DENVER – Andrea Herrera, professor and director of the Women’s and Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, is the 2014-15 recipient of the Chase Faculty Community Service Award. Each year, a full-time CU faculty member who provides exceptional service to the community receives a $10,000 endowment, funded by a grant from Chase. An advisory council recommends an award-winner to CU President Bruce D. Benson, who bestows the honor. Herrera will be recognized by the CU Board of Regents during a regular meeting later this year. Herrera arrived at the university in 1999 to direct a minor in ethnic studies. With colleagues in ethnic studies and women’s studies, she developed a women’s and ethnic studies major, one of the only programs of its kind in the U.S., which now offers four certificates. Her academic work includes art, theory, creative writing, literature and literary criticism. Through her creativity – from books to poems, a novel and a play set to be presented as a staged reading this summer at Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center in Denver – she shines light on issues of social justice and how diversity and inequity shape lives. “Dr. Herrera’s service in […]