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Social Justice Awards Past Winners

2021

• Dartmouth News

Emerging Leadership: Allie Young '13, Director at Protect the Sacred

Holly Fell Sateia Award: Vincent Wilson, Assistant Director of Individual and Class Giving; Diversity and Inclusion Advisor for Dartmouth Athletics

Ongoing Commitment: Alex Bernadotte '92, Founder and CEO, Beyond 12 

Lifetime Achivement: Dr. Matias Vega MED '78, Medical Director of Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless, Health Equity Advocate

Student Group: Access Dartmouth

2020

• Dartmouth News: Dartmouth Presents Four Social Justice Awards
• 2020 Conversations with ChangeMakers: Social Justice Awards Ceremony video

Emerging Leadership: Angela Zhang '12, programs director at LISTEN Community Services

Holly Fell Sateia Award: Derrick White, former visiting associate professor of history and of African and African American studies and director of inclusion and academic engagement in Dartmouth's athletics department

Ongoing Commitment: Rachel Solotaroff MED '01, MD, MCR, President and CEO of Central City Concern

Lester B. Granger '18 Award for Lifetime Achievement: Bruce Fredrickson '73, founding member of the law firm Webster & Fredrickson, PLLC

 

2019

Ongoing Commitment

Michelle Duster '85, Author, Speaker & Educator

Lifetime Achievement

Ray Blackwell '80, MED '87, Chief of Cardiac Surgery and Surgical Director of the Mechanical Circulatory Support Program at Christiana Care Health Services

Holly Fell Sateia Award

Bruce Duthu '80, Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies

Lester B. Granger Award for Lifetime Achievement

Dartmouth Class of 1959, In recognition of the impact of the '59 class project, Dartmouth Partners in Community Service (DPCS)

2018

Lifetime Achievement

Dr. Deborah King, Professor of Sociology

Alpha Kappa Alpha, Xi Lambda Chapter strives to provide a space on campus that uplifts students, challenges the status quo, and sheds light on local, national, and international injustice.

Holly Fell Sateia Award

Dia Draper, educator, coach and entrepreneur. 

Lester B. Granger ’18 Award for Lifetime Achievement

Dr. Pat Terenzini, educator focused on the effects of the college experience on students’ cognitive and psychosocial development, persistence, and educational attainment.

2017

Student Organization 

Divest Dartmouth, Organization of students and community members working on issues involving climate change and global warming. 

Holly Fell Sateia Award

Shawn O’Leary, Director of the Office for Diversity and Community Engagement at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Ongoing Commitment

Rebecca Holcombe, Secretary of Education in the State of Vermont

Lifetime Achievement

Leonard Greenhalgh, PhD, Professor of Management at Tuck; Director, Programs for Minority- and Women-Owned Businesses; Director, Native American Business Programs

Lester B. Granger ’18 Award for Lifetime Achievement

Kevin Curnin ’86, Partner, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, New York; Founding Director of Stroock’s Public Service Project

2016

Lifetime Achievement

Ashley Bryan, Professor Emeritus of Studio Art and Award Winning Children's Book Author and Illustrator created children's books to bring the oral traditions of Africa to life. 

Ongoing Commitment

Nancy Bloomfield ’99, Co-founder of Cover Home Repair and Executive Director of The Family Place, Nancy has committed herself to serving the Upper Valley community. 

Emerging Leadership

David Gordon ’00, Founder and Director for Collaboration for Locally-Driven Improvement in Pediatrics.  His work focuses on quality improvement initiatives that improve outcomes among children in resource-limited hospitals.

Student Group

Urban Health Scholars is a Geisel student group whose mission is to train medical students interested in serving medically underserved populations in urban settings. 

Holly Fell Sateia Award

Keiselim “Keysi” Montás , Associate Director of the Department of Safety and Security, involved in many aspects of diversity, race relations and cultural and social justice both on campus and off. 

Lester B. Granger ’18 Award for Lifetime Achievement

Christopher Keating ’86, Executive Director of the Judicial Council, Public Defenders Office of New Hampshire, working to sustain and improve indigent defense in rural New Hampshire. 

2015

Lifetime Achievement

Constance Clery, Founder, Clery Center for Security on Campus and leadership in passage of 28 state and 6 federal laws, including the Jeanne Clery Act, designed to improve campus safety.

Ongoing Commitment

Frank Venegas, Jr., Founder, Ideal Group. Commitment to community service, access to education, stabilizing neighborhoods, and providing opportunities to youth and families in Southwest Detroit.

Student Group

Co-Fired, Advocacy group for human rights and equal legal and social treatment of undocumented immigrants.

Holly Fell Sateia Award

Gabrielle Lucke, Vermont State Representative, Dartmouth College. Commitment to diversity and social justice at Dartmouth and in her community.

Lester B. Granger ’18 Award for Lifetime Achievement

Richard Joseph ’65, Academic scholarship, policy analysis and program action in democratic and peace building initiatives in Africa.

2014 

Lifetime Achievement

Andrew Wells III, Innovator, educator and job creator working with disadvantaged Native Americans.

Ongoing Commitment

Kirsten Gillibrand ’88, NY Senator and proponent of LGBT rights, worked to repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell and support of victims of sexual assault in the military.

Emerging Leadership 

Lia Carnie Monahon ’98, Attorney fighting for prisoners rights and protecting juveniles sentenced to life without parole.

Holly Fell Sateia Award

Christine Crabb ’90, Continuous commitment to building Dartmouth's MLK and Social Justice Celebrations.

Lester B. Granger ’18 Award for Lifetime Achievement

Martin Cetron ’81, Advocate on behalf of refugees and combat foreign and domestic health disparities.

2013

Lifetime Achievement

The Barnet Family: William Barnet II’34, Mary Barnet, William Barnet III’64,Tu’65, Laurence Barnet ’68, Carol Barnet Fuchs P’90.  Commitment to proving disadvantaged youth with access to education.

Ongoing Commitment

Steven Cosson ’90, Artistic Director, The Civilians. Uses theatre as a means to explore and raise consciousness about social issues

Student Group

Dartmouth Graduate Veterans Association, Works to unite, mobilize and advocate for veterans in Dartmouth's Graduate Studies Programs.

Holly Fell Sateia Award

Joseph F. O'Donnell, MED’71; For his work addressing health disparities, preparing students as advocates for health, and using education to help reshape our health care system.

Lester B. Granger ’18 Award for Lifetime Achievement

Karen GJ Lewis ’74, NBCT, President, Chicago Teachers Union. The CTU advances and promotes high quality public education to improve teaching and learning conditions.

2012

Ongoing Commitment

Chidi C. Achebe DMS’96, President & CEO, Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center

Emerging Leadership 

Rebecca M Heller ’05, Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project; provides direct legal aid to refugees overseas.

Jessica R. Lawson ’04, Co-founder & Assoc. Dir., Mariposa DR Foundation, working with women/girls in Dominican Republic

Student Group

Students for Africa, Raise awareness about economic and political issues affecting the African Continent.

Lester B. Granger ’18 Award for Lifetime Achievement

Michael W. Mascari ’65, Executive Director, AHRC Nassau & Affiliates, Working with persons with developmental disabilities

2011

Lifetime Achievement and Service

Holly Fell Sateia MALS’82, Vice President for Institutional Diversity and Equity, Emerita, Dartmouth College

Ongoing Commitment

Gregorio A. Millett ’90, Senior Policy Advisor, Office of National AIDS Policy, Domestic Policy Council, The White House, Senior Scientist, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Michael Dorsey, Asst. Professor, Environmental Studies Program, and Director, Climate Justice Research Project, Dartmouth College, Visiting Scholar at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies' Climate Change Initiative

Student Group

Dartmouth Chapter of Habitat for Humanity

Lester B. Granger ’18 Award for Lifetime Achievement

Jan R. Tarjan ’74, Former Senior Program Officer for Local Service, Tucker Foundation, Dartmouth College 

2010

Ongoing Commitment

Cathleen D. Caron ’92, Founder and Executive Director,Global Workers Justice Alliance; Lawyer

Emerging Leadership 

Methembe Ndlovu ’97, Co-founder and Zimbabwe Program Director, Grassroot Soccer (HIV/AIDS prevention)

Student Group

*Dartmouth Medical School Chapter of Physicians for Human Rights

Lester B. Granger ’18 Award for Lifetime Achievement

Peter H. Kilmarx ’83, DMS’90, Chief, Epidemiology Branch, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

 *Now Geisel School of Medicine

2009

Ongoing Commitment

Ricki Stern ’87, Filmmaker: The End of America; The Devil Came on Horseback; The Trials of Darryl Hunt (genocide/ Darfur; incarceration); Founder of BreakThru Films

Emerging Leadership 

Dr. Milton Ochieng ’04 and Frederick Ochieng ’05, founders of the Lwala Health Clinic in Kenya and of the Lwala Community Alliance

Student Group

DREAM (Directing through Recreation, Education, Adventure, and Mentoring), Dartmouth chapter, a student-led mentoring organization that matches Dartmouth College students with youth from disadvantaged neighborhoods

Lester B. Granger ’18 Award for Lifetime Achievement

Kul Chandra Gautam ’72, Former Assistant Secretary-General, United Nations, and Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF

 

2008

Ongoing Commitment

Allison Barlow ’86, Native Public Health

Emerging Leadership

Renai Rodney ’99, Law, Mentoring project

Anne Sosin ’02, Haiti violence against women, human rights

Student Group

Dartmouth Ends Hunger

MEDLIFE

Lester B. Granger ’18 Award for Lifetime Achievement

Stephen Atwood ’68, DMS’70, Public Health/Asia

2007

Ongoing Commitment

James Butterworth TU’91, Film, Seoul Train

Emerging Leadership 

Paul Holzer ’00, Latin American Youth/education

Student Group

Mascoma Clinic, Group run by DMS* students, provides free healthcare to underserved residents of Enfield, Canaan and other NH towns. 

Lester B. Granger ’18 Award for Lifetime Achievement

Karen Kramer Hein DMS’68, HIV/AIDs prevention/adolescents, tsunami relief, refugee camps

Thomas Wahman ’60, Voting rights, Civil rights program developer

*Now Geisel School of Medicine

2006

Ongoing Commitment

Thokozani  Xaba ’89, Redeveloping South Africa (poverty, HIV/AIDS, Youth)

Matthew Wilson ’83, Nuclear policy, Toxics Action Center, Grassroots Campaigns, Inc.

Emerging Leadership 

Meleia Willis-Starbuck ’07, Multiculturalism and child advocacy, Awarded posthumously

Student Groups

Darfur Action Group

Engineers Without Borders

Outdoor Leadership Experience

Lester B. Granger ’18 Award for Lifetime Achievement

Nick Kotz ’55, Journalism: worker safety, war on poverty, civil rights era, war and peace, hunger, unions

Grace Paley, Author, antiwar, feminist, antinuclear, Dartmouth Honorary Degree Recipient 1998

2005

Lifetime Achievement

William Sloane Coffin, Civil Rights activist, hunger, anti-war, disarmament, homelessness, poverty

Ongoing Commitment

Jeffrey Swartz TU’84, Business and service/City Year

Emerging Leadership 

Jennifer Rottman ’02, hunger and homelessness

ThomasClark’92, DMS’01, Grassroot Soccer; Public Health; HIV/AIDS; Africa

Student Group

Girls Mentoring - DMS* Community Service Committee 

Lester B. Granger ’18 Award for Lifetime Achievement**

David Shipler ’64, Journalist: race, class, group identity, foreign affairs, working poor

Trudell Guerue Jr. ’74, Legal Rights Center

*Now Geisel School of Medicine

**2005 was the first year the Granger Award was incorporated into the Social Justice Awards

2004

Lifetime Achievement

Jonathan Moore ’54, P’87, US Ambassador to the UN and rep to its Economic and Social Council; humanitarian relief, human rights, refugees, development, environmental issues

Ongoing Commitment

Juan Cartagena ’78, Voting rights, civil rights lawyer

Douglas Tyson ’81, Public charter school

Emerging Leadership 

Joyce Sackey-Acheampong ’85, DMS’89, Public Health; HIV/AIDS; Africa

 

2003

Lifetime Achievement

Joan & Allen Bildner ’47, TU’48, Human and intergroup relations, diversity on college campuses, Bildner Endowment to develop diversity programming, Bildner Urban Summer Program, New Jersey Campus Diversity Initiative

James Nachtwey ’70, War photographer

Ongoing Commitment

Kathleen Allden, Medical Director, International Survivors Center; torture victims, human rights abuses, refugees, asylum seekers

Kimberley Porteus ’88, Africa—education, health policy, liberation and democrative grassroots orgs, marginalized children, poverty, education, violence

Emerging Leadership 

Mattie Richardson ’91, Writer and activist: racism, homophobia, sexism, Native American sovereignty, sexual assault, South Africa, campuses, lesbians of color

2002

Lifetime Achievement

James Strickler ’50, DMS’51, Medicine

John Topping ’64, Environment

Ongoing Commitment

Beth Robinson ’86, Lawyer, VT Civil Unions

Emerging Leadership 

Miranda Johnson ’97, Staff Attorney, Advocates for Children of New York; Consultant at United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF);