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\"Allison<\/a>Alison Geist<\/strong>, director of the Mary Jane Underwood Stryker Center for Civic Engagement, received the 2013 Spirit of Health Equity Award from Kalamazoo County Health and Community Services<\/a>. The award recognizes her “ongoing commitment and dedication to health equity in the Kalamazoo community.” In addition to her work with the CCE (formerly the Mary Jane Underwood Stryker Institute for Service-Learning), Geist teaches a course in public health at K and co-administers the College\u2032s Community and Global Health concentration. She received the award at the First Annual Summit on Health Equity in Kalamazoo. Congrats, Alison!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alison Geist, director of the Mary Jane Underwood Stryker Center for Civic Engagement, received the 2013 Spirit of Health Equity Award from Kalamazoo County Health and Community Services. The award recognizes her “ongoing commitment and dedication to health equity in the Kalamazoo community.” In addition to her work with the CCE (formerly the Mary Jane […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[30,117,39,13],"post_formats":[],"class_list":["post-3080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff","tag-awards","tag-civic-engagement","tag-faculty","tag-service-learning"],"yoast_head":"\r\nK Civic Engagement Director Honored With Health Award - News and Events<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Alison Geist, director of the Mary Jane Underwood Stryker Center for Civic Engagement, received the 2013 Spirit of Health Equity Award from Kalamazoo\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/k-civic-engagement-director-honored-with-health-award\/\" class=\"pl-twiiter-share social-share-default pl-social-share\" target=\"_blank\"><i class=\"fab fa-twitter\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a><a data-share=\"linkedin\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?url=https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/k-civic-engagement-director-honored-with-health-award\/\" class=\"pl-linkedin-share social-share-default pl-social-share\" target=\"_blank\"><i class=\"fab fa-linkedin-in\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/a>","wordExcerpt_info":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/07\/lison-Geist.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3234 size-full\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/07\/lison-Geist.jpg\" alt=\"Allison Geist\" width=\"155\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a>Alison Geist<\/strong>, director of the Mary Jane Underwood Stryker Center for Civic Engagement, received the 2013 Spirit of Health Equity Award from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kalcounty.com\/hcs\/\">Kalamazoo County Health and Community Services<\/a>. The award recognizes her “ongoing commitment and dedication to health equity in the Kalamazoo community.” In addition to her work with the CCE (formerly the Mary Jane Underwood Stryker Institute for Service-Learning), Geist teaches a course in public health at K and co-administers the College\u2032s Community and Global Health concentration. She received the award at the First Annual Summit on Health Equity in Kalamazoo. 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