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The Ken Haas Outstanding Alumni Award is given
each year to a graduate of the Department of Sociology & Criminal
Justice who has made major contributions to their profession or their
community. The award honors Professor Haas’s five-decade commitment to
education and the promotion of public service among our students. The
recipient may have earned either an undergraduate or graduate degree
from the program and either may be an individual of already considerable
accomplishment or a more recent graduate who shows great promise.
Susan
Miller, Internal Advisory Board member of the center and professor in
the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, gave a few heartfelt
words as Katrina was given her award:
Ken is retired but his
commitment to teaching and the promotion of public service is exemplary.
Katrina Manierre, Kat, graduated with Honors in 2013 with double majors
in Women & Gender Studies and Sociology, and earned a Domestic
Violence Prevention and Services Concentration. I was lucky enough to
have her in my undergraduate classes and to watch her professional
career from afar; she has devoted her career to public service and
educational programming for youth. First starting in Delaware at the
SAFE program of People’s Place, with an internship helping assist DV
victims in establishing financial and residential stability – the
shelter was more than an hour down the road from here, so Kat stayed
overnight in the shelter on a couch since she didn’t have a car and
busses didn’t travel that late at night. Classic Kat – her grit and
determination is well-remembered! Kat continued this work with DV and
sexual assault victims/survivors in upstate New York, helping clients
negotiate the civil and criminal justice systems and using
trauma-informed, client-centered, strengths-based advocacy. Her current
work now integrates a public health component, where she works with
sexual health educators and school districts in multiple counties in New York to provide comprehensive adolescent pregnancy prevention and other
sexual health education programming. Kat truly shines with her devotion
to victims/survivors, developing evidence-based sexual health education,
and violence prevention work. We are very proud that our department
played a role in shaping your commitment to public service, and we are
so proud of all of your accomplishments. Congratulations!
We at the center are so proud of Katrina and all of her accomplishments!
