Award Profile
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Andrés Cediel and Team
Tags Share High School Broadcast Winner “Homeless in the Heartland,” Kaley Prier, Savanna Steffen, John Harmon, Kara Mullen, Kelsey Williams, Caleb Brown, Cody House, Ryan Lindsey, and Breanna Feemster, Hillcrest High School, Springfield, MO High School Print Winner “Stop-and-Frisk: Time for a Change,” Linda Sankat and Autumn Spanne, Youth Communication, YCteen College Journalism Winner “A…
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Richard Marosi and Don Barletti
Tags Share High School Broadcast Winner “Our Cameras, Our Stories,” John Alpert and Team, Downtown Community Television Center, New York High School Print Winner “Eyes on Ferguson,” Gwyneth Henke, The Globe, Clayton High School, Clayton, MO College Journalism Winner “Wrongful Convictions,” Alec Klein & Team, Medill Justice Project, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Domestic Print Winner…
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Matt Black
Tags Share High School Broadcast Winner “The Jellybean Jar of Life: Nick’s Story,” Becca Kristofferson, Jacob Jaeger, Dylan Goodman, and Seamus Levin, Mexico High School, Missouri High School Print Winner “What One Family Could Never Forget,” Anthony Kristensen, North Star, Francis Howell North High School, Missouri College Journalism Winner “Land of Broken Promises,” Depth Reporting…
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James Alexander and Team
Tags Share High School Print Winner “Cheering Through It All,” Alexis Christo, North Star, Francis Howell North High School College Journalism Winner “M-Powered: University of Mississippi Students Learn through Service in Belize,” Patricia Thompson, University of Mississippi Domestic Print Winner “Prognosis: Profits,” James Alexander, Karen Garloch, Joseph Neff, David Raynor, Jim Walser, and Steve Riley,…
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Jaime Prieto Mendez
Tags Share Jaime Prieto Mendez is a leading figure in the Colombian human rights movement. Prieto began his career as a teacher in a poor area of Bogotá. Feeling that lack of “human rights literacy” increased the abuses against the poor, he began a human rights education program for which he was later imprisoned. In…
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Berenice Celeita Alayon
Tags Share Berenice Celeita Alayon attributes the beginning of her human rights activism to the 1985 Palace of Justice siege in which M-19 guerrillas took the Supreme Court of Colombia hostage, killing 11 of its 25 justices. At the time Celeita was a freshman in college and lost several of her professors. She later founded…
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Archbishop Michael Kpakala Francis
Tags Share Following the wreckage of Liberia’s first civil war, Archbishop Michael Kpakala Francis became a vital voice for positive change, calling upon the international community to help keep peace, reconstruct the nation, and usher Liberia towards democracy. His organizations, the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission and Radio Veritas, have worked with Robert F. Kennedy…
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Mario Calixto
Tags Share Mario Calixto was the President of the Human Rights Committee of Sabana de Torres in the 1990s and was repeatedly threatened by paramilitary groups for his denunciation of their activities. As of 1988 he has been living in exile in Spain.
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Gloria Florez
Tags Share Gloria Florez is a Colombian activist on behalf of displaced persons. She is the head of MINGA, an “Association for Alternative Social Policy”. In 2004, MINGA advocated on behalf of the people of the Catatumbo region, 30,000 of whom were displaced following heavy fighting.
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Anonymous
Tags Share “Courage means a lot of things to me: it means commitment, it means hope. It means thinking first of others. It means a strong belief in human rights, a strong belief in the power of the people, and it means turning our backs on the power of the rulers. Courage will bring change…
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Sezgin Tanrikulu
Tags Share Tanrikulu is the leading human rights attorney in Turkish Kurdistan, a strong advocate of legal reform and strengthening civil society. Co-founder of the Diyarbakir Human Rights Association, the Secretary of the Bar Association in Diyarbakir, and the regional representative of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, his work has taken him where few…
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Senal Sarihan
Tags Share Senal Sarihan was once sentenced to 22 years in prison for exercising her right to freedom of expression. As a member of the Executive Committee of the Turkish Teachers Commission, she wrote pro-union articles for the commission’s monthly newspaper. These writings caught the attention of Turkey’s military regime, and in 1971 she was…
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