1035<br />with ASU’s Office of the Dean</p>