2025 Winners

Many individuals “talk the talk” when it comes to combating the forces of intolerance and inequity, but the ultimate example of “walking the walk,” is the Kansas City-based advocacy alliance Showing Up for Racial Justice.

As the pioneering Space Shuttle Challenger astronaut Ellison S. Onizuka inspired the Asian diaspora to explore “brave new worlds,” Hawai’i’s Ke Kula ʻO Nāwahīokalaniʻōpuʻu Iki Lab Public Charter School is creating a bright future for AAPI youth by embracing history and culture.

Sustenance, sustainability, and self-determination: that’s the three-pronged assignment of The Mississippi Minority Farmers Alliance.

Maud Dahme has dedicated her life to enlightening young people about intolerance, and taking a stand against it. She comes by this honestly; the Holland-born Ms. Dahme is a Holocaust survivor.

Ohio-based education innovator LeShun “Ship” Collins is a worthy inheritor of Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy of social engagement… and enlightenment translating to empowerment.

As a tenured professor of Native American Studies at Sacramento’s American River College, Mr. Valle brings his personal, and a people’s legacy and purpose to the forefront of higher education.

Kentucky-based educator Elise Carter continues Dr. Woodson’s legacy by advancing opportunity for African American youth.

Dr. Silva has devoted her decades-long career to educational platforms promoting culture, tolerance and linguistic independence for American Latinos.

Dr. Winmill is one of the nation’s leading figures in advancing academic opportunity for young women.