{"id":11919,"date":"2025-08-21T18:26:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T18:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=11919"},"modified":"2025-08-21T18:26:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T18:26:59","slug":"augsburg-university-announces-2025-alumni-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2025\/08\/21\/augsburg-university-announces-2025-alumni-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg University Announces 2025 Alumni Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/08\/AlumniAwardsAndTent_41.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11920 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/08\/AlumniAwardsAndTent_41-300x264.jpg\" alt=\"A bouquet of red and white flowers\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/08\/AlumniAwardsAndTent_41-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/08\/AlumniAwardsAndTent_41-1024x902.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/08\/AlumniAwardsAndTent_41-768x676.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/08\/AlumniAwardsAndTent_41-1536x1353.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/08\/AlumniAwardsAndTent_41.jpg 1758w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Augsburg University is proud to announce the winners of the 2025 Distinguished Alumni Award, First Decade Award, and Spirit of Augsburg Award. These outstanding alumni will be recognized at a public ceremony and reception on October 3 as part of Augsburg\u2019s 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/homecoming\/\"><span class=\"s2\">homecoming and reunion weekend<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Distinguished Alumni Award<\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/homecoming\/alumni-award-recipients\/recipients-of-the-distinguished-alumni-award-1958-2014\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Distinguished Alumni Award<\/span><\/a> recognizes significant achievement in vocation, for outstanding contribution to church and community, and for a life that exemplifies the ideals and mission of Augsburg University. The 2025 honorees are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Susan Allen \u201992, attorney and former Minnesota state legislator (Las Vegas, NV)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Michele Boyer \u201989, housing supervisor, The Aliveness Project; director of supportive housing, Clare Housing (Minneapolis, MN)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Deacon Ross R. Murray, \u201900, \u201909 MBA, vice president, GLAAD Media Institute; founder and director, The Naming Project (St. Paul, MN)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">First Decade Award<\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/homecoming\/alumni-award-recipients\/the-first-decade-award\/\"><span class=\"s2\">First Decade Award<\/span><\/a> is presented to Augsburg graduates of the past 10 years who have made significant progress in their professional achievements and contributions to the community, and in so doing exemplify the mission of the university. The 2025 honorees are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Cristian Baca Perez \u201916, DJ, producer, and event promoter (Minneapolis, MN)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Muna Mohamed \u201916, founder and CEO, Kalsoni (Minneapolis, MN)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Spirit of Augsburg Award<\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/homecoming\/alumni-award-recipients\/the-spirit-of-augsburg-award\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Spirit of Augsburg Award<\/span><\/a> honors alumni and friends of the university who have given exceptional service that contributes substantially to the well-being of Augsburg by furthering its purposes and programs. The 2024 honorees are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mark S. Johnson \u201975, PhD, retired city planner, former president of Sonju Motors, volunteer, and philanthropist (Naples, FL)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/homecoming\/alumni-award-recipients\/\">Learn more about the 2025 alumni award winners.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Augsburg University is proud to announce the winners of the 2025 Distinguished Alumni Award, First Decade Award, and Spirit of Augsburg Award. These outstanding alumni will be recognized at a public ceremony and reception on October 3 as part of Augsburg\u2019s 2025 homecoming and reunion weekend.\u00a0 Distinguished Alumni Award The Distinguished Alumni Award recognizes significant &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":11920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3228],"tags":[128,4023,1292],"class_list":["post-11919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-kudos","tag-alumni-2","tag-alumni-awards","tag-homecoming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11921,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11919\/revisions\/11921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}