by Kathleen | Mar 13, 2018 | 2018 Honorees
Brooklyn Movement Center (BMC) is a Black-led, membership-based organization of primarily low- to moderate-income Central Brooklyn residents. They have built power and supported self-determination for the residents of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights by nurturing...
by Kathleen | Mar 13, 2018 | 2018 Honorees
Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson is a community of New Yorkers taking action on issues that directly affect their lives. At the forefront of utility justice, they ran a multi-year campaign pressuring the New York Public Service Commission to investigate and change the...
by Kofo Anifalaje | Mar 8, 2018 | 2018 Honorees
Cristina is the co-founder and the executive director of United We Dream (UWD), an organization that created a space where immigrant young people are fighting for dignity and justice for all immigrants. Through her leadership, Cristina has focused on leveraging the...
by Kofo Anifalaje | Mar 8, 2018 | 2018 Honorees
Héctor grew up as the child of union members and started his first job at a union in 1990. By 2012 he was elected to the role of President of SEIU 32BJ, which is now representing over 163,000 property service workers. Under Héctor’s leadership, the union has gained...
by Kofo Anifalaje | Mar 8, 2018 | 2018 Honorees
Stephen Adly Guirgis is a playwright, producer and actor whose plays and creative projects center themes of racism, poverty and imprisonment. His plays include Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, The Motherfucker with the Hat, and Between Riverside and Crazy, for which he won...
