Unique Young-Nutter
Diversity & Inclusion Coordinator
Unique Young-Nutter is currently serving as the Diversity & Inclusion Coordinator for the UK College of Pharmacy. Her tasks include assisting with designing and implementing short- and long-term diversity initiatives that increase support and retention of UKCOP students, employees, alumni, and faculty.
She received her Bachelor of Arts in Integrated Strategic Communication from the University of Kentucky, and during her undergraduate career, she served in multiple student organizations as a student leader. Unique previously served as an Unconscious Bias trainer for UK’s Office for Institutional Diversity and worked to bridge the gap between various student groups, faculty, and staff across campus. In December of 2019, Unique earned her Master of Science in Higher Education with a concentration in Student Affairs.
Before this role, she worked in the UK Office for Student Success as a Program Advisor for CARES (Center for Academic Resources and Enrichment Services). She plans to continue her passion for being a change agent and advocate for DE&I initiatives across campus!
We wish to remember and honor those who inhabited this Commonwealth before the arrival of the Europeans. Briefly occupying these lands were the Osage, Wyndott tribe, and Miami peoples. The Adena and Hopewell peoples, who are recognized by the naming of the time period in which they resided here, were here more permanently. Some of their mounds remain in the Lexington area, including at UK’s Adena Park.
In more recent years, the Cherokee occupied southeast Kentucky, the Yuchi southwest Kentucky, the Chickasaw extreme western Kentucky and the Shawnee central Kentucky including what is now the city of Lexington. The Shawnee left when colonization pushed through the Appalachian Mountains. Lower Shawnee Town ceremonial grounds are still visible in Greenup County.
We honor the first inhabitants who were here, respect their culture, and acknowledge the presence of their descendants who are here today in all walks of life including fellow pharmacists and healthcare professionals.