Milford Resident Erika Leksan Receives Dominican's Outstanding Service Leadership Award

RIVER FOREST, IL (05/03/2011)(readMedia)-- Erika Leksan, a resident of Milford, OH, recently received the Outstanding Service Leadership Award from Dominican University for her extraordinary service on campus and in the larger community.

Leksan's ongoing involvement in University Ministry has led her to organize and lead Dominican's Van Outreach Program, ministering to Chicago's homeless. She visits the Broadview Detention Center weekly to pray and advocate for the immigrant community. She demonstrated outstanding community leadership by coordinating a team of students from Dominican and Concordia universities to present the Hunger Banquet, a hunger awareness event that involved over 200 participants from Dominican, Concordia and the larger River Forest and Oak Park communities. Upon graduation, Erika plans to serve with the Good Shepherd Volunteers or Dominican Volunteers.

Founded in 1901, Dominican University is a comprehensive, coeducational Catholic institution offering bachelor's degrees through the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and master's degrees through the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Brennan School of Business, the School of Education, and the Graduate School of Social Work. The university also offers a doctoral degree in library and information science. In the 2011 issue of America's Best Colleges, U.S. News & World Report ranked Dominican University in the top 20 of Midwest master's level universities. The magazine also ranked Dominican as one of three Great Schools at a Great Price in Illinois.