Photographs
Far left: Dorothy Allison (third from left) and students following Allison's 2005 Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration keynote address. Photo by Joseph Mehling, College Photographer. Center: Members of AXIS Dance Company, a mixed-ability dance troupe, performing at the Hopkins Center as part of a Hopkins Center campus residency cosponsored by IDE. Photo by Jack Rowell. Right: Discussions at a Diversity Forum hosted by IDE. Photo by The Dartmouth.
Artwork
Detail from mural produced by Ernesto Cuevas and Dartmouth students as part of Encuentro Latino, a 2005 Summer Arts Festival coordinated by the Leslie Center for the Humanities.
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
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.
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
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.)
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)
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)
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
