Sherri Walsh Wins Nellie Award

Congratulations to UIC instructor Sherri Walsh for receiving the Nellie Award! This award honours the spirit of Nellie McClung's life's work by recognizing 12 women who have contributed to social justice, the arts and promoted democracy. The awards were presented in January 2016 celebrating 100 years of Manitoba's women's right to vote.

Sherri is an alumni of UWinnipeg (Collegiate ’78, BA ’81 French) and has returned to her alma mater to teach Urban and Inner-City Studies’ Poverty and the Law course. She also serves on the UWinnipeg Foundation Board as the Director. Walsh is renowned for her extensive community work; giving a voice to our most vulnerable in our society and Walsh speaks to the transformative power of education.  Describing her students at UWinnipeg in the Urban and Inner-City Studies program she has expressed that “in all the many years I taught at the Law school, I never felt so uplifted as I do at the end of one of these classes."

"Sherri Walsh and her co-instructors, Byron Williams and Joelle Pastora-Sala, are simply outstanding in the classroom," said Department Chair, Jim Silver. "Our Students have a rich and rewarding experience when taking a course from Sherri and Byron and Joelle. We are lucky to have three such outstanding people teaching in the Department of Urban and Inner-City Studies."