Suki Dardarian is an editor at the Star Tribune in Minnesota, where she oversees a news staff of 230 journalists. She has worked as a reporter and editor throughout the Northwest at The Seattle Times, the News Tribune, the Everett Herald, and the Bellingham Herald in newsrooms driven by a passion for public service journalism. Dardarian shared that she is blessed to have worked under great editors who nurtured and challenged her to dig deeper to serve their readers. She is proud of her education in Communication and Political Science, her training at The Daily, and the partnerships and friendships she built. Dardaruab fondly remembers her time in the Communications Building, recalling that professors would stroll the halls and hang out with students in The Daily office, and that the interplay of them offering advice and counsel has remained with her. According to her nominator, “Suki is the epitome of the type of person this award is intended to honor: a lifelong public servant who has spent over four decades committed to high-quality journalism and the public interest.” When asked about what this award means to her, Dardarian shared, “We don’t do this work for glory or praise; the work is reward enough. So it truly touches my heart to be honored by the UW, my colleagues, and my family in this way.”