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>> Come on in.
>> Budget meeting.
>> What's going on?
>> Ijade: Hi Sue. I'm Ijade, from the President's Office.
>> Sue Sbrizzi: Oh, my God!
[laughter]
>> Wow!
>> Ijade: Your colleagues here in the School of Women's Studies
and actually colleagues right
across the campus have earned your admiration and support,
and you are the 2010 Ronald Kent Medal winner;
so congratulations.
>> Sue Sbrizzi: Ronald Kent, wonderful.
Thank you so much.
It was fun to be ambushed, going into an important meeting.
I was blown away.
I was confused, at first.
I didn't know what was going on;
people in the room that I didn't know.
And then I saw my staff at the side and Meg Luxton,
who nominated me, and I kind of got an inkling,
and then I was just very touched and couldn't speak properly.
So-- and very happy, very proud of myself,
but also the community I come from.
>> Rose Crawford: She has such a strong sense of belief in York.
In conversations with her, I can tell the way she speaks
about her unit, the School of Women's Studies,
I know that she spends a great deal of time trying to come
up with ways, with initiatives to make things better
for her unit and her coworkers.
So, it always comes down to a sense of commitment.
>> Professor Marc Stein: So, one of the great things
that Sue started was a birthday club, where 20 or so faculty,
staff, librarians, others get together,
make cake for whoever's birthday has come up,
and just have an informal, casual hour.
Sue's the person who started that and has kept it going,
and it always requires reminders about whose turn it is
to bring the cake or make the cake.
But it's just one of those things that Sue initiated
that builds a sense of a shared purpose,
builds collegiality, builds community.
>> Sue Sbrizzi: For me, the nomination reaffirms what I do,
but also my colleagues, as other admin assistants and the faculty
of LA&PS, and across campus what admin assistants do.
It just makes the work feel very valued and appreciated,
and it's important to do.
It makes us all feel really good.
>> Jacqueline Siebert: Sue's really open.
She's a team player.
I worked with her on the best practices working group,
and we ran pretty independently for a while.
And Sue wasn't afraid to work hard, to see tasks
through to completion, completely reliable,
and you could count on her to step in at the last minute,
when someone dropped a deadline on us.
And we'd all panic, because this was work
that we had done outside of our regular duties
and responsibilities in our respective units.
And so when a deadline fell, it wasn't departmentally-related.
So, she just rose to the occasion and said, "Hey,
we have to get this done."
>> Professor Bettina Bradbury: York is her work life,
and what she shows, as an administrative assistant
to the Chair, is a kind of leadership, I think,
about taking citizenship in the University seriously,
that isn't perhaps quite so common in staff.
So, she's taken on a significant leadership role, I think,
among the admin assistants.
>> Sue Sbrizzi: Winning the Ronald Kent Medal means a great
deal to me, and it reaffirms what we do here at York,
and especially in Women's Studies and Sexuality Studies.
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