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In 2000, Angelica Salas won a BRICK Award for her work as the Executive Director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles, CA. A Mexican immigrant who came to the United States at age four with her teenage aunt and uncle to reunite with her parents, Angelica leads a multi-ethnic coalition that advocates for the human and civil rights of immigrants and refugees in Los Angeles, helping increase naturalization rates by 400%.
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Kikanza Ramsey co-founded and worked as a Lead Organizer for the Bus Riders Union in Los Angeles, CA. The Bus Riders Union has negotiated lower bus fares, the purchase of new clean-fuel buses to reduce overcrowding, and a dramatic expansion of bus routes for 350,000 daily bus riders from low-income neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Kikanza won a BRICK Award in 1998.
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Aqeela Sherrills won a 1997 BRICK Award for his work as an executive director of the Amer-I-Can Foundation, which leads life-skills and self-esteem workshops for young people and aims to end gang violence in Los Angeles.
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Alise Salinas acted as the director of housing and public policy for the Esperanza Community Housing Corporation in South Central, Los Angeles. While there, she helped to develop housing for low-income communities. She won a BRICK Award in 1997.
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K.S. Park served as a general counsel for the Los Angeles-based Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates, which provides legal services, educational workshops, and advocacy for low-wage workers in Koreatown.
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1997 BRICK Award winner Guy Torres founded and served as the executive director of the East Los Angeles Youth Leadership Council (ELAYLC), which helps young people lead more positive lives through leadership and civic responsibilities, workshops, and projects.
