Estelle M. Osborne Legacy Celebration
Since 1991, NYU Meyers has recognized the life of Estelle M. Osborne - the first Black nurse to earn a master’s degree and NYU's first Black nursing professor, with an annual celebration and award celebrating her legacy.
The annual Estelle Osborne Legacy Celebration honors her work as a pioneer, an advocate and educator and who worked tirelessly to end segregation in nursing. Estelle Osborne’s career was full of firsts, but it was the work she did in the spaces between those firsts, the everyday living and working, the ways she navigated the world every day, where her legacy was built.
The Estelle Osborne award honors a distinguished alumni or faculty member whose professional career embodies the true spirit of Osborne’s legacy.
Meet some of our previous Estelle Osborne Legacy Award honorees:
