Human Rights Award Laureate
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Governor Janet Mills
Janet Trafton Mills was sworn in as the 75th Governor of Maine on January 2, 2019, the first woman to hold this role. The voters of Maine re-elected her as governor in 2022. Governor Mills was born in Farmington, Maine, which she still calls home today, and is the daughter of a high school English…
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Jeanette Vizguerra
Jeanette Vizguerra is a Colorado community activist and leader who is facing deportation and removal back to Mexico. Jeanette has led the fight against her own deportation now since 2009. She previously sought refuge at a Denver church rather than expose her family to the dangers of Trump’s immigration agents. In 2017, Jeanette was recognized…
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Attorney Elizabeth Oyer
Liz Oyer is an experienced attorney and justice advocate. She most recently served in the Department of Justice as United States Pardon Attorney (April 2022 to March 2025), overseeing the Office of the Pardon Attorney. In that role, Liz was responsible for reviewing applications from individuals across the country seeking pardons and commutations of sentence…
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Arely Westley
Tags Share A longtime advocate for immigrant, Latinx, and LGBTQ+ communities, Arely Westley works with numerous organizations in New Orleans to uplift LGBTQ+ youth, stop abuses in ICE detention facilities, and expand access to immigrant support services. Recognized for her tireless efforts to combat injustice, Westley joins a distinguished group of more than 50 defenders…
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Alessandra Korap Munduruku
Tags Share Alessandra Korap Munduruku, 36, is a human rights defender and leader of the Munduruku people of the Tapajós River Middle Course. Born in the village of Praia do Índio, in the municipality of Itaituba (Pará) in the Brazilian Amazon region, she taught early childhood education from 2014 to 2015 and was the coordinator…
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Angry Tias and Abuelas of the Rio Grande Valley
Tags Share The Angry Tias and Abuelas of the Rio Grande Valley are a collective group of women from South Texas who provide emergency assistance to asylum seekers at ports of entry and bus stations along the U.S.-Mexico border. The group aims to offer food, water, clothing, toiletries, logistical support, and cash funds when needed…
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Detained Migrant Solidarity Committee
Tags Share The Detained Migrant Solidarity Committee (DMSC) reunites families by assisting in paying bonds to release detained immigrants and helping them to avoid exploitative bail bond lenders, which improves their chances in immigration court. They are respected liberation activists in the region who work to challenge the inhumanity of the U.S. migrant detention system…
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La Unión del Pueblo Entero
Tags Share Founded in 1989 by farmworker movement leaders Dolores Huerta and César Chávez, and established in the Rio Grande Valley in 2003, La Unión del Pueblo Entero (LUPE) is a community-based union that serves the colonias and low-income neighborhoods of Hidalgo County through community organizing and social services. LUPE also works to fight deportations…
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March For Our Lives
Tags Share March For Our Lives is a non-profit organization created by the current students and alumni of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Rising from the ashes of tragedy, these young adults have sparked a fire in the hearts of every generation in America – specifically the youth, leading the next generation…
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The International Indigenous Youth Council
Tags Share The International Indigenous Youth Council (IIYC) is an organization that was started and led by womxn and two-spirit peoples during the Standing Rock Indigenous Uprising of 2016, while peacefully protecting the Cannonball and Missouri Rivers against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The organization has extended its reach by establishing chapters across…
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United We Dream
Tags Share United We Dream (UWD) is the largest immigrant youth-led organization in the nation, a powerful network made up of over 400,000 members and 48 affiliate organizations across 26 states. UWD’s vision is to build a multi-racial, multi-ethnic movement of young people who organize and advocate at the local and national levels for the…
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Color Of Change
Tags Share Color Of Change is the nation’s largest online racial justice organization. As a national online force driven by over one million members, Color of Change moves decision makers in corporations and government to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people in America. The organization our members to take action…
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