SUU Announces the 2026 Influencer Award Honorees
Published: September 03, 2026 |
Author: SUU |
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As campus prepares to welcome students back this fall semester, Southern Utah University’s Division of Student Affairs and the Career and Professional Development Center have proudly distributed the 2026 Influencer Awards. This annual tradition recognizes outstanding faculty and staff, highlighting individuals at SUU who have done a remarkable job supporting, inspiring, and guiding students through their academic journeys.
“These T-Birds exemplify the spirit and mission of Southern Utah University, and influence is one of the reasons our students—and our university—thrive,” said Assistant Vice President of Career Success, Dr. Kristy Morgan.
Each year, graduating T-Birds are asked, “Which faculty or staff members had the greatest positive impact on your SUU experience?” This year’s honorees were chosen as those who made a lasting difference in the lives of students.
“Thank you for your unwavering dedication to our students and your commitment to their success,” said Dr. Morgan. “The knowledge you share, the support you provide, and the example you set have helped shape futures, inspire confidence, and create opportunities that extend far beyond the classroom.”
The nominees for the 2026 Influencer Award are listed below. These are committed individuals whose care and service have allowed SUU to be a place where T-Birds can soar.
Thanks are also given to the students who took the time to nominate the faculty and staff who made a difference in their lives, allowing the University to celebrate these incredible professionals.
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Last Names Beginning with A
Katelynd Adams
Seth Aiono
Sarah Allen
Stephen Allen
Josh Anderson
Shaun Anderson
Mir Angkur
Jo Ann Bartley
Carol Ann Modesitt
Seth Armstrong
Jolee Arnold
Lisa Arter
Mohamed Askar
Lexie Asplundh
Last Names Beginning with B
Katie Baca
Braden Bagley
Mandi Bagley
Jared Baker
Nathan Barker
Brian Barnes
Steve Barney
Susie Barney
Matt Barton
Shubhashrita Basu
Sarah Bates
Sherri Batt
Scott Bauman
Diane Bealer
Yanina Becco
Jenna Behm
John Belk
Douglas Bennett
Mary Weaver Bennett
Mindy Benson
Blair Bentley
David Berri
Carlos Bertoglio
Cynthia Bezard
Kyle Bishop
Jacob Bishop
Aubree Blake
Shelly Blake
Michael Blake
Becky Bloom
Stephen Blumenthal
Alex Boehmer
Christian Bohnenstengel
Brian Boland
Rachel Bolus
Robin Boneck
Christine Bonnett
Isabella Borisova
Curt Bostick
Helen Boswell
Bryan Bradford
Elise Bradshaw
Sylvia Bradshaw
Keith Bradshaw
Tracey Bradshaw
Jeb Branin
Pam Branin
Cody Bremner
Chandler Bridges
Andrew Briggs
Kristin Briggs
Rachel Brindley
Clint Broadbent
Sarah Brock
Kathleen Broeder
Todd Brown
Lydia Brown
Janelle Brown
Josh Brown
Rick Brown
Richard Bugg
Suzette Bulloch
Juliann Burgess
Trekker Burt
Jen Burt
Jason Burton
Robert Butler
Lyndy Butler
Last Names Beginning with C
Tina Calamity
Andrea Callaway
Heather Callison
Patrick Calvo
Suzie Campbell
Chelsea Campbell
Jamie Campbell
Leonard Carapezza
Ron Cardon
Luke Carlson
Roger Carter
Art Challis
Kit Chatham
Prosenjit Chatterjee
Alexander Chaudhry
David Christensen
Tyler Christensen
Faith Christensen
Shawn Christiansen
Patrick Clarke
Lorien Colbert
Julia Combs
Hayden Coombs
Rhett Cooper
Marcos Corchado-Sonera
Grant Corser
Mason Cottam
Jeff Cowley
Cory Cox
Richard Cozzens
Julia Craft
Tana Crookston
Kathryn Crowe
Champaine Curtis
Last Names Beginning with D
Ben Dalton
Annie Damm
Diane Darling
Hannah Davis
Robert Davis
William Davis
Alyssa Davis
Hayley Davis
Samuel Davis
Trevor Davis
Emily Dean
Jacob Dean
Amanda DeBlauw
Justin DeBlauw
Elliani Decker
Renee Delcambre
Amie Despain
Nicole Dib
Aimee DiBrienza
Andrea Donovan
Marie Douglas
Chris Dunning
Last Names Beginning with E
Matthew Eddy
Joni Edgel
Troy Edler
Tyson Edwards
Gretchen Ellefson
Amy Ellington
Katie Englert
Steve Engst
Nate Esplin
Parker Evans
Rosalyn Eves
Daniel Eves
Jessi Excell-Allen
Last Names Beginning with F
Marc Farrior
Kalen Fernandez
DeLane Fitzgerald
Michele Fogg
John Fonseca
Melinda Ford
Rachel Fraser
Lindsay Fullerton
Brian Fullerton
Merrill Funk
Melissa Funk
Last Names Beginning with G
Kay Gale
Chelsea Gambles
Heather Garcia
Paige Gardiner
Rheana Gardner
Lauri Garfield
Chad Gasser
Roger Gold
Kelly Goonan
Fredric Govedich
Bryan Graden
Kirsten Graham
David Grant
Laureen Graves
Christopher Graves
Colby Green
Sara Greener
Parker Grimes
Michelle Grimes
Miranda Gubler
Shobha Gurung
Last Names Beginning with H
Kenneth Hall
Jamie Hamblin
Paul Hamblin
Jianlong Han
Donna Handley
Parker Hannifin
Courtland Hansen
Scott Hansen
Jeffrey Hanson
Arianna Harrington
Kurt Harris
Ammon Harris
Bruce Haslem
Daniel Hatch
David Hatch
Janae Hawk
Ron Hayes
Roderick He
Derek Hein
Sean Heiner
Thomas Herb
Susanna Herrmann
Kurt Higbee
Elizabeth Hill
Caleb Hiller
Hayley Hinckley
Maren Hirschi
Megan Hitchcock
Janet Hodnett
Anthony Hoff
Whitney Hoff
Amie Hokanson
Kolton Holbrook
Jonathan Holiman
Bruce Howard
Britannia Howe
Gary Howe
Howard Hu
Linda Hudson
Samantha Huhtala
Mike Humes
Regan Hunsaker
Ryan Hunt
Jeffery Hunt
Susan Hunter
Stacey Hurst
Paul Husselbee
Last Names Beginning with I
Landry Igiraneza
Douglas Ipson
Nozomi Irei
Tyrel Ivie
Last Names Beginning with J
Jackie Jackson
Kevan Jacobson
Jesse James
Monica Jensen
Xiaoben Jiang
Natalie Johansen
Bruce Johnson
Corrine Johnson
Katerra Johnson
Jake Johnson
Lawrence Johnson
Skip Jones
Heather Jones
Kaitlyn Jones
Brett Jordan
Xinglong Ju
Abbey Judd
Joel Judd
Last Names Beginning with K
Jason Kaiser
Jon Karpel
Amy Kemp
Heather Kennedy
Andrew Kent-Marvick
Bill Kershisnik
Shalini Kesar
Hyejin Kim
Caitlin Kime
Benjamin Kirkby
Samantha Kirkley
Prent Klag
Joshua Klein
Scott Knowles
Ted Kocher
Bryan Koenig
Crystal Koenig
Kevin Koontz
Nikki Koontz
Brianne Kramer
Michael Kroff
Donna Kroff
Reina Kropf
Randi Krueger
Kaity Kuhn
Last Names Beginning with L
Kevan LaFrance
Adam Lambert
Shaylee Lamoreaux
Brock Landrum
Kristi Larrison
Abigail Larson
Bethany Larson
Sarah Lavin
Donna Law
Marcus Lawrence
Selwyn Layton
Elise Leahy
Jon Lee
Farah LeFevre
Craig Lewis
Kipp Lewis
Drew Liedtke
Steven Lindquist
Donna Lister
Sijun Liu
Gang Liu
Tevita Lo'amanu
Sarah Loertscher
Talaya Logan
Trecia Loveland
Kelli Lovell
Tammy Lovell
Brian Ludlow
Ann Lundberg
David Lunt
Celesta Lyman
Last Names Beginning with M
Britt Mace
Paul Maggio
Masoud Malekzadeh
Jill Mallek
Jacob Manning
Aspen Manning
Jeremy Martin
Junice Acosta Martinez
Kimberly Martinez
Tracy Mason
Quinn Mathews
Jamie Mathews
Jayson Matlock
Jackson Matthews
David Maxwell
Kelli May
Madison McBride
Robb McCollum
Kimberly McCollum
Sally McDonald
Matt Mckenzie
John Meisner
Whitney Mendoza
Libby Meredith
Susan Merrill
Mark Miller
Mark Milne
Andrew Misseldine
Jim Mock
Dillon Monroe
Chris Monson
Melissa Montiano
Libby Moreno
Magnum Morgan
Eric Morrow
Michael Mower
Jennifer Mraz-Craig
Erich Mueller
Scott Munro
Doug Murdoch
Sean T Murphy
Katie Murray
Nate Mutter
Last Names Beginning with N
Elijah Neilson
Brionne Neilson
SheriDawn Neilson
Althea Neustaedter
Matthew Newsom
Hannah Nickerson
Last Names Beginning with O
Matt Ogburn
Heather Ogden
Tony Oliver
Jenna Olson
Michelle Orihel
Jeff Orton
Jamie Orton
Cassandra Ostrowsky
Michael Ostrowsky
E. Jay Overson
Nancy Dobbs Owen
Last Names Beginning with P
Cameron Pace
Shankar Parajulee
Sangjun Park
Rachel Parker
Sebastián Partida
Robert Paul
Ryan Paul
Chris Pearson
Tony Pellegrini
Levi Pendleton
Alisa Petersen
Todd Petersen
Kris Phillips
Elizabeth Pierce
Paul Pillitteri
Kenten Pope
Iliana Portaro
Nathan Porter
Greg Powell
Jessica Pullan
Julie Pynn
Last Names Beginning with Q
Shao Qiu
Lisa Quoresimo
Last Names Beginning with R
Brandon Ragan
Hannah Rahn
Christopher Ralphs
Lori Ransom
Danielle Rante
Bree Rayburn
Colleen Reed
Crystal Reed
Max Reed
Cara Reese
Michael Reola
Torrie Rice
Doug Richards
Matthew Roberts
Vikki Robertson
Elliott Robertson
Debbie Robinson
Harley Roe
Michael Rogers
Keri Romine
Travis Rosenberg
Amanda Roundy
Ravi Roy
Shelly Roy
Kathy Ruiz
David Ryan
Last Names Beginning with S
Glen Sagers
Wendy Sanders
Matt Schmidt
Paul Schneider
Nate Scholes
Breanna Schurtz
Richard Scoresby
Alexander Seils
Tevita Sekeni
Jim Shakespear
Peter Sham
Ed Shardlow
Bina Sharma
Chip Sharpe
Danielle Lydia Sheather
Grant Shimer
Ryan Shoemaker
Ali Siahpush
Ryan Siemers
Taelor Sievers
Donna De Silva
Travis Simkins
Nathan Slaughter
Landon Smith
Sunny Smith
Anne Smith
Jason Smith
Jon Smith
Paul Snyder
Thomas Sorenson
Benjamin Sowards
Sadie Spencer
Shon Spevak
Jamie Spinney
Alex Staheli
Michael Stathis
Joshua Stavros
Mackay Steffensen
Kevin Stein
Ryan Steineckert
Kelly Stephens
Chandler Stewart
Tyler Stillman
Jason Stinnett
Nathan Stockle
Zack Strand
Brandon Street
Dalley Strong
Charla Strosser
Garrett Strosser
Chris Stucker
Doug Stump
Jeanne Subjack
Xun Sun
Daniel Swanson
Brian Swanson
Madalyn Swanson
Hala Swearingen
Last Names Beginning with T
Alexis Taeatafa
Noa Taeatafa
Nathaniel (Nano) Taggart
Bernard Tawiah
Cory Taylor
Julie Taylor
Alexis Taylor
John Taylor
Jenny Taylor
McKay Tebbs
Suzanne Tegland
Aaron Templin
Patrick Terrones
Raj Thiruvengadathan
Niki Tippets
Jared Tippets
Kevin Tipton
Brian Torkelson
David Torres
David Tufte
Mary Jo Tufte
Marie Tuite
Amie Tukuafu
Jeff Tukuafu
Kaycee Turek
Emma Turner
Jessica Tvordi
Corey Twitchell
Last Names Beginning with V
Joel Vallett
Tanner Vario
Mo Venida
Elaine Vickers
Chris Vrenna
Last Names Beginning with W
Stephen Wagner
Jeremy Waite
Jason Walker
Gary Wallace
Nichole Wangsgard
Kurt Wankier
Sierra Warner
Jennifer Weaver
Kim Weaver
Casey Webb
Clara Webster
Matthew Weeg
Andreas Weingartner
Spencer Wells
Samuel Wells
Nathan Werner
Jill Whitaker
Natasha White
Lynn White
Brandon Wiggins
Jared Wilcken
Curtis Willardson
Amelia Willden
Don Don Williams
Lauren Williams
Joe Willis
Jaylee Willis
Dean Winward
Emily Wixom
Samuel Wolf
Carisa Wood
Derek Wood
Lee Wood
Sandi Wood
Don Wood
Dallin Woodward
Rachel Woodward
Sara Workman
Russell Wrankle
Loni Wright
Jamie Wysong
Last Names Beginning with Y
Shane Yardley
Last Names Beginning with Z
Victoria Zhang
Sandy Zhang
Lijie Zhou
Ashleigh Zimmerman
Matt Zufelt
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