Saddiq Dzukogi Received Student Luminary Award of University of Nebraska-Lincoln

English major Taylor Daum and Ph.D. student Saddiq Dzukogi are among the 10 University of Nebraska-Lincoln students who received Student Luminary Awards to recognize their exceptional leadership and commitment to improving the campus and community.

The awards were announced during a reception at Howard L. Hawks Hall on April 1. The awards recognize students who create a positive campus environment, advocate for change, demonstrate a significant and active commitment to inclusion and model academic excellence inside and outside the classroom.

Each student was nominated by a faculty or staff member on campus and received $1,000.

Saddiq Dzukogi

Dzukogi, a doctoral student in English from Lincoln was honored as a Student Luminary for his personal commitments to creating a positive campus environment and actions toward making every person feel valued. While pursuing his own education and raising three young children, he mentors international students, serves as a compassionate undergraduate instructor, coaches high school poets and works with incarcerated community members.

“He has managed, in all of [his] struggles, to establish himself as a brilliant scholar, a hugely successful poet, a community-engaged teacher, a skillful, compassionate instructor to our undergraduates, and a mentor to local youth, other international students and incarcerated individuals,” Stacey Waite, nominator, said.

On his Facebook page, Dzukogi gave a statement after sharing the good news:

“Last Friday I was honored as one of ten University of Nebraska-Lincoln students with the Student Luminary Award. “Reviewers considered commitment to scholarship and leadership, as well as [my] role in fostering a positive campus environment”.

I want to use this opportunity to thank Stacey Waite, and my mentor and supervisor Kwame Dawes for writing such amazing letters in support of my nomination. It’s been such a year already— alhamdulilah.”

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Sai Sabouke is a writer living in New Bussa, Nigeria. He’s a dervish who sees Sufism, history and language as formidable tools for society regeneration. His writing has appeared in Praxis Magazine Online and Agbowo. Sabouke loves beans, coffee and dreams of roasting the entrails of vultures.