Dr. Walker was nominated for her work related to motherhood, mental health, post-partum depressions and for her website where she has created a community for mothers “to speak their truths in a non judgmental, supportive, creative community. We need the wisdom and support of others to unpack stigma of mental difference in motherhood.”
For more info: http://www.stigmama.com
Nominated for: a founding member of the non-violent anti-Nazi resistance group The White Rose, which advocated for active resistance to Hitler’s regime through an anonymous leaflet and graffiti campaign. In February of 1943, she and other members were arrested for handing out leaflets at the University of Munich and sentenced to death by guillotine.
For more information: http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/revolt/scholl.html
Nominated for: helping impoverished girls across the world have their own, customized, pretty dresses. She has made over 1000 dresses for the non-profit Little Dresses for Africa.
For more information: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/20/99-year-old-dress-lillian-weber_n_5694861.html
http://www.littledressesforafrica.org/blog/lillian-weber-goes-viral/
Nominated for: his work in independent black media. He was one of the activist journalists on the front lines in Ferguson.
For more information: http://elonjameswhite.com/
http://thisweekinblackness.com/
Nominated for: his work with homelessness, affordable housing, youth, public health, poverty and his work in the public sector.
For more information: http://www.globallivingston.org/leadership
http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/InternationalPrograms/oia/fulbright/recipients/jamievanleeuwen/Pages/default.aspx
Nominated for: being a slam poet, public intellectual, writer and activist around youth issues and in particular LGBTQ teens in the church.
For more information: http://jmaseiii.com/
Nominated for: her writing/journalism and activism in the Catholic church, for women’s rights, and against war.
For more information: http://www.fembio.org/english/biography.php/woman/biography/dorothy-day/
http://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/ddbiographytext.cfm?Number=72
http://www.biography.com/people/dorothy-day-9268575
Nominated for: her writing and advocacy for queer homeless youth. Having spent much of her teen years on the streets, she knows the toll that life can take. She is the author of Roving Pack &, just recently, Lost Bois, for which she is currently touring.
For more information: http://pomofreakshow.com/sassmain/
Nominated for: founding the Unreasonable Institute, a start-up incubator that helps social entrepreneurs scale up to make a big impact on large-scale environmental or social needs.
For more information: http://unreasonableinstitute.org/
http://www.inc.com/30under30/donna-fenn/tyler-hartung-daniel-epstein-teju-ravilochan-founders-of-the-unreasonable-institute.html
Nominated for: ratifing an amendment to the Ecuadorian Constitution that includes a Chapter on Rights for Nature. The Rights for Nature articles acknowledge that nature in all its life forms has the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles. And we – the people – have the legal authority to enforce these rights on behalf of ecosystems. The ecosystem itself can be named as the defendant.
For more information: http://pdba.georgetown.edu/Constitutions/Ecuador/english08.html
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