School of Nursing Honors Community Advocates

Observer Staff ReportUC Davis’ Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing recently honored two community advocates— OBSERVER Senior Staff Writer Genoa Barrow and Underground Books operator Georgia West—with Equity-Minded Community Awards for uplifting its cause.“We wanted to lift up the idea that we at the University of California Davis Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing and the university could not accomplish what we set out to do to improve the region’s well-being without the community,” said Professor Emeritus Dr. Jann Murray-Garcia, who presented the awards at the Guild Theater last week.Barrow, who recently celebrated her 25th anniversary with The OBSERVER was honored for outstanding health equity reporting.“The Sacramento Observer is part of the indispensable contribution and tradition ofBlack newspapers that go all the way back to Frederick Douglass’ North Star andIda B. Wells’ numerous anti-lynching articles published in Black newspapersacross the country at the turn of the 20th century,” Dr. Murray-Garcia said.& “Ms.Genoa Barrow helps us operationalize the notion that UC Davis is the people’s university, working on its behalf,” Dr. Murray-Garcia said. “It would be an insurmountable challenge to get the news out in particular to Sacramento’s Black community about how UC Davis is serving the community. Beyond what UC...