DASAPIAN Award
The Davidson Asian South Asian Pacific Islander Alumni Network Award recognizes students for their contributions to Asian South Asian Pacific Islander (ASAPI) communities. The awardees demonstrated a combination of academic, activist, and/or advocacy services to the community.
Established in 2023 by the Davidson Asian South Asian and Pacific Islander Alumni Network (DASAPIAN), this award is presented annually at convocation and recognizes students for their contributions to the Asian, South Asian, and Pacific Islander (ASAPI) communities. Selected recipients have demonstrated a combination of academic, activist, and/or advocacy services to the community.
Previous DASAPIAN Award Recipients
- 2025
Nguyen Mau Duc Binh '27
Sahana Athreya '25 - 2024
Kavi Gandhi '25
Ann Nishida '24
Jill Paquette '24
Catherine Tadlock '24
Davidson Asian South Asian Pacific Islander Alumni Network Convocation Award Fund
In fall of 2023, DASAPIAN established the Davidson Asian South Asian Pacific Islander Alumni Network Convocation Award Fund. This fund will provide a stipend to support the summer experiences of the award recipients. While this is a step forward in support of the ASAPI community at Davidson, the more support we raise for the fund, the more we can provide to students. Thanks to the pledges of the following ASAPI alums, this fund will be endowed and this stipend will be awarded in perpetuity.
- Beadsie Woo ’86
- Prem Manjooran ’92
- Gagan Gupta ’07
- Paige Logan ’14
- Yeeva Cheng ’15
- Ashley Ip ’22
- Audrey Meigs ’23
- Rob Lim ‘91
- Deepak Vijayathilikan ‘94
- Michelle Lim Warner ‘02
- Minne Iwamoto ‘91
- Martha Iwamoto ‘91
- Lillian Woo P ‘86
- Anita Ng P’87, P’90
- Cheryl Ng O’Malley ‘87
- Donald O’Malley ‘86
- Peter Ng ‘90
- Kyong Lee ‘89
- Gabriel Ng ‘21
- Olivia Ng ‘ 21
- Ester (Kim) ’84 & Sea Lee
- Lulu Rhagavan ‘97
If you would like to support to the DASAPIAN Convocation Award you can make a gift by selecting “Other” as your designation and type in “DASAPIAN Endowed”.