Social Justice Awards
The Martin Luther King Jr. Social Justice Awards honor members of the
Dartmouth and Upper Valley community who have contributed significantly to
social justice, peace, civil rights, education, public health, or environmental
justice. Those eligible for the awards include Dartmouth, DMS, Thayer, Tuck,
and A&S students, graduate students, alumni, faculty, employees, and
friends who have contributed significantly to peace, civil rights, education,
public health, environmental justice or social justice. A separate category
honors student and graduate student groups.
Social Justice Awards online nomination form
2007 Social Justice Award Recipients
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bios
The 2007 Social Justice Awards Ceremony will take place on
Friday, January 26 at 5 pm in Collis Common Ground.
Thomas W. Wahman ’60 is the founder and president of the internationally
oriented Resources Development Foundation.
Karen Kramer Hein DMS’68 is former president of the William T. Grant
Foundation and founder of the United States’ first comprehensive adolescent
HIV/AIDS program.
Jim Butterworth Tu’91 is founder and principal of Incite Productions. He
produced and directed Incite’s debut film, Seoul Train, which has won
more than a dozen major awards and inspired countless grassroots and
policy-level actions worldwide.
Paul D. Holzer ’00 is Director of Higher Education at the Latin American
Youth Center in Washington, D.C., where he oversees four college preparation
programs that serve at risk minority youth.
Student Group:
The Mascoma Clinic provides free medical care to underserved residents of
Enfield, Canaan, and other New Hampshire towns. It is run by Dartmouth Medical
School students and sponsored by the Good Neighbor Health Clinic.
Special Recognition:
SEAD (Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth) expands educational opportunities for
high school students from under-resourced urban and rural schools while
offering the Dartmouth community a unique opportunity for service learning.
2006 Social Justice Award Recipients
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Meleia Willis-Starbuck '07 (to be awarded posthumously)
Former Intern, Women's Daytime Drop-In Center, Berkeley, CA, and mentor to
Upper Valley children through the Dartmouth Alliance for Children of Color
Thokozani Xaba '89
Programme Director, Community Development Programme, School of Social Work and
Community Development, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and
co-founder, McIntoshXaba and Associates
Matthew Wilson '83
National Field Director, Grassroots Campaigns Inc., and founder, Toxics Action
Center
Nick Kotz '55
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Let Them Eat Promises: The
Politics of Hunger in America and Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin
Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Changed America
Grace Paley '98H
Acclaimed author of The Little Disturbances of Man, Enormous Changes at the
Last Minute, and Later the Same Day and activist in antiwar, antinuclear, and
feminist movements
Darfur Action Group
Engineers Without Borders
Outdoor Leadership Experience
2005 Social Justice Award Recipients
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William Sloane Coffin, Lifetime Achievement Award (Chaplain
Emeritus, Yale University; Pastor Emeritus, Riverside Church, NYC)
David K. Shipler ’64, Lester
Granger '18 Award (Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author; Former Foreign
Correspondent of The New York Times; Trustee Emeritus of Dartmouth College)
Trudell H. Guerue, Jr. ’74, Lester Granger '18 Award (Attorney,
Legal Rights Center, Hennepin County, Minnesota)
Jeffrey B. Swartz TU’84, Ongoing Commitment Award (President and
Chief Executive Officer, The Timberland Company)
Thomas S. Clark ’92, DMS’01, Emerging Leadership Award (Research
Fellow, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California at San
Francisco; Founder and CEO of Grassroot Soccer)
Jennifer A. Rottmann ’02, Emerging Leadership Award (Operations
Coordinator, Community Voting Project, Center for Community Change, Washington,
D.C.)
2004 Social Justice Award Recipients
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Jonathan Moore '54 Parent '81, Lifetime Achievement Award (Senior
Advisor to the United Nations Development Programme; Former Director, Kennedy
Institute of Politics, Harvard University; and Former U.S. Coordinator for
Refugees and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations)
Juan Cartagena '78, Ongoing Commitment Award (General Counsel,
Community Service Society, New York City)
Douglas Tyson '81, Ongoing Commitment Award (Principal, Thurgood
Marshall Academy Public Charter High School, Washington, D.C.)
Joyce Sackey-Acheampong '85, DMS '89, Emerging Leadership Award
(Asst. Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Co-founder, Foundation
for African Relief; and Director, AIDS Collaborative Project, Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center)
2003 Social Justice Award Recipients
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Kathleen Allden,Ongoing Commitment Award (Assistant Professor of
Psychiatry/Clinician/Director of the International Survivors Center)
Joan L. Bildner and Allen I. Bildner '47, TU'48, Lifetime Achievement
Award (Diversity Activists)
James A. Nachtwey '70, Lifetime Achievement Award (War
Photographer)
Kimberley A. Porteus '88, Ongoing Commitment Award (Researcher for
Values in Education Project, South Africa)
Mattie U. Richardson '91, Emerging Leadership Award (Writer and
activist against racism, homophobia, and sexism)
2002 Social Justice Award Recipients
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Miranda Johnson '97, Emerging Leadership Award
Beth Robinson '86, Ongoing Commitment Award
Dr. James C. Strickler '50, DMS '51, Lifetime Achievement Award
John C. Topping, Jr. '64, Lifetime Achievement Award
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