Ripple of Hope Award Laureate
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Earvin “Magic” Johnson
Earvin “Magic” Johnson is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Magic Johnson Enterprises, an investment conglomerate that provides high-quality products and services that focus primarily on ethnically diverse and underserved urban communities. Having left the basketball court for the boardroom, Johnson parlayed the skills and tenacity he acquired on the court into a winning…
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Stefano Lucchini
Stefano Lucchini is Chairman of the Associazione Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Foundation of Italy since 2020. After graduating in Economics from LUISS University in Rome, he joined the Montedison Economic Studies department in 1987 where he was later appointed Head of Corporate Communication and Investor Relations at Montedison USA. In 1988, he was awarded…
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Susan Clark Livingston
Susan Livingston is a member of the Board of Directors of RFK Human Rights. During her 42 years in global financial services, she became one of the first female partners of America’s oldest and largest private bank: Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (“BBH”), founded in 1818. Livingston was primarily responsible for the global expansion of…
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Tom Wilson
Tom Wilson is chair, president, and CEO of The Allstate Corporation, where he has led the company through the global financial crisis, adaptation to climate change, and post-pandemic inflation. Wilson is a public advocate for business playing a broad role in improving society and actively participates in leadership of both business and community organizations. Through…
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Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda is a Pulitzer Prize, Grammy, Emmy, and Tony award-winning songwriter, actor, director, and producer. He is the creator and original star of Broadway’s Hamilton and In the Heights, and the Academy Award-nominated songwriter of Disney’s Moana and Encanto. Miranda and his family are active supporters of initiatives that increase people of color’s representation…
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John W. Rogers, Jr.
John W. Rogers, Jr. serves as Founder, Chairman, Co-CEO and CIO of Ariel Investments. John’s passion for investing began at age 12 when his father began buying him stocks as Christmas and birthday gifts. His interest in equities grew while in college and over the two-plus years he worked as a stockbroker for William Blair…
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Antonio Neri
Antonio Neri is president and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) where he is responsible for leading the development and delivery of technology solutions and services that help organizations accelerate business outcomes by unlocking value from their data. Under his leadership, HPE has been consistently recognized as a great place to work and was ranked…
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Al Gore
Tags Share The 1993 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Vice President Al Gore for Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit. A bracing call to action, Earth in the Balance argues that we must make “rescue of the environment the central organizing principle for civilization.” The book focuses on the…
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Dr. Anthony Fauci
Tags Share Dr. Anthony Fauci was appointed director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in 1984. He oversees an extensive portfolio of basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose, and treat established infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases, tuberculosis, and malaria, emerging diseases such as Ebola and Zika,…
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Dolores Huerta
Tags Share Dolores Huerta is a labor leader and community organizer who has worked to promote civil rights and social justice for over 50 years. In 1962, she and Cesar Chavez founded the United Farm Workers union; she served as vice president and played a critical role in many of the union’s accomplishments for four…
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Dan Schulman
Tags Share As president and CEO of PayPal, Dan Schulman is focused on democratizing and transforming financial services and e-commerce to improve the financial health of billions of people and businesses around the world. Under his leadership, PayPal has been named one of the top companies on JUST Capital and Forbes’ list of the JUST…
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Dan Springer
Tags Share Dan Springer is the CEO of DocuSign, the company that pioneered e-signature and now helps organizations to automate their entire agreement process. Under Dan’s leadership, the company is also committing money, time and other resources to help preserve the world’s forests—through DocuSign for Forests, and other initiatives under the ‘DocuSign IMPACT’ umbrella. Dan…
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