VICTORIA PRIZZIA HONORED BY DIVERSITY IN AQUATICS FOR WORK CREATING POOL: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF SEGREGATION

Habithèque founder Victoria Prizzia was honored for her work creating POOL: A Social History of Segregation with the peer-nominated Lee Pitts Award for Leadership and Organizational Excellence at the Diversity In Aquatics (DIA) annual conference in February 2022. DIA is a national organization dedicated to increasing water safety and aquatic activities in historically underrepresented and vulnerable communities.

According to DIA’s Director of Education and Research, Angela Beale-Tawfeeq, PhD., who nominated Victoria for this recognition, “As evident in the historical breadth and creativity of the POOL exhibition, Victoria’s work and collaborative partnerships with multiple organizations was cultivated with the utmost of respect and humility. She honors those who came before, while opening conversations to a broader public. Her work is very much in alignment with Diversity In Aquatics’ 2022 convention theme of  ‘Co-Creating Equitable Aquatic Spaces: From Talk to Action’, and our mission to provide educational programming and awareness, and to equip vulnerable populations with the skills needed to be safe and the opportunity to participate in aquatic physical activities and environments.”

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