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Women of Color Awards

At the eleventh annual Women of Color luncheon last month, three Penn women were cited for their personal and public achievements to enhance the community:

  • Dr. Loretta Sweet Jemmott, associate professor of nursing and director of the Center for Urban Health Research at Penn, who along with her husband, Princeton Psychology Professor John Jemmott, launched a four-year project on HIV prevention called Be Proud! Be Responsible! Strategies to Empower Youth to Reduce Their Risk for AIDS, being implemented as a na-tional model by the Division of Adolescent and School Health of the Centers for Disease Control;
  • Estella de Llanos, Penn Law '98, who has been an intern for the past two years with Community Legal Services, assisting the Hispanic elderly and disabled clients who were at risk of losing their SSI benefits; and
  • Lashanta Johnson, College '98, who as research assistant to Professor Lani Guinier has coordinated projects that promoted a national converstaion on race. She has also been a volunteer at the People's Emergency Center, where she facilitated parent-child programs.


Almanac, Vol. 44, No. 28, April 7, 1998

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