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Submitted by BRICK Winner on Thu, 08/31/2006 - 19:06.
In 2005, Katherine Chon won a BRICK Award for her advocacy work against sex trafficking. Partnering with a friend, Katherine established the Washington, D.C.-based Polaris Project to combat modern-day slavery. She has organized the Congressional Briefing on Sex Trafficking in the US, created a sex trafficking curriculum, and trained over 80 community leaders.
Submitted by BRICK Winner on Sat, 08/26/2006 - 22:40.
2000 BRICK Award winner Heather Barr worked as a Staff Attorney at the Urban Justice Center in New York City. A formerly homeless teen, Heather wrote a definitive report on the incarceration of people with mental illness, filed a successful lawsuit to compel New York City to provide discharge planning for 30,000 inmates with mental illness each year. She also co-founded the Nathaniel Project, the nation’s first alternative to incarceration program for felony offenders with serious mental illness.
Submitted by BRICK Winner on Sat, 08/26/2006 - 22:28.
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%.
Submitted by BRICK Winner on Sat, 08/26/2006 - 22:27.
Lucas Benitez won a BRICK Award in 1999 for his work as Co-Director of The Coalition of Immokalee Workers in Immokalee, FL. By educating and organizing fellow migrant workers, Lucas helped secure the first wage increase for tomato pickers in 20 years, exposed and stopped two slavery rings and launched a labor action rights program that collected nearly $100,000 in back wages.
Submitted by BRICK Winner on Sat, 08/26/2006 - 22:05.
John Farnam won a 1998 BRICK Award for his work as the Director of the Northern Colorado AIDS Project (NCAP) in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Submitted by BRICK Winner on Sat, 08/26/2006 - 21:57.
Matthew McDermott served as a Policy Specialist for the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless (CCH), Chicago, IL. The CCH works to expand affordable housing, protect human rights, and increase the political power of homeless people. Matt’s efforts lead to the preservation of 1,000 units, the creation of 380 single room housing units with social services on site, and the adoption of a policy for a 20% affordable housing set aside in all city housing expenditures. He won a BRICK Award in 1998.
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