2008 Human Service Tribute Honoree
Name: Loida C. Velázquez
Job Title: Program Director (retired)
Company Name: University of Tennessee
Activities: Board Member United Way of Knoxville; Knoxville Museum of Art Trustee; Board Member Regional American Red Cross Knoxville Area Chapter; Founding Board Member of The Race Relations Center of East Tennessee; Board Member First Tennessee Bank Community Council; Member Nine Counties One Vision Diversity and Human Relations Committee; HOLA: Hora Latina President (2005-2006); Chair Education Committee 2008; Faculty Advisor Lambda Theta Alpha Sorority, UT Chapter.
Affiliations and Honors: Selected Honorary Chair for the YWCA 2007 Race against Racism,; Leadership Knoxville 2004 graduate; Received Service Award after completing three year as the President of the HEP and CAMP Association 1998-2001; Outstanding Adult Education Student 1994; Received the 1994 National Rural Education Dissertation Award.
Loida C. Velázquez, Ed.D.
Loida C. Velázquez professional life has been dedicated to the service of marginalized populations. It started in her native Puerto Rico with her participation in the establishment of one of the first Head Start programs in the island and culminated at the University of Tennessee as the Principal Investigator and Project Director of a federally-funded program serving migrant and seasonal farmworkers in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. In between, there were stints as a counselor and Vocational Manager at the Knoxville Job Corp Center and as the East Tennessee Coordinator for the state agency providing advocacy to people with disabilities. A member of the first wave of Latinos settling in the South, she naturally assumed the role of leader and role model to the new immigrants populating the region. A graduate of Leadership Knoxville Class of 2004, she in turn prepared leaders within the Latino community as coordinator for the UT Institute for Public Service Leadership Plenty classes in 2006 and 2007. But the role that she enjoys best is that of grandmother because it gives her the opportunity to connect her 5 grandchildren with her Latino culture.
Name: Loida C. Velázquez
Job Title: Program Director (retired)
Company Name: University of Tennessee
Activities: Board Member United Way of Knoxville; Knoxville Museum of Art Trustee; Board Member Regional American Red Cross Knoxville Area Chapter; Founding Board Member of The Race Relations Center of East Tennessee; Board Member First Tennessee Bank Community Council; Member Nine Counties One Vision Diversity and Human Relations Committee; HOLA: Hora Latina President (2005-2006); Chair Education Committee 2008; Faculty Advisor Lambda Theta Alpha Sorority, UT Chapter.
Affiliations and Honors: Selected Honorary Chair for the YWCA 2007 Race against Racism,; Leadership Knoxville 2004 graduate; Received Service Award after completing three year as the President of the HEP and CAMP Association 1998-2001; Outstanding Adult Education Student 1994; Received the 1994 National Rural Education Dissertation Award.
Loida C. Velázquez, Ed.D.
Loida C. Velázquez professional life has been dedicated to the service of marginalized populations. It started in her native Puerto Rico with her participation in the establishment of one of the first Head Start programs in the island and culminated at the University of Tennessee as the Principal Investigator and Project Director of a federally-funded program serving migrant and seasonal farmworkers in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. In between, there were stints as a counselor and Vocational Manager at the Knoxville Job Corp Center and as the East Tennessee Coordinator for the state agency providing advocacy to people with disabilities. A member of the first wave of Latinos settling in the South, she naturally assumed the role of leader and role model to the new immigrants populating the region. A graduate of Leadership Knoxville Class of 2004, she in turn prepared leaders within the Latino community as coordinator for the UT Institute for Public Service Leadership Plenty classes in 2006 and 2007. But the role that she enjoys best is that of grandmother because it gives her the opportunity to connect her 5 grandchildren with her Latino culture.
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