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Ripple of Hope Award Laureates

2024

Susan Clark Livingston

Partner, Brown Brothers Harriman
Lin-Manuel Miranda

Songwriter, Actor, Director, and Producer
Antonio Neri

President and Chief Executive Officer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
John W. Rogers, Jr.

Founder, Chairman, Co-Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Investment Officer, Ariel Investments
Tom Wilson

Chair, President, and Chief Executive Officer, The Allstate Corporation

2023

The Edwin Barbey Charitable Trust

Donor-Advised Fund of the Arizona Community Foundation
Fran Drescher

SAG-AFTRA President, Actress, and Author

The January 6 Select Committee

Zoe Lofgren

Congresswoman (18th District of California)
Stephanie Murphy

Former Congresswoman (7th District of Florida)
Pete Aguilar

Congressman (33rd District of California)
Liz Cheney

Former Congresswoman (Wyoming)
Adam Kinzinger

Former Congressman (11th & 16th Districts of Illinois)
Jamie Raskin

Ranking Member, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability
Bennie G. Thompson

Congressman (2nd District of Mississippi)
Elaine Luria

Former Congresswoman (2nd District of Virginia)
Adam Schiff

Congressman (30th District of California)

2022

Frank Baker

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Siris Capital Group
Brian Moynihan

Chair of the Board and CEO, Bank of America
Bill Russell

Former NBA Player and Civil Rights Icon
President Volodymyr Zelensky

President of Ukraine
Michael Polsky

Founder and CEO, Invenergy
Prince Harry and Meghan

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex

2021

Deven Parekh

Managing Director, Insight Partners
José E. Feliciano

Managing Partner and Co-Founder, Clearlake Capital Group; Co-Chairman, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
Stacey Abrams

Lawyer, Voting Rights Activist, Author, and Former Congresswoman (84th & 89th Districts of Georgia)
Amanda Gorman

Poet and Activist

2020

Dr. Anthony Fauci

Former Chief Medical Advisor to the President of United States
Dolores Huerta

American labor leader
Colin Kaepernick

Former NFL Player and Activist
Dan Schulman

President and CEO of PayPal
Dan Springer

CEO of DocuSign

2019

Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Wendy Abrams

Founder of Cool Globes
Glen Tullman

Executive Chairman and Founder of Livongo Health

2018

Barack Obama

44th U.S President
Bruce D. Broussard

President and CEO of Humana
Phil Murphy

Governor of New Jersey
David Zaslav

CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery

2017

Harry Belafonte

American singer and actor
Alex Gorsky

Chief Executive Officer of Johnson & Johnson
Hamdi Ulukaya

CEO of Chobani

2016

Joseph R. Biden, Jr.

46th U.S. President
Scott Minerd

Founding and managing partner at Guggenheim Partners.
Howard Schultz

Former CEO of Starbucks

2015

Tim Cook

CEO of Apple
Roger Altman

Evercore Founder
Marianna Vardinoyannis

Greek ambassador and activist
John Lewis

Civil Rights Leader and US Representative

2014

Robert De Niro

American Actor
Tony Bennett

American singer
Hillary Rodham Clinton

Former United States Secretary of State
Donato Tramuto

CEO of Tivity Health, Inc.

2013

Muhammad Yunus

Chief Adviser of Bangladesh
John Boyer

Chairman of the MAXIMUS Foundation Board of Directors

2012

Vincent Mai

American businessman and Philanthropist
Taylor Swift

American Musician

2011

Al Gore

Businessman and former Vice President of the United States
Dennis Mathisen

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Marshall Bankfirst Corp

2010

George Clooney

American actor and Filmmaker
Marc Spilker

Founding Member of GPS Investment Partners, LLC and the Executive Chairman of Merchant Investment Management, LLC.

2009

Bono

Irish singer-songwriter and Activist
Wyclef Jean

Haitian rapper and Record Producer

2008

Clive Davis

American Record Producer
Desmond Tutu

South African bishop and Theologian
Afsaneh Beschloss

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, RockCreek

Initial Laureates

Bill Clinton

42nd President of the United States
Bob Pittman

American Businessman and Media Executive