11/09/2022 12:48:53 PMWeekends you might find Jacqueline “Jacquie” Hawkins taking a break from grading or grant writing to stroll through a local farmer’s market. She’s a foodie, but she knows vegetables don’t have to be Instagram-ready to be good. Instead, she thinks about the labor that went into growing them. That mindset is a throwback to her upbringing in a small Scottish fishing village where everyone was expected to contribute. Everyone’s efforts were valued, too. “Equity was ingrained into us,” she said. “You didn’t denigrate others who were less capable. The expectation was you did your best.” Those lessons inform her professional life as an associate professor of special populations and an Ed.D. program director at the University of Houston College of Education. Hawkins’ leadership in transforming the College’s Ed.D. program to become more rigorous and relevant recently earned her national recognition from the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate. She received the organization’s 2022 David G. Imig Distinguished Service Award, honoring her teaching, advising and research over a 35-year career at UH.