2017 JFREJ Awards Nominees

-Bina Ahmad

-Brad Lander

-Constance Malcolm/Justice Committee/Mothers of the Movement

-Glenn E. Martin

-Group of JFREJers who kept the org afloat

-Harvey Fierstein

-JustLeadershipUSA

-Linda Sarsour

Mahoma Lopez, Co-director of LWC or Rosanna as co-EDs

-Michael Skolnik

-Rabbi Ellen Lippmann

-Rebecca Vilkommerson

-Rev. William Barber

-Roksana Mun, Director of Strategy and Training at DRUM

-Sally Yates

-Susie Day

-Tarso Ramos/ Jean Hardesty in memoriam/PRA

-We Dream in Black

Past Honorees

1995

Henry Schwarzschild (z”l)

1996

Sam Wallach and the Teacher’s Union

The Chinese Staff & Worker’s Association

1997

Allen Ginsberg (z”l)

Judith Malina (z”l)

1998

Martin S. Needleman

Southside Fair Housing Committee

1999

Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, Jr. (z”l)

Dr. Sandi Cooper

Edith Everett

Welfare Rights Initiative

2000

Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

Donna Nevel

2002

Dr. Alan Berkman (z”l)

The Innocence Project

Robert Meerpol

Susan Rosenberg

Laura Whitehorn

Youth Force

2003

Domestic Workers United

DRUM: Desis Rising Up and Moving

Adam Shapiro and the Shapiro Family

Henry Foner (z”l)

Annette Rubenstein (z”l)

2004

Tami Gold

Juan Gonzalez

Amy Goodman

Naomi Klein

Richie Perez (z”l)

Art Spiegelman

2005

Audre Lorde Project

Jessie Cagan (z”l) & Leslie Cagan

Rev. James Alexander Forbes

Seymour Melman (z”l)

Michael Ratner (z”l)

2006

Tony Kushner

Grace Paley (z”l)

The Members of Transport Workers Union Local 100

2007

New York AIDS Housing Network

Frances Goldin

Adrienne Rich (z”l)

Debbie Almontaser

2008

Ann Cook

Families for Freedom

Deborah Meier

Mikey Weinstein

2009

Picture the Homeless

David Rothenberg

Himmelstein McConnell Gribben Donoghue & Joseph

2010

Si Kahn

Adrienne Cooper (z”l)

Stephen Said

2011

Jose Antonio Vargas

United We Dream

Freedom Riders Reverend C.T. Vivian and Joan Pleune

2012

Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

ACT UP

Eric Ward

2013

Rinku Sen

Alan Levine

Communities United for Police Reform

2014

Debby King

Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum

Andrea Ritchie and Streetwise & Safe

2015 - 25th Anniversary

Cynthia Greenberg

Jenny Romaine

BLM Founders Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, Patrisse Cullors

2016

CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities

Deepa Iyer

Yavilah McCoy