Pictured (left to right): Brighde Mullins, Brian Ingram, Shandela Contreras, Jaden Stovall, Cat Broderick, Bea Sanford Russell, Brittany Gauntt, Hilary Gauntt, Casey Gauntt, Jonathan Wong-Hayden, Dox Raskin, Mark Irwin, Elda María Román, and Camryn Brewer. (Photo/Steve Cohn)

Six seniors recognized with 2025 JIMMY Awards

May 6, 2025

The Department of English is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 Jimmy Gauntt Memorial Award:

Camryn Brewer
Cat Broderick
Shandela Contreras
Dox Raskin
Jaden Stovall
Jonathan Wong-Hayden

The recipients were recognized at a dinner with the Gauntt family and English faculty at Redbird in Downtown LA.

The Jimmy Awards recognize seniors majoring in English, creative writing, and narrative studies. The awards honor Jimmy Gauntt, a poet, musician and playwright, who graduated from USC Dornsife in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in English. His life was tragically cut short in 2008.

The awards created in his honor in 2009 by his mentor and friend David Román, professor of English and American studies and ethnicity, recognize six outstanding seniors in the English department who have demonstrated a commitment to the arts.

Nominations are collected from all English department faculty. Thank you to Elda María Román, Brian Ingram, and Bea Sanford Russell, who served on the awards committee this year.