President David Lassner and Provost Michael Bruno will honor the 2020, 2021 and 2022 awardees at UH Mānoa’s first in-person awards ceremony since 2019.
Victoria Lee
Victoria Lee grew up in a Cantonese-speaking family in Hawaiʻi. Her first two years in public school were spent in the English Language Learner program, a curriculum which accommodates students who come from non-English speaking homes. Lee’s experience as a child ignited a passion to work in the English as a second language field, a goal that shaped her decision to major in Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
As an undergraduate, Lee soon learned students could shave off a semester of graduate school through the Bachelor’s and Master’s (BAM) degree pathway. BAM enables students to start on their master’s during their senior year.