UNLV Peer Advisor Alex Sawin is named “Student Veteran of the Year” and Student Veterans of America’s National Conference

Alex Sawin in her Air Force uniform standing beside her husband and holding her young daughterAlex Sawin, a former Peer Advisor at University of Nevada Las Vegas within our PAVE program, was recently named “Student Veteran of the Year” by Student Veterans of America (SVA) at its annual National Conference in Orlando, FL on Saturday, January 5, 2019.

Sawin was profiled in a Military Times article, excerpts from which are below:

“She is everything we look for in our leaders and truly deserves this award.”–Jared Lyon, SVA President and CEO

“I’m just the face of the organization. I didn’t do everything. Everything that we did was done through group effort.”–Alex Sawin

From Military Times
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