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PANEL OF JUDGES 2013
JOSEPH CAHALAN President, Xerox Corporation
LESTER CLARAVALL Child Labor Director, Oklahoma Department of Labor
KRISTEN KREPLE Counsel to Senator Herb Kohl, Committee on the Judiciary
JEFFREY NEWMAN President & Executive Director, National Child Labor Committee
WILLIAM O’REILLY Tri-State Management Consultants
ANA PAGAN Director, Human Services Agency, Merced County
CHRISTINE PARK President, New York Life Foundation
JANET WOLF Assistant to Joan Ganz Cooney
NATIONAL CHILD LABOR COMMITTEE
Chair ERIK BUTLER President, Human Investment Institute
Vice Chair BETSY BRAND Director, American Youth Policy Forum
Treasurer J. ROBERT CAREY Member (Retired), Board of Education, Greenwich, Connecticut
Secretary V. W. (JIM) STEWARD Ambassador (Retired)
Directors ELIZABETH N. CALLAWAY Dean of Admissions (Retired), The Dwight School
BERTRAM CARP, ESQ. Principal, Williams & Jensen
MICHAEL COHEN, PhD President, Michael Cohen Group
TRACEY BROWN JAMES, ESQ. Partner, The Cochran Firm
GERTRUD LENZER, PhD Director, Children’s Study Center, CUNY
BERNARD MELEKIAN Director, COPS, U.S. Department of Justice
THOMAS ROYER, MD CEO Emeritus, CHRISTUS Health
LEKEVIN SMITH Denver Broncos
Staff
JEFFREY NEWMAN President & Executive Director
SUSAN LADNER, ESQ. Vice President & Director of KAPOW
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LETTER
Vincent A. Mai
CEO, Cranemere LLC and Chair, 2013 Lewis Hine Awards
For more than a quarter of
a century the Lewis Hine Awards
have done what its first chair, Hicks
Waldron of Avon Products, Inc., called
bringing “the real people to the party
… no frills, just a spotlight on the men
and women who every day work to
improve our children’s lives.” That
truly is what distinguishes this event
and these honorees from many others,
and it is why I am so pleased to be a
part of it this year.
Our recipients and special
honorees represent professionals and
volunteers from Fairbanks, Alaska to
New Rochelle, New York, from St.
Petersburg, Florida to Los Angeles,
any nation, depends on the health
California; in other words almost
and well-being of its children, and
the entire geographic scope of our
it is the people on these pages who
nation—and, not coincidentally,
we look to to help keep families and
virtually the entire breadth of our
communities strong and vibrant.
The well-being of our nation, of
support systems for children and
youth. Though you cannot tonight
the well-being of our nation, of any
read the descriptions of the almost
nation, depends on the health and
300 recipients of Hine honors since
well-being of its children.
1985, be aware that the ones you
can read about in this book are fully
representative of those who came
before.
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LETTER
Jeffrey Newman
President & Executive Director, National Child Labor Committee
children
look to the
adults in their
It is not possible for me to
year because they believe that we
write this letter, which is designed
all have a responsibility to make
to help honor the 2013 Lewis
the lives and well-being of children
Hine Award recipients, without
our very first priority. Their heroism
referencing the tragedies that have
stands out in stark contrast to those
struck so many children and youth
who would violate this most basic of
in our nation this past year. From
precepts, those who would do harm
Colorado to Connecticut, from New
to our young people, our families, our
York and New Jersey to California
communities.
and Wisconsin, young people have
communities to
been horrifically victimized.
years, we honor our Hine laureates
keep them safe,
and in doing so we need to recognize
to support
adults in their communities, to
the absolutely primal importance of
them in growing
protect them, to keep them safe
their caring, giving roles.
up. And that
from harm, to enable them to grow
crucial role
for us must not
change.
Children look to us, look to the
up with a minimum of pain and
a maximum of support. And that
crucial role for adults will not and
must not change. Organizations like
the National Child Labor Committee
were founded with that principle
foremost, and with the notion that
the journey from childhood to
adulthood should be as burden-free
and as learning-filled as possible.
The Hine recipients we honor
tonight are caretakers of our
children, and put themselves on
the line every day throughout the
This year, perhaps above all recent
THE NATIONAL CHILD LABOR COMMITTEE
heroes in the storm
Of the events that shook our nation this past year, which stand out the most? Surely one such
event was Hurricane Sandy: a storm of unprecedented scope, and a portent of great change and great
challenge. Sandy was an occasion for heroism, too, whether by individuals who rescued others from shattered homes and submerging streets, or by the thousands of “first responders”––those firefighters, police,
and emergency medical personnel who do their utmost as a matter of course, simply because it is their job
and they know we count on them.
Heroism: this notion is likewise at the heart of the Lewis Hine Awards, given by the National Child
Labor Committee each year to men and women who do outstanding work on behalf of children and youth.
Our awardees also fight storms: the silent and insidious storms of poverty and inequity that threaten vulnerable young people throughout this country.
A 2012 federal report on child and family statistics reveals that despite improvements in health and
education for children and youth, too many remain at risk; and in some categories, more so now than in
years past. Twenty-two percent of children live in poverty, up from 17 percent in 2006. Only 71 percent
live in families with at least one parent working full time. Forty-five percent of households with children
are overcrowded or inadequate. Other statistics are similarly dismaying. And the report also shows that
minority children remain at disproportionate risk; this is a terrible irony, given that voter turnout in the
2012 presidential election reflected a further demographic
shift away from whites and towards people of color. By
2040 or 2050, we will have a “minority majority” in this
country; and yet outdated barriers persist.
Fortunately, we can draw inspiration from our own
“first responders.” Be they professional or volunteer, our
Lewis Hine awardees rarely stand in the spotlight. Yet they
serve on the front lines just as much as any firefighter, police officer, or emergency medical technician. From many
walks of life, they have each worked to bring out the best in
young people, and they have each succeeded. They know
we are counting on them. The storm is raging––but as with
all great challenges, we can win if we just persist.
LETTER
Erik Butler
Chair, National Child Labor Committee
these few are
not alone. For
each lewis hine
We are gathered tonight
careers, family, active citizenship, and
for the 27th time to celebrate a
human relationships.
few of the many volunteers and
professionals who have committed
known, as Lewis Hine was when he
their talents, their time, and—for
began to travel the nation to document
some—their professional lives to
the appalling exploitation of child
the welfare and growth of America’s
workers. You should remember these
children and youth. To those who
few are not alone. For every Lewis
ask, “who will mind our children,”
Hine Award recipient you will meet
These heroes are modest and little-
these are among those unsung
tonight, there are ten more, a hundred
award recipient,
heroes who have stepped forward to
more, whose stories are similarly
there are ten
answer, “I will.” Too often we ignore
compelling.
more, a hundred
or look away from our young people,
more like them,
and we fail to keep them safe, or in
recognizing these amazing people and
whose stories
our own busy lives do not find room
their counterparts from every part
for complication. In recent weeks,
of the country for more than twenty
perhaps we have begun to turn our
years, and the Board of Trustees and
attention back to them.
the staff of the National Child Labor
Committee are inspired anew every
are similarly
compelling.
Our remarkable honorees
The Lewis Hine Awards have been
tonight—and the many others
year. By now there have been nearly
that they represent—have never
300 recipients of this recognition,
looked away. Tonight you will meet
past and present. Collectively and
a few of the professionals and
individually they represent the deepest
the volunteers who have stepped
quality of active caring, and the
forward out of love and duty, who
highest standards of our field. They
labor with little public notice to be
also embody heroism, and make us
sure that the oncoming generations
proud to share their commitments
are prepared for the opportunities
by this modest, but much-deserved
and responsibilities of adult life—
recognition.
2013 lewis hine awardees
professionals
Anne-Marie Braga
Risa Vetri Ferman
Dwain E. Johnson
Lynn Margherio
Kathy Watkins
volunteers
Connie Kennedy
Stan Krzanowski
Patricia Myers
Deborah Ostreicher
Pam Rice
Nancy Daly Advocacy Award
Jennifer Perry
Ronald H. Brown Award
Alberto M. Carvalho
New Generation Award
Shivani Alamo
PROFESSIONAL
Anne-Marie Braga
Denver, Colorado
“anne-marie has
paved paths for
young people
in colorado to
participate in
civic dialogUE.”
Alice Swett, Youth Opportunities Coordinator, Boulder, Colorado
Nominated by
Alice Swett, Youth
Opportunities
Coordinator, Boulder,
Colorado
On the phone, Anne-Marie Braga
rattles off ideas with the excitement of a
teenager––which is perhaps fitting, since
it’s teenagers who have benefited so remarkably from her six-year tenure as a
health administrator for the Colorado
Department of Public Health and Environment. “I talk a lot, but it’s not ego,
it’s enthusiasm,” Anne-Marie says with a
laugh. “I love having a balance between
having great ideas and putting them into
action, and I love the positivity of young
people.”
The key word here is “positivity.”
Traveling across Colorado to create
partnerships and policies and conversations, Anne-Marie has transformed the
state’s approach to reflect a relatively
new model, “positive youth development.” This model holds that the most
effective way to persuade young people
to avoid health risks, such as unprotected sex or drinking and driving, is to seek
their input, help them build strengths
and skills, and support them in healthy
relationships. The model is popular nationwide, but it hadn’t been applied by
the state in Colorado until Anne-Marie
came on board in 2005.
Earlier, Anne-Marie had been a case
manager for young women in rural Arkansas, and for kids in tough New York
City neighborhoods. She loved her work,
yet decided to get an MS in program de-
velopment and administration: “I realized
that by changing a policy, I could help not
just my caseload, but hundreds or thousands of people.”
In Colorado, Anne-Marie has done just
that. A team she built of public-private partnerships has issued a strategy and action
guide, to be backed by coordinated funding
and technical assistance. A guide to sexual
health for youth will empower communities to advocate for more and better sex
education in schools (sex ed is optional in
the state’s school districts). A program has
been created in a Latino neighborhood of
Denver, where teen pregnancy is an issue,
to teach parents how to talk with their kids
about sexual health and relationships. And
in every case, Anne-Marie has, as she likes
to say, “walked the talk” with youth input:
not only did she give her youth advisory
board responsibility for key sections of reports, but she successfully lobbied to hire
youth as actual staff. A former member of
the youth advisory board, who has since
begun her own career in public health, says
it was Anne-Marie who helped her realize
“how much her voice matters.”
Anne-Marie laughs again, and says
she’s just doing what she loves to do: “To
see young people succeed, I get the biggest
kick out of that. I think I’m just wired that
way.”
PROFESSIONAL
Risa Vetri Ferman
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
It might sound at first like a joke,
Risa Vetri Ferman says matter of factly, but
it’s true: starting out in 1993 as an assistant
district attorney for Montgomery County,
she was given a choice between taking on
cases of child sexual abuse, on the one
hand, or complicated financial crimes,
on the other––and chose the abuse cases
largely because she was bad at math. What
she discovered in tackling her new specialty, however, was anything but a joke:
police and courts had been neglecting accusations of child abuse, to the extent that
the first few cases she tackled had been
languishing for over a year. Case files were
so thin they contained little more than the
victim’s statement, with no effort at finding
corroborating evidence.
“I saw the agony families were living
with,” says Risa, who in 2007 won election
as the county’s chief DA. “The children
had reported something, and now they
were waiting in that investigative system
and nobody had the courage to take a shot.
And so I put the cases together and worked
them and was able to get justice.”
Back then Risa had to build her cases
one detective, one police chief, one judge at
a time. Eventually these relationships bore
fruit, and she and her allies won support
for two new institutions to help with prosecuting cases: MCAP and Mission Kids.
MCAP, which stands for the Montgomery
Child Advocacy Project, was co-founded
in 2004 by Risa and a colleague, Wendy
Demchick-Alloy. It provides abuse victims with legal representation in court
in situations where the child’s chief caregiver (typically a parent) has chosen to
side with the abuser rather than with the
child. Last year alone, MCAP volunteer
lawyers represented 364 children.
Just as important is the Mission Kids
Child Advocacy Center, co-founded in
2008 by Risa and Laurie O’Connor, director of the county Office of Children
and Youth. The center provides a space
where forensic investigators from all
disciplines can interview victims with
as little distress to the child as possible.
The approach builds stronger cases, Risa
says, while providing support for the
child and family to begin healing. Last
year, 394 children were interviewed at
the center.
As proud as she is of these efforts,
Risa notes that the nation has yet to acknowledge the true scope of child sexual
abuse, with one out of four girls and one
out of six boys likely to be abused by age
18. “My goal is to see these numbers reduced,” she says. “And the only way is
for all of us to step up and get involved.”
“risa cares
about kids,
and she makes
sure the system
cares about
kids.”
David Duffy,
Chief of Police, Upper Gwynedd Township, Pennsylvania
Nominated by
Amy Charles,
Associate Director,
Mission Kids Child
Advocacy Center
PROFESSIONAL
Dwain E. Johnson
Baltimore, Maryland
“dwain has the
trust of the
younG people
he works with,
which is no
small accomplishment.”
Linda McWilliams,
Deputy Secretary,
Maryland Department
of Juvenile Services
Nominated by
Sam Abed,
Secretary, Maryland
Department of
Juvenile Services
In the mid-2000s, gang- and drugrelated homicide had become a devastating epidemic in Baltimore: the city’s
child homicide rate was more than eight
times the national average, with a median age for victims of only 16. The governor’s office and the secretary for the
state’s Department of Juvenile Services
came up with what they hoped would be
the answer: a special Violence Preventative Initiative, or VPI, targeted at juveniles whose records showed they were
at high risk of perpetuating the cycle of
violence. For the initiative to succeed,
someone special would be needed to
lead it––and luckily, Abed knew of the
perfect candidate: Dwain E. Johnson, a
highly regarded juvenile case manager
in the department’s Metro region, just
outside of Washington, D.C.
Having switched in 2000 from a career in hotel management to juvenile
services, Dwain had quickly shown his
capability as a supervisor, needing only
a few years to reinvigorate the team of
probation officers under his guidance in
the Metro region. Yet the task in Baltimore would be daunting. The VPI would
start with 250 youth whose records indicated involvement in drugs or gang
violence; many had themselves been
wounded in shootings, and would likely
attempt retaliatory shootings if not persuaded otherwise. Dwain would need to
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lead by example, motivating VPI probation
officers to rise above the ordinary, to reach
out and give hope to demoralized young
people whom society had already dismissed as hopeless. It was an audacious
message to send not only to youth but to
families, police, and the courts––but could
he deliver it?
In a word, yes. Since 2008, when Dwain
began his new role, juvenile homicides
have dropped by 46 percent; the rate of
non-fatal shootings by 70 percent. The
program has been expanded to other areas
in Maryland with similar success. An effective tactic has been to persuade juveniles
to comply with court orders keeping them
out of the neighborhoods where they got
wounded in shootings, thus cutting down
on retaliatory shootings. Probation officers
can employ tools such as GPS ankle bracelets and enforced relocation––but the most
effective tool of all, Dwain says, is frequent
and caring conversation.
Thanks to Dwain’s teams of VPI officers, young lives are saved––and sometimes, changed. Dwain points to the graduation ceremony he holds each year for
those youth who not only have stayed safe,
but earned their GEDs: “I make a huge
deal out of it. I invite the secretary, I invite
the dignitaries from court. And they come
downstairs and we give the kids awards.
And you would be surprised to see the
eyes of these kids light up.”
VOLUNTEER
Connie Kennedy
New Rochelle, New York
As Connie Kennedy admits, she has
always enjoyed a “very nice life”: a warm
family upbringing, with a mother who encouraged her to help others; a lifelong habit of fitness (she’s a runner); and a great job
for more than 30 years now as a manager
with a company leasing cargo containers
worldwide. Yet she still remembers, back in
1987, coming across an article in the paper
about people whose lives were not quite so
nice: poor children and families shunted
into New York City’s notorious welfare hotels. “I did what I usually did,” she recalls.
“I said, ‘Gee, I should get involved,’ and
five minutes later forgot about it.”
A couple of weeks later, with fall coming on, Connie came across a letter to the
editor referencing the article. What if, the
writer asked, everyone who was well-off
in New York did no more than buy shoes
and a backpack for the children living in
these hotels, to help them get ready for
school? “I thought about it,” Connie says.
“And I said to myself, ‘Hmm, why don’t I
raise funds and buy sneakers for 10 kids in
a welfare hotel?’”
With the help of friends and colleagues, she raised $900, got a matching
amount from Sears, and bought outfits and
sneakers for 10 children. A social worker
arranged for the clothing to be delivered
to families at the Alps Motel, in the Bronx.
The next year Connie did it again, for 25
kids. The year after that, her efforts caught
the attention of a council promoting
corporate volunteerism in Westchester
County––and with that, things really took
off. Twenty-five years later, the nonprofit
she founded, Back-to-School Clothes for
Kids, is a humming network of partnerships between agencies, schools, and local shopping malls in Westchester and
the Bronx, assisted by volunteers and
sponsorships from not only individuals,
but nearly 60 corporations and social
organizations. In 2012, nearly 1,000 children received new clothes and supplies
for school. Two things are especially
gratifying, Connie says: how eager people are to volunteer, and how grateful
kids are to be thought of.
Of the many thank-you notes Connie
has received over the years, one stands
out: from a girl named Shawn, who at the
time was 15 and living at the Boston Hotel in the Bronx. “Dear Miss Kennedy,”
the letter reads, “I’d like to thank you. It’s
the first time anyone has given me a variety of clothes to wear to school when
I really need it.” Says Connie, “I’ve read
that letter for 25 years, and every time, I
get choked up.”
“connie’s compassion and dedication to helping children are infectious.”
Larry Coleman, Senior Safety/Materials Supervisor, AkzoNobel Chemicals
Nominated by
Larry Coleman,
Senior Safety/
Materials Supervisor,
AkzoNobel
Chemicals
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VOLUNTEER
Stan Krzanowski
Canton, Connecticut
“stan works
quietly, but he
works caringly
and effectively,
day after day.”
Richard J. Barlow,
First Selectman,
Town of Canton
Nominated by
Richard J. Barlow,
First Selectman,
Town of Canton,
Connecticut
When Stan Krzanowski was growing up in the little suburban town of
Canton, CT, in the 1940s and 1950s, his
passion was baseball. He played in both
Little League and high school––mostly
second base, but other positions as
needed. In baseball lingo, players who
can fill multiple spots are known as utility players, and a good one is both humble and as valuable as gold. As Stan puts
it: “My philosophy was, the first thing is,
get on the team. Then, get on the field.
And wherever they need you, that’s what
you do.”
Stan has since raised a family and retired from a career in industrial pipe supply. But he still lives in Canton, and he
still has the eagerness and versatility of
a utility player: for nearly 35 years now,
he’s been filling in wherever needed to
improve town youth activities. Starting
in 1977, when he began coaching his
son’s Little League team, Stan has contributed in countless ways––everything
from helping to organize a new teen center, to making sure Canton’s ball fields
are in perfect shape so kids can get the
most pleasure out of them.
For Little League alone, Stan has
been coach, manager, player agent,
vice president, treasurer, president, and
chairman. More tangibly, he arranges
annual fundraisers; gets local businesses to buy ads on the billboards he
has ringed around the ball fields; and organizes volunteers periodically to renovate the fields. When a young ballplayer
died in a plane crash in 2005, Stan organized a tournament of night games in the
boy’s honor. And each year, he makes sure
coaches, players, and parents focus not on
winning, but on sportsmanship, teamwork,
and sheer enjoyment. “It’s keeping things
in perspective,” Stan says. “Kids have to
learn it’s more important to do your best
and work together, than it is to win.”
Stan has been just as active for the
town Youth Bureau, not only as treasurer
and member of a committee on substance
abuse, but as an organizer of volunteer
projects of all sorts. He was the one, for
example, who managed the renovation of
a disused teen center in town, so that once
again it could offer kids a couple of nights
a week to get out of the house and enjoy
themselves in a safe and social setting.
Yet as much as Stan loves to get projects up and running and people motivated
to volunteer alongside him, he doesn’t consider his activities anything special: “It’s
all part of my daily life. There’s so many
things that can be done, if you just get up
and do them.”
PROFESSIONAL
Lynn Margherio
Boston, Massachsetts
Throughout the 1990s and early
2000s, Lynn Margherio enjoyed a fascinating and diverse consulting career––albeit
one that kept her constantly on the road.
Whether strategizing on product launches
for Fortune 500 companies, or analyzing
health and economic policy during her
years at the Clinton White House, she was
seldom home; so seldom, she recalls, that
she never got around to acquiring much in
the way of possessions. So it was all the
more striking, during the holidays of 2001,
to visit her young nephew and niece back
in Michigan, and find herself having to literally straddle all the gifts accumulating in
their bedrooms and playrooms.
Two things stood out to Lynn: of the
clothes given to her fast-growing niece,
many were already too small for her to
wear; and of the countless toys given to
her nephew, he only liked to play with a
couple of them. Her nephew and niece
weren’t unique, Lynn knew: affluent children across the country typically get more
than they can make use of.
And that was when Lynn had her revelation. Why not recycle such perfectly usable items? Why not invent a way to gather
them as donations, and distribute them to
families whose financial struggles meant
that normally they’d have no way of getting their children something as simple as a
new winter coat, or books to read for bedtime stories?
In 2002, Lynn founded a fledgling nonprofit, Cradles to Crayons. Ten years
later, Cradles to Crayons operates a bustling warehouse in Boston and a similar
warehouse in Philadelphia. Each day,
volunteers from businesses and the community sort donated items and repackage them for distribution to homeless
shelters, early intervention programs,
community health centers, mentoring
programs, hospitals, and public schools
in low-income neighborhoods; these in
turn distribute the items to needy children and families. In 2012 alone, Cradles
to Crayons mobilized more than 38,000
volunteers and 1,450 community collection drives, helping distribute nearly
100,000 packages of essential items to
needy children: clothing, books, shoes,
developmental toys, and more.
Not only is the model a powerful way
to tap into volunteerism, Lynn says, but
it has been refined to make it more versatile: for example, a special drive, quickly organized and carried out in a parking
lot in 2005, delivered five tractor-trailers’
worth of items to children in Louisiana
displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
Lynn is hopeful about the future. And
what gives her this hope, she says, is seeing daily the flood of people who come
to the warehouse, eager to help others:
“They want to do more than just write a
check. They want to make it personal.”
“lynn puts her heart and soul into making a long-term impact on children and familIes.”
Sharon Scott-Chandler, Executive Vice President, ABCD, Inc.
Nominated by
Anthony Pierantozzi,
Superintendent of
Schools, Somerville,
Massachusetts
VOLUNTEER
Patricia Myers
Fairbanks, Alaska
“pat myers
guides troubled
kids at the
fairbanks
facility to see
who they can
be, without
being boxed
in by who they
were.”
Tim Oney, Juvenile Justice Unit Supervisor, Fairbanks Youth Facility
Nominated by
Tim Oney, Juvenile
Justice Unit
Supervisor, Fairbanks
Youth Facility
The Fairbanks Youth Facility, a
plain, blocky building on Wilber Street,
is not big. It holds at most 37 residents,
and is seldom full. Even so it is the
second-largest juvenile correction and
treatment facility in Alaska, handling
youthful offenders from across the state’s
arctic and sub-arctic expanse. Some are
in short-term detention, awaiting court;
others are in long-term treatment, learning a trade such as auto repair or construction while they study for their GED.
But short-term or long, many have this
in common: since they have no family
nearby, or in some cases, no family at all,
they get no visitors. Except that they are
lucky––they do have someone to visit
them, in the person of Patricia Myers.
A long-time Fairbanks resident with
grown children of her own, Pat has volunteered weekly at the facility for more
than a decade. She comes during visiting hours, looks to see which kids don’t
actually get visitors, and then spends an
hour or so with them, two kids at a time.
She’ll bring candy or soda pop to share,
or a deck of playing cards if that’s what
puts them at ease. But mostly, she listens. “My thing is to be present, to be
visible,” Pat says. “I have no agenda. I
just listen to what they have to say. It’s
amazing what these kids know and what
they have going on in their lives.”
Many of the kids are deeply home-
sick; a surprising number are struggling
with grief or loss. “They have a lot of suicides in some of those villages,” Pat notes,
“an uncle or a brother or a cousin or some
other family member. And so then they
don’t know how to deal with all that, and
they start masking it with alcohol or fighting.”
Facility officials are grateful for Pat’s
quiet yet positive influence on relationships over time, and note that she is the
only such volunteer they have ever had.
She says she nags kids to study, for the
sake of their future, but not about anything
else. She is unique not only in her nonjudgmental attitude, but in her willingness to
volunteer in a locked unit––her composure
she says comes from having worked for
many years as a psychiatric nurse. She first
started volunteering around 2002 while
earning a BA in social work from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and has never
seen a reason to stop.
“I just like doing it,” Pat says. “Kids
are interesting to me. People don’t listen
to them, and they’ve got a lot to say. And
the long-term is, they know that somebody
somewhere cares.”
VOLUNTEER
Deborah Ostreicher
Phoenix, Arizona
Back in 1995, when she moved to Phoenix for what promised to be a job in international marketing, Deborah Ostreicher
never thought she’d wind up living there
permanently; she had always pictured
herself in Washington, D.C., or New York
City, or San Francisco––“what I called at
the time ‘a real city,’” she says with a laugh.
But serendipity changed that. She soon
met her future husband; found a better
job more to her liking, doing publicity for
Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport; and perhaps most serendipitously of
all, answered an ad in the local paper looking for mentors for homeless children.
“I didn’t know anybody or have friends
in town yet, other than this new boyfriend
who later became my husband,” Deborah
recalls. “And I just thought, ‘Wow, that
looks like an interesting way to get involved
in the community and do something nice.’”
Fast-forward to today, and Deborah,
now Deputy Aviation Director at the airport, has mentored not just one but three
homeless children through the nonprofit
agency whose ad she responded to, New
Pathways For Youth. One is a boy from
Mexico named Sergio, whom Deborah and
her husband mentor together; another, a
young woman named Marle, has been with
Deborah for 15 years––and has responded
with such enthusiasm that despite the difficulties of living in homeless shelters and
low-income housing, is now in her second
year at Arizona State University. A Native American, Marle is the first person
in her family to ever attend college. She
credits Deborah as the key to her success; Deborah says she is sure Marle
would have succeeded anyway. “I got
really lucky to have someone respond
so well to my encouragement. She is a
driven young woman.”
In addition to mentoring, Deborah
is a board member of New Pathways,
helping with fundraising and ideas. She
emcees an annual dinner and auction on
behalf of New Pathways, sponsored by
an airport business coalition; last year
the auction raised $63,000. And she has
persuaded at least 20 friends and colleagues to volunteer as mentors, partly
through dogged persistence, partly by
introducing them to Marle and Sergio:
“People see how sweet and lovely these
kids are.”
With so many years of experience
behind her, Deborah knows how rough
mentoring can sometimes be. “You walk
into a household where both parents
are drunk, you know there’s abuse, you
know there’s hunger.” And yet, she adds,
it’s well worth it: “To have a direct impact, to make a difference in the lives of
not only kids and their families, but in a
whole community––that means a lot.”
“deborah’s ability to give so much to her community is a marvel, but somehow she manages to do it with ease.”
Linda Lyman,
President,
New Pathways
For Youth
Nominated by
Linda Lyman,
President, New
Pathways For Youth
VOLUNTEER
Pam Rice
Lawrenceburg, Kentucky
“pam is an ‘on the ground’ volunteer, whose focus is scouting and then meeting the needs of children and their families.”
John Rennels, Board of Directors, Anderson County Chamber of Commerce
Nominated by
Major General
Edward W. Tonini,
Adjutant General,
Kentucky National
Guard
It’s not surprising that Pam Rice
was recently named to a list of 144 “connectors” by a United Way study of social activism in central Kentucky: after
all, she has been connecting volunteers
with the needs of children and families
in rural Anderson County for 15 years
now––ever since the night a friend invited her to come to a meeting of the
newly formed Unit 34 of the American
Legion Auxiliary.
Pam was eligible to join because her
father, Ray, served in the Navy during
the Korean War, but had known nothing of the organization till that night. Yet
she was fascinated: “I just sat in awe,
because they had just been chartered
about six months before I joined, and
they were still working out what they
could do in the community.”
Pam jumped in. Even with her management job at a button and zipper company, she had time to volunteer. Within
six months she was unit president, leading Memorial Day services for veterans
and Halloween parties and Easter Egg
hunts for children. At first the unit relied
on donations; then, seven years ago, they
got their state gambling license and began raising money through bingo nights.
Last year alone, they were able to donate
$60,000 to local and national programs
for veterans, families, and children.
The Auxiliary has funded college
scholarships, football uniforms, lighting for
ball fields, toys for sick children, and more;
it also sponsors community service projects by middle and high school students,
and card parties where elementary school
students can write holiday cards to send
to deployed military personnel overseas.
During 2007–2008, when Pam served
as president for the state Auxiliary, units
throughout Kentucky supported her project of raising more than $15,000 for the
University of Kentucky children’s hospital.
Last year, when friends of hers in the
Kentucky National Guard asked her to see
if the Auxiliary would lend its grounds for
a day honoring the children of military
families, Pam not only did so––but as executive director of the Anderson County
Chamber of Commerce, she also got local
businesses to donate food and drink. More
than 200 children attended the day. Pam
knows firsthand how much children of deployed service men and women miss their
parents; her own grandson was only two
when her son Bobby served the second of
his two tours in the Navy in Iraq.
These days, Pam serves as unit vice
president. Her most important role, she insists, is helping other volunteers come together on behalf of children and families.
“It’s not about the work I’ve done,” she
says. “It’s about the work a lot of people
have done.”
PROFESSIONAL
Kathy Watkins
San Bernardino, California
In the early 1990s, Kathy Watkins was
a program specialist for San Bernardino
County, in charge of developing courses
in “independent living skills” to teach foster youth things they’d never had a chance
to learn inside the system. Her team was
seeking input from youth themselves, and
so it was that a young man came before
them to speak about growing up in a group
home. But it was how he prefaced his remarks that Kathy still remembers: I’m turning 18 next month, and I’ll have to leave this
program. And I’m so scared. I’m not ready.
“When I heard that,” Kathy recalls, “everything came together. I said, ‘How are
we taking children away from their families, not giving them any future other than
some skill-building classes, and then telling
them at age 18 that they can go live on the
streets?”
Kathy retired last year after 30 years
with the county’s human services department, most of which she spent advocating
for policies and laws to help foster youth
escape exactly the predicament described
by the young man that day. And it is with
pride that she can point to a host of visionary changes brought about by herself, her
legislative team, and other advocates for
foster youth. Among these achievements
is a statewide database, instituted in 2004,
requiring the gathering and publication of
outcome data for children in child welfare.
The database has proved its worth many
times over––not least of which in the late
2000s, when Kathy and other advocates
used it to prove to state legislators and
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger that
it would be less expensive to co-fund a
federal law extending foster care to age
21––and along with it, education and job
training as well––than to do nothing and
guarantee the usual high rates for foster
youth of teen pregnancy, welfare, and incarceration.
An earlier effort by Kathy and her
team was just as groundbreaking: the
creation in 2000 of a kinship guardian
program, allowing relatives of youth in
foster care to become legal guardians,
but without terminating parental rights.
A safe exit could be created for a child,
out of the juvenile system and back into
a family, without the risk of alienating
parents and grandparents from each
other.
Looking back, Kathy is heartened
by the changes she and others made
possible––yet she is still not satisfied:
“Unfortunately, child welfare is still reactive. We don’t yet have a system to keep
families strong before abuse or neglect
occurs, rather than after. That’s work for
the next generation.”
“kathy has
been a beacon for many thousands of children, bringing hope for a future of endless possibilities.”
Will Lightbourne,
Director, California Department of
Social Services
Nominated by
Will Lightbourne,
Director, California
Department of Social
Services
N A N C Y D A LY A D V O C A C Y A W A R D
Jennifer Perry
The Nancy Daly Advocacy
Award is designed to honor
and memorialize the work
and dedication of a woman
who devoted much of
her life and considerable
talents to the well-being of
children at risk. Focusing
her efforts primarily in her
hometown of Los Angeles,
she reached out to hundreds
of thousands of children,
particularly those in foster
and adoptive care, and was
the inspiration for men and
women who today emulate
her work, her concern, and
her successes.
As an outspoken leader for children and youth in Southern California, Jennifer Perry consistently shifts awareness of children’s issues into the everyday consciousness of the Los Angeles community and beyond. The campaigns she develops and oversees as the executive director of the Children’s Action Network (CAN) are diverse, but
they all have one common purpose: improving the lives of at-risk young people.
The centerpiece of Jennifer’s work is ensuring loving and caring homes for the hundreds of thousands of children either in foster care or awaiting adoptive families. She
encourages widespread and universal involvement in CAN’s efforts, thereby placing her
organization at the epicenter of Hollywood’s efforts to serve children.
CAN is aptly named; it is a true network in every sense of the word. From film actors, directors, and producers to news anchors, fashion designers, and makeup artists,
everyone wants to be involved in championing Jennifer’s cause. Working with local television stations, she and her staff have created a series of short films in which foster
children waiting for adoptive homes tell their own stories. A high-profile CBS special
called A Home for the Holidays highlights adoptions occurring annually nationwide. And
the National Immunization Campaign, a partnership with the Centers for Disease Control, led to the successful effort to immunize more than 200,000 children throughout the
United States.
But Jennifer doesn’t stop there. She serves on numerous local and national boards
focused on children. And she makes time to communicate her cause on a more intimate
level. Jennifer and her husband are the parents of two children, both of whom are adopted. By writing articles and creating small online videos recounting the myriad joys
of adoption she seeks to ease the fears of prospective adoptive and foster parents and
to encourage their involvement. “A child in foster or adoptive care is just like any other
child,” she says. “They want to know where their toothbrush is and they want to come
home to the same place every day after school. They want someone to come to their
soccer games and someone to come to their graduation. It’s just important to remember
that they’re kids, and given love and support, they can blossom.”
Simply put, Jennifer Perry has followed in the footsteps of her hero, Nancy Daly, and
become the quintessential voice for children.
“a child in foster or adoptive care is just
like any other child.”
RO N A L D H . B ROW N AWA R D
Alberto M. Carvalho
As superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS), every decision Alberto M. Carvalho makes is geared towards ensuring that his students have equal
access to a high-quality public education. This is no small task: M-DCPS is the fourthlargest school system in the country, with a community of over 400,000 students, 50,000
plus employees, and an annual budget of nearly $4.3 billion to oversee.
Since becoming superintendent in 2008, Alberto has worked relentlessly to improve the quality of education in Miami-Dade County, a district that serves students
from predominately poor Latino communities. In the face of the national financial crisis beginning in 2007, he restructured his nearly bankrupt district’s fiscal operations
through renegotiating contracts and insisting on transparency in budgeting. As a result,
M-DCPS’ reserve rose from $4 to $141 million, and not a single teacher was fired or
elective course cut due to economic concerns. A secure financial situation allowed for
renewed focus on the classroom, and nearly every school in the M-DCPS system improved its performance, with some improving from F to A level. The total number of F
high schools went from thirteen to zero, and 70 percent of all schools earned an A or B.
In 2011, M-DCPS posted its highest high school graduation rate in history, and recently
the district won the prestigious 2012 Broad Prize for Urban Education, an award that
honors urban school districts raising student achievement.
Alberto recognizes that constant innovation is essential in a district with youth facing daily exposure to prejudices that negatively impact their education. As such, he
works to incorporate new technologies that help level the playing field by individualizing
the learning process. New programs such as “Links to Learning” use software to provide
24/7 individualized schooling that takes each student’s individual proficiency level into
account. The migration of print to digital content also allows for increased access, helping to create an environment of constant learning. By employing new technologies to
his students’ advantage, Alberto is championing a process of educational equality.
In addition to his duties as superintendent, Alberto is the president of the Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents, and the principal of a new primary
learning center and iPrep Academy, a high school that heavily incorporates digital technology. He is also a big supporter of KAPOW, the National Child Labor Committee’s elementary and business partnership program. Alberto’s remarkable work to create equal
access to high-quality education makes him an ideal Ronald H. Brown Award recipient.
by employing new
technologies
to his students’
advantage,
alberto is
championing
a process of
educational
equality.
N E W G E N E R AT I O N AWA R D
Shivani Alamo
The New Generation
Award is designed to
celebrate the work being
done on behalf of youth
and young people and to
encourage other young
people to become involved
in service to children at
risk. The inaugural award
is being given this year to a
remarkable young woman
who has spent the better
part of the last five years
working to improve the lives
of children and youth in the
Tampa Bay/St. Petersburg,
Florida community.
For many people, youth is a time to focus exclusively on personal goals and dreams,
but Shivani Alamo has been driven to do much more than that. Since moving to Florida
five years ago to attend college and law school, she has spent hundreds of hours outside
her studies to help young people in the Tampa Bay area learn the core values of diversity, inclusion, and engagement––and at the same time acquire the skills and confidence
they need to become tomorrow’s leaders.
Shivani has concentrated most of her volunteer time with Community Tampa Bay,
or CTB, a nonprofit based in St. Petersburg. CTB’s mission is to promote social responsibility by helping individuals become agents of change in their communities; as part
of this mission, it holds workshops for teens to help them become sensitive to social
issues such as discrimination, marginalization, and exclusion. Shivani began volunteering regularly with CTB after arriving at college in 2007. And in 2010, after getting her
bachelor’s degree in international relations and economics, she committed to a full year
of volunteer service for CTB as an AmeriCorps VISTA member.
Shivani became heavily involved as a facilitator of one of CTB’s cornerstone programs, ANYTOWN, a five-day residential program emphasizing youth leadership and
diversity education. She then spearheaded the development of FLY, or Facilitating the
Leadership of Youth, a follow-up initiative to ANYTOWN. Sponsored by the Rays Baseball Foundation, FLY offers weekly meetings for marginalized or at-risk teens to discuss
issues such as sexism, racism, and stereotyping. By helping youth confront these issues
in a supportive environment, FLY aims to create more inclusive schools and communities as participants move their newly-cultivated skills beyond CTB.
Now a second-year law student at Stetson University College of Law, Shivani spends
most of her time poring over legal texts. Still, she continues to make room in her schedule for the young people of the Tampa Bay area by attending weekly FLY meetings and
advising ANYTOWN during the summer. If this weren’t enough, she also volunteers as
a guardian ad litem and provides in-school mentoring with Big Brothers Big Sisters. She
has helped nurture over 1,000 young leaders since 2007, and intends to continue in this
direction through a career in education law and reform.
Give young people the tools they need to have faith in themselves, Shivani believes,
and we will give rise to many new generations of insightful, inclusive leaders.
PREVIOUS LEWIS HINE AWARD
RECIPIENTS
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LEWIS HINE AWARD
CHAIRS
maria r. morris
Executive Vice President,
MetLife, Inc.
william j. mullaney
President, U.S. Business,
MetLife, Inc.
tracey brown james
Partner,
The Cochran Firm
JOHN W. LEE II
Chairman,
Ready To Learn Partnership
ANNE M. MULCAHY
Chairman & CEO,
Xerox Corporation
C. ROBERT HENRIKSON
President & COO,
MetLife, Inc.
Hugh B. Price
Senior Advisor,
Piper Rudnick
Deval L. Patrick
Executive Vice President &
General Counsel,
The Coca-Cola Company
Frank A. Bennack, Jr.
President & CEO,
The Hearst Corporation
John Eyler
Chairman & CEO,
F•A•O Schwarz
Carol Parry
Executive Vice President,
Chase Manhattan Bank
Harry P. Kamen
Chairman & CEO,
Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company
Paul A. Allaire
Chairman & CEO,
Xerox Corporation
J. Robert Carey
President,
NFL Properties, Inc.
John J. Creedon
President & CEO,
Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company
David T. Kearns
Chairman & CEO,
Xerox Corporation
John F. McGillicuddy
Chairman & CEO,
Chemical Banking Corporation
J. Richard Munro
Co-Chairman & Co-CEO,
Time Warner, Inc.
Hicks B. Waldron
Chairman,
Avon Products, Inc.
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LEWIS HINE AWARD
RECIPIENTS
1985-2012 Professionals
Sherilyn Adams
San Francisco, California
Nominator: Larkin St. Youth
Services
Frank Andrews
Cross Lanes, West Virginia
Nominator: West Virginia
Department of Education
P R E V I O U S L E W I S H I N E AWA R D R E C I P I E N T S
Mary Gross Ashby
Pullman, Washington
Nominator: United Way
Augustine “Chris” Baca
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Nominator: New Mexico
Department of ChildrenYouth-Families
Willie L. Battle
Brooklyn, New York
Nominator: The Robin Hood
Foundation
JASMIN BENAB
Washington, DC
Nominator: Latin American
Youth Center
Anthony J. Bibbo
Newton, Massachusetts
Nominator: Mayor of Newton
Rebecca Black
Portland, Oregon
Nominator: Mayor of Portland
JACK BRENNAN
Newburgh, New York
Nominator: Family Focus
Adoption Services
Roosevelt Chin
Louisville, Kentucky
Nominator: The Cabbage
Patch Settlement House, Inc.
C. Robin Britt, Sr.
Greensboro, North Carolina
Nominator: Governor of North
Carolina & Mayor of High
Point
lester claravall
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Nominator: Garvin, Agee,
Carlton & Mashburn, P.C.
Geri Ann Brooks, Ph.D.
Petaluma, California
Nominator: Silicon
Engineering, Inc.
Donna Brown
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nominator: Eastern
Pennsylvania Organizing
Project
Robert Bruesch
Rosemead, California
Nominator: Mayor of
Rosemead
HELEN FOX
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Nominator: Mayor of
Albuquerque
CECILY COLEMAN
Albany, New York
Nominator: Prison Families of
New York
Mary Frost
Olympia, Washington
Nominator: Governor of
Washington
Jose Colon-Rivas Hartford, Connecticut
Nominator: Mayor of Hartford
Bertha Garcia-Tucker
San Clemente, California
Nominator: Mayor of San
Clemente
William E. Cope
Denver, Colorado
Nominator: Colorado National
Bankshares, Inc.
Saundra A. Bryant
Los Angeles, California
Nominator: United Way of
Greater Los Angeles
Catherine Boes
Indianapolis, Indiana
Nominator: Visiting Nurse
Services
THOMAS “MIKE” Buzbee
New Waverly, Texas
Nominator: Gulf Coast Trades
Center
Michael Cox, Sr.
Cleveland, Ohio
Nominator: Mayor of
Cleveland
Don Crary
Little Rock, Arkansas
Arkansas
lauren book
Aventura, Florida
Nominator: SJE Concepts, Inc.
christopher byner
Boston, Massachusetts
Nominator: Boston Centers for
Youth and Families
gregory davis
Nominator: Boston Housing
Authority
Rose Marie Byron
Daytona Beach, Florida
dixie van de flier davis
Denver, Colorado
Nominator: Colorado
Department of Human
Services
Gene Bowen
Warwick, New York
Nominator: Dr. Scott
Bienenfeld
raquel castro
Worcester, Massachusetts
Nominator: Worcester
Education Collaborative
ROBERT BRANDHORST
St. Louis, Missouri
Nominator: YouthBuild USA
William C. Chandler
Montgomery, Alabama
michael duggan
Stamford, Connecticut
Connecticut
Ann Blakeney Clark
Charlotte, North Carolina
Nominator: IBM Corporation
Don Bluestone
Bronx, New York
Nominator: Ciporen Associates
JAMES PIPER BOND
Baltimore, Maryland
Nominator: Living Classrooms
Foundation
Alan DuBois
Kansas City, Missouri
Nominator: H&R Block, Inc.
teresa decrescenzo
New Haven, Connecticut
Nominator: Hill Health Center
Renee Dinkins
West Hollywood, California
Nominator: Gay and Lesbian
Adolescent Social Services
Jack Geisler
Sheridan, Wyoming
Nominator: Wyoming Girls’
School
marsha glines
Boca Raton, Florida
Nominator: Lynn University
Charlie Golden
Columbus, Georgia
Nominator: Mayor of
Columbus
Arlene Goldsmith, Ph.D.
New York, New York
Nominator: Robin Hood
Foundation
Rodney Goo
Waianae, Hawaii
Nominator: Honolulu Police
Department
Saul Goodman
Morris Plains, New Jersey
Nominator: Mayor of
Parsippany
Susan G. Gordon, M.D.
New York, New York
Nominator: National Youth
Employment Coalition
Norma Gray, Ed.D.
Huntington, West Virginia
Nominator: Governor of West
Virginia
TYRONE GREEN
Flushing, New York
Nominator: National Athletic
Neighborhood Association
Samuel Halperin, Ph.D.
Washington, DC
Nominator: Independent
Consultant, Bethesda
William Hoogterp
Newark, New Jersey
Nominator: Mayor of Newark
Janet Jarvis
Dunkirk, New York
Nominator: Dunkirk Free
Library
Ernest Jenkins
Chicago, Illinois
Illinois
Scott Jimison
Gatonia, North Carolina
Gaston County
John Johnson
Albany, New York
Nominator: NYS Office of
Children & Family Services
Lori Kaplan
Washington, DC
Nominator: American Youth
Policy Forum
Howard Knoll
Brooklyn, New York
Timothy Lane
Des Moines, Iowa
Nominator: Governor of Iowa
diane latiker
Chicago, Illinois
Nominator: Your Community
Consultants
David Lawrence, Jr.
Miami, Florida
Nominator: Mayor of Miami
connie howard leach
Riverside, California
Nominator: Mayor of Riverside
Reid Lehman
Greenville, South Carolina
Nominator: Governor of South
Carolina
Gertrud Lenzer, Ph.D.
New York, New York
Nominator: Brooklyn College,
CUNY
Robert Lipscomb
Memphis, Tennessee
Nominator: Holiday
Corporation
Sr. Paulette LoMonaco
New York, New York
Nominator: NYC Deputy
Mayor for Health and Human
Services
Mary-Jean Longley
Anchorage, Alaska
Nominator: Cook Inlet Tribal
Council
Kwame J. S. McDonald
St. Paul, Minnesota
Nominator: Lt. Governor of
Minnesota
TERESA LOVING
Chesnee, South Carolina
Nominator: SOAR. Academy
Richard McKissick
Jacksonville, Florida
Nominator: City of
Jacksonville Community
Services
allan luks
New York, New York
Nominator: Big Brothers Big
Sisters of New York City
James K. Mancke
Spartanburg, South Carolina
joe mclaughlin
New York, New York
Nominator: Center for
Alternative Sentencing and
Employment
Charles Martin, Sr.
South Bend, Indiana
robert j. mcmahon
Glen Cove, New York
Nominator: Good Shepherd
Services
Donald Mathis
Harford County, Maryland
Nominator: American Youth
Policy Forum
Bernard Melekian
Pasadena, California
Nominator: Mayor of
Pasadena
Carrie Kimbrell Melton
Decatur, Alabama
Nominator: Decatur Women’s
Club
SCOTT B. PETERSON
Washington, DC
Nominator: Colonie Police
Department
Evelyn Moore
Washington, DC
Nominator: Equitable
Corporation
Patti Penland Phelps
Glenwood Springs, Colorado
Nominator: United Way &
Superintendent of Schools
Carlos Morales
New York, New York
Robert “Pete” Phelps
Amsterdam, New York
Nominator: Mayor of
Amsterdam
Ron Mulholland
Wheeling, West Virginia
Nominator: West Virginia
Department of Catholic
Education
Ruthellen Phillips
Morgantown, West Virginia
Nominator: U.S. Senator
Richard Murphy
Washington, DC
Nominator: New York
Association for New
Americans
June Jordan O’Neal
Macon, Georgia
Nominator: Mayor of Macon
Nennaya Onyejurua
New York, New York
Nominator: Victim Services
Agency
Betty Osbourne
Birmingham, Alabama
Nominator: Sonat, Inc.
Patrick “Ozzie” Oswald
San Jacinto, California
Nominator: California Family
Life Center
ANA PAGAN
Merced, California
Nominator: Merced County
Human Services
antonio perez
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Nominator: Alderman and
Common Council President of
Milwaukee
RONNIE POWELL
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Nominator: Association for
Retarded Citizens of Anderson
County
David William Richart
Evelyn Rogers
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nominator: Rohm and Haas
terrie rose
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Nominator: Houlihan Lokey
Estelle Rubinstein
Lewiston, Maine
Nominator: Mayor of Lewiston
Ruth Rucker
Washington, DC
Nominator: Washington Post
Co.
Melvin Seo
Kailua, Hawaii
Hawaii
Teri Sheppard
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Nominator: Governor of South
Dakota
Shari Shink
Wheat Ridge, Colorado
Nominator: Mayor of Denver
Hope Silvestri
Phoenix, Arizona
Nominator: Valley National
Bank
Terry Smith
Bellevue, Washington
Nominator: Mayor of Bellevue
Robert Snodgrass, Ph.D.
Staunton, Virginia
Nominator: Executive Director,
People Places, Inc.
JOYCE SONN
St. Louis, Missouri
Nominator: YouthBuild USA
Stephen Spindler
Kendallville, Indiana
Nominator: Noble County
Community Foundation, Inc.
Barbara Carol Staggers,
M.D.
Castro Valley, California
Nominator: Mayor of Oakland
Gary Stangler
Jefferson City, Missouri
Missouri
HELENA STEPHENS
Seattle, Washington
Nominator: Mayor of
Bellevue
Yvonne Stroud
Brooklyn, New York
Nominator: Career
Opportunities
for Brooklyn Youth
Deborah Swanson
Santa Clara, California
Predetha Thomas
Rome, Georgia
Carolyn ThompsonWallace
Newark, New Jersey
Nominator: National
Association of Service &
Conservation Corps
Sue Todd
Gloucester, Massachusetts
Nominator: North Shore
United Way
Ivonnes Torres
New York, New York
Nominator: Stanley Isaacs
Neighborhood Center
Dennis M. Walcott
New York, New York
Nominator: Equitable
Corporation
R. Benjamin Wiley
Erie, Pennsylvania
Elwood L. “Coach”
Williams
Norfolk, Virginia
Nominator: Mayor of Norfolk
Faith A. Wohl
Landenberg, Pennsylvania
Nominator: DuPont
Corporation
Pamela Wong
Chesapeake, Virginia
Nominator: Mayor of
Chesapeake
JoAnne Coble Woodard
Wilson, North Carolina
Nominator: OICs of America
Alfonso Wyatt
New York, New York
Nominator: F•E•G•S
Terrence Pond Zealand
Elizabeth, New Jersey
Nominator: Mutual Benefit Life
1985-2012 VOLUNTEERS
miriam abernathy
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Nominator: Office of Youth
Alternatives
Bill Alms
Hammond, Indiana
Nominator: Mayor of
Hammond
Maria Alvarez
New York, New York
Nominator: Chase Manhattan
Bank
Majorie Bailey
Richmond, Virginia
Virginia
William Balliew
Calhoun, Georgia
darlene beale-norris
Rex, Georgia
Nominator: LADYS, Inc.
Colleen Lunsford Bevis
Tampa, Florida
Nominator: Mayor of Tampa
Cora Masters Barry
Washington, DC
Nominator: Last Word
Production, Inc.
Delores Bennett
Detroit, Michigan
Nominator: Mayor of Detroit
Jim Brewer
Topeka, Kansas
Nominator: Burlington
Northern Santa Fe Railway
Suzy Bassani
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Nominator: V. W. Steward
Lou Baum
Euless, Texas
Nominator: Mayor of Euless
James M. Bazzoli, M.D.
Marion, Ohio
Nominator: Marion Adolescent
Pregnancy Program
Michael Bennett
Washington, DC
Nominator: Potomac Electric
Connie Berry
West Palm Beach, Florida
Nominator: Migrant
Association of South Florida
hussein berry
Dearborn, Michigan
Nominator: Arab Community
Center for Economic and Social
Services
Bobbye burke
Houston, Texas
Nominator: Harris County
Department of Education
Chris & Ann Burke
North Kingston, Rhode Island
Nominator: Ruder Finn, Inc.
Gerald & Mary Ellen
Burke
Dover, Delaware
Delaware
sr. patricia caraher
Atlanta, Georgia
Nominator: The International
Community School
Donald Calvert
Nominator: The Cabbage Patch
Settlement House, Inc.
Rebecca Canning
Waco, Texas
John Cannon, D.D.S.
Davenport, Iowa
Nominator: Quality Genesis
Peggy Chambers
Long Beach, California
Nominator: Mayor of Long
Beach
Cynthia Price Cohen
New York, New York
Nominator: Brooklyn College
and CUNY
Johnny O. Cole
Nominator: Phillip Morris USA
ThomaS Connelly
Nominator: NYNEX
Lisa-Anne Furgal
Largo, Florida
Nominator: Carol Furgal
damien Horne
Nashville, Tennessee
Nominator: SOAR Academy
Lela Coons
Warwick, Rhode Island
Nominator: Mayor of Warwick
evelyn gibson
Long Beach, California
Nominator: CASA
Susan Cowley
Waco, Texas
Nominator: Mayor of Waco
Gaylan Good
Hazard, Kentucky
Nominator: Appalachian
Regional Healthcare
Richard Horne
Pittsfield, New Hampshire
Nominator: Governor of New
Hampshire
betty wade coyle
Norfolk, Virginia
Nominator: Norfolk
Interagency Consortium
Stan Curtis
Nominator: Mayor of Louisville
Nancy Daly
Los Angeles, California
Nominator: SunAmerica, Inc.
John & Pat Devries
Algona, Iowa
Nominator: Governor of Iowa
GLENN & PAT DOUGHTY
Locust Grove, Oklahoma
Nominator: Parent Child Center
of Tulsa
Emily Douglas
Powell, Ohio
Nominator: Secured
Transportation, Inc.
Ron Dukes
Rochester, New York
Nominator: Xerox Corporation
Jack Eaves
Madison, Iowa
Nominator: Fort Madison
Boxing Club
Hector Enriquez
El Paso, Texas
Leonard R. Fuller
Detroit, Michigan
Nominator: Coopers & Lybrand
vincent j. grippa iii
Pembroke Pines, Florida
Nominator: Pembroke Pines
Optimist Club
david harmon, m.d.
Bakersfield, California
Nominator: Bakersfield
Homeless Center
Chessie Harris
Huntsville, Alabama
Alabama
valene harris
Wilmington, Delaware
Nominator: Women in Need
Bobby Joe Haywood, Sr.
Columbia, Tennessee
Nominator: Union Carbide
Virginia Heise
Malden, Missouri
Nominator: Malden Chamber
of Commerce
Louise Helton
Las Vegas, Nevada
Nominator: Mayor of Las
Vegas
Sarah Herbin
Greensboro, North Carolina
Nominator: National Black
Child Development Institute
Henrietta Heyerdahl
Tifton, Georgia
Russell Holderness
Tarboro, North Carolina
Nominator: Centura Banks
ted horvath
Cleveland, Ohio
Nominator: The Eleanor B.
Rainey Memorial Institute
Barbara & Henry
Howard
Delaware
olson huff, M.D.
Asheville, North Carolina
Nominator: Mission Health
Care Foundation
Lawrence Jackson
Indianapolis, Indiana
Nominator: Wheeler Boys Club
Kevin Karpowicz
Schenectady, New York
Steve Kidd
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Nominator: Camp AmeriKids,
AmeriCares
Wayne Kishida
Honolulu, Hawaii
Nominator: Mayor of Honolulu
Carolee Koehn
Scotts Bluff, Nebraska
Nebraska
joseph lagana
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Nominator: Homeless
Children’s Education Fund
Henri Landwirth
Kissimmee, Florida
Nominator: Kmart Corporation
Jill Lederer
Thousand Oaks, California
Nominator: Mayor of Thousand
Oaks
mimi lieber
New York, New York
Nominator: Literacy Inc.
Wayne P. London, M.D.
Brattleboro, Vermont
Vermont
stacy schumaker
maciuk
Nashville, Tennessee
Nominator: Hon. Al Gore &
Mrs. Tipper Gore
frances a. macon
Anchorage, Alaska
Nominator: Juvenile Probation
Office, State of Alaska
Jean Manning
Augusta, Maine
Nominator: Maine Department
of Mental Health & Mental
Retardation
Luz R. Marti
Tifton, Georgia
Ashley Michelle
McBride
Greenville, South Carolina
Nominator: Family Counseling
Center of Greenville
Teddy McMakin
Lame Deer, Texas
Nominator: Montana
Governor’s Office
John L. Meredith
Houston, Texas
Nominator: Young Lawyer’s
Association
kyle monette
Mililani, Hawaii
Nominator: Radford High
School
AllEn Stigler
New Berlin, Wisconsin
Nominator: Mayor of New
Berlin
Monica Stratman
Cincinnati, Ohio
Nominator: Clubhouse
RUSSELL SULLIVAN
Washington, DC
Nominator: Chairman, U.S.
Senate Finance Committee
Debbie Tapp
Bradenton, Florida
Nominator: American Red
Cross, Manatee County
Chapter
mildred moore
Scotland Neck, North Carolina
Nominator: Rosa M. Williams
George Naples
Youngstown, Ohio
Nominator: General Electric
Harry G. Neill, Jr.
St. Louis, Missouri
Nominator: Carrie Campbell,
Inc.
Norman Oliver
Nominator: Mayor of
Wilmington
Chirag patel
Houston, Texas
Nominator: Johns Hopkins
University
Raymond J. Petersen
Grand Junction, Colorado
Mesa County
Bernard & Audre
Rapoport
Waco, Texas
Nominator: Michael Morrison
Charles Seymour
San Bernadino, California
Nominator: Mayor of San
Bernadino
Ida Mae Tate
Starkville, Mississippi
Mississippi
Lorraine Reed
Buffalo, New York
Nominator: Parents
Anonymous
Larry Sidebottom
Lakewood, Colorado
Nominator: Mayor of
Lakewood
Edward P. Wagner
Harleysville, Pennsylvania
Nominator: New Life & Family
Services
Al Rosenthal
Brooklyn, New York
Nominator: Career
Opportunities for Brooklyn
Youth
MARILYN SIMONDS
Auburn, Maine
Nominator: Androscoggin Head
Start and Child Care
Tammy Wallace
Dayton, Ohio
Nominator: Dream Builders
Group, Inc.
Doris & Tom Slimick
Orlando, Florida
Nominator: Martin Marietta
Electronics, Information &
Missiles
Vivian E. Washington
Baltimore, Maryland
Maryland
Thomas Royer, M.D.
Danville, Pennsylvania
Nominator: Weis Markets, Inc.
Rose Sanders
Selma, Alabama
jordyn schara
North Freedom, Wisconsin
Nominator: Krystal Schara
Nan Songer
Liverpool, New York
Nominator: Governor of New
York
Carol Doe Porter, R.N.
Houston, Texas
Nominator: Quaker Oats
Kay Schecht
Irving, Texas
Nominator: Mayor of Irving
Addrena Matthews
Squires
Madison, Wisconsin
Nominator: Madison Equal
Opportunities Commission
Freddie Barrett
Rainwater
Gulf Breeze, Florida
Nominator: Congressman Jeff
Miller
Terry Seaman
Maple Valley, Washington
Nominator: Workforce
Development Council
Virginia Stanton
Chicago, Illinois
Nominator: Neon Street Youth
Center
Joy Wilken
Sprague, Washington
Nominator: 4H Volunteer
Nathaniel Williams
Vicksburg, Mississippi
West-Central Mississippi
Eddie Wright, Sr.
Memphis, Tennessee
Nominator: Community
Foundation of Greater
Memphis
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Distinguished Service Award Recipients
Ronald H. Brown Award Recipients
ANDRÉ AGASSI | Founder, André Agassi Charitable Foundation
karen bass | California Assembly Speaker
Paul Allaire | CEO, Xerox Corporation
Harry Belafonte | Artist and Humanitarian
FRANK BENNACK, JR. | Board Chairman, The Hearst Corporation
david r. jones | CEO, Community Service Society
GEOFFREY BOISI | Chairman, Roundtable Investment Partners
EDWARD LEWIS | Co-Founder & CEO,
Essence Communications Partners
Michael Bolton | Singer
Robbie Callaway | Senior Vice President, BGCA
Larry Camerlin | Founder & President, Angel Flight
david paterson | Governor, New York State
MICHELLE paterson | First Lady, New York State
RAYMOND CHAMBERS | Chairman, Amelior Corporation
Deval L. Patrick | Executive Vice President,
The Coca-Cola Company
Hillary Rodham Clinton | Child Advocacy Leader
DIANE B. Patrick | Partner, Ropes & Gray
Joan Ganz Cooney | Founder, Children’s Television Workshop
Hugh B. Price | President & CEO, National Urban League
Evan Dobelle | President, Trinity College
PETER EDELMAN | Professor, Georgetown Law
LISA QUIROZ | Senior Vice President of Corporate Responsibility,
Time Warner
John Eyler | CEO, F•A•O Schwarz
Jorge Ramos | Univision Television Network
darell hammond | CEO, KaBoom!
DENNIS M. WALCOTT | Deputy Mayor, New York City
JIM HUBBARD | Creative Director, Venice Arts: In Neighborhoods
Oprah Winfrey | Entertainer and Business Executive
marley kaplan | CEO, Chess in the Schools
Raul Yzaguirre | President, National Council of La Raza
David T. Kearns | CEO (Retired), Xerox Corporation
James L. Ketelsen | Founder, Project Grad
ANN M. MARCHETTI | VP, National Initiative for Children’s
Healthcare Quality
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David T. Kearns Award for Excellence
and Innovation in Education Recipients
McDonald’s Corp. | Ronald McDonald House Charities
JOHN McIVOR | Executive Director, Summer On the Hill
J. Richard Munro | Co-Chairman, Time-Warner
vincent a. mai | Chairman, The Sesame Workshop
j. clifford hudson | CEO, SONIC
Susan Saint James | Actor
Charles Schulz | Cartoonist
stephen h. spahn | Headmaster & Chancellor,
The Dwight School
William Steere | CEO, Pfizer Corporation
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nancy daly advocacy award RECIPIENT
FR. Gregory boyle | Executive Director, Homeboy Industries
LAURIE TISCH | Founder, Center for Arts Education
JANICE WEINMAN | President, Kids in Distressed Situations
elaine wynn | Philanthropist
The National Child Labor Committee
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TEL (212) 840-1801 | FAX (212) 768-0963
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