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Sheldon Steinhauser is Associate Professor of Sociology at Metropolitan State University of Denver, where he teaches classes in Current Social Issues and Gerontology, and runs an internship for students working at nonprofit agencies. For more than 60 years, Steinhauser has had a long record of achievement in the fields of human rights, education, age diversity and community wellbeing. His accomplishments include service as Director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and Director of the Allied Jewish Federation of Denver He holds the position, also, of Principal Gifts Officer in the University of Colorado Development Office, serving as Director of Development for the Skaggs School of Pharmacy at the Anschutz Medical Campus, raising funds for biomedical research, clinical practice and student support. As President of Sheldon Steinhauser & Associates, he has been a diversity consultant at Denver International Airport.A Denver resident since 1957, Steinhauser has consulted widely on ageism and on age discrimination in the workplace. He was presented with the Distinguished Pioneer in Aging Award of the Colorado Gerontological Society in December, 2009.
Professor Steinhauser has received numerous awards for his work in social justice and diversity, including an honorary Doctorate in Public Service from Regis University, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Humanitarian Award, and Civil Rights Achievement Awards from the Colorado Civil Rights Commission and the Anti-Defamation League. In 2008, the Latin American Research and Service Agency (LARASA, now CLLARO) presented the inaugural Sheldon Steinhauser Award at the annual Bernie Valdez Awards Luncheon, an event which continues to this day. Steinhauser was one of LARASA’s founding board members in the 1960s. He was praised editorially by The Denver Post in 1985 as “The Gentle Lion” for his long and distinguished career in combatting prejudice and discrimination.