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Six seniors recognized with 2025 JIMMY Awards<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n \n May 6, 2025<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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The Department of English is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 Jimmy Gauntt Memorial Award:<\/p>\n

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  • Camryn Brewer<\/li>\n
  • Cat Broderick<\/li>\n
  • Shandela Contreras<\/li>\n
  • Dox Raskin<\/li>\n
  • Jaden Stovall<\/li>\n
  • Jonathan Wong-Hayden<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    The recipients were recognized at a dinner with the Gauntt family and English faculty at Redbird in Downtown LA.<\/p>\n

    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\u2019s degree in English. His life was tragically cut short in 2008.<\/p>\n

    The\u00a0awards\u00a0created in his honor in 2009 by his mentor and friend David Rom\u00e1n, professor of English and\u00a0American studies and ethnicity, recognize six outstanding seniors in the English department who have demonstrated a commitment to the arts.<\/p>\n

    Nominations are collected from all English department faculty. Thank you to Elda Mar\u00eda Rom\u00e1n, Brian Ingram, and Bea Sanford Russell, who served on the awards committee this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":905,"featured_media":7258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards-and-honors","category-undergraduate"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSix seniors recognized with 2025 JIMMY Awards<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/engl\/2025\/05\/06\/six-seniors-recognized-with-2025-jimmy-awards\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Six seniors recognized with 2025 JIMMY Awards - 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