Saturday, October 26, 2024

Nominations open

From La Crosse Waking up White:

Nominations Sought for the 2025

Martin Luther King, Jr. Leadership Award 

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Leadership Award was established in 2009. The purpose of this award is to recognize leadership in and commitment to building community, enhancing diversity, and working for justice. The nomination application and materials should address the following qualities in detail.This award recognizes community members whose leadership include the following:

  • Efforts are directed toward creating tangible, permanent and/or systemic positive change in the Greater La Crosse Area
  • Efforts are focused on issues of social justice, equity, diversity and inclusion, unearned privilege (may include other justice issues that mirror Dr. King’s work, e.g., race-equity, anti-poverty, peace, nonviolence)
  • Efforts work to empower and impact next generation
  • Efforts include devoting personal energies beyond one’s “paid position”
  • Efforts to create positive change in areas outside of the Greater La Crosse area
  • Any additional considerations or contributions

The award will be presented at the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Celebration on January 20th, 2025.  The featured speaker for the event is Dr. Lerone A. Martinthe faculty director for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University, where he is also an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies. His books and scholarship provide critical context for the forces of religion, politics, and race that have shaped the contemporary American political and social landscape.  Martin’s lectures on the intersection of religion and politics in American life have been featured at national conferences, faith communities, as well as leading universities including Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Columbia, and Georgetown. His commentary and writing have been featured on The Today Show, The History Channel, PBS, and CSPAN, as well as in The New York Times, Boston Globe, CNN.com, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He currently serves as Senior Editor of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project. Martin’s nonfiction book and adapted graphic novel about the adolescence and calling of Martin Luther King, Jr., are both forthcoming from HarperCollins.  For more information about Dr. Lerone A. Martin, visit https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/people/lerone-martin


Nominations can be submitted via the Google form below or the attached QR code. To request a paper nomination form or an alternative form of submission, email the selection committee at mlkdaylaxaward@gmail.com. The nomination deadline is Friday, November 8th at 11:59pm. 


Google Formhttps://forms.gle/dhoNmHQtADSSRAD8A or scan the QR code below.


Paper nominations can be returned the following ways:

Email: mlkdaylaxaward@gmail.com

Mail: MLK Jr. Selection Committee c/o Margaret's Urban Wear & Cindy B's Beauty Supplies, 1134 Gillette Street, La Crosse, WI 54603 

Fax: MLK Jr. Selection Committee at 608-615-1060

The primary contact for questions and more information is Carolyn Colleen Bostrack at 608-792-2283 or the Adult Award Selection Committee at mlkdaylaxaward@gmail.com

For more information about the event, contact Richard L. Kyte at rlkyte@viterbo.edu or Jill Miller at jmmiller@viterbo.edu.

This event will also be livestreamed on Facebook at www.facebook.com/viterboethics.


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Past Awardees

Roberta Stevens (2009) 

Thomas Harris (2010)

Andrea Hansen (2011)

Maureen Freedland (2012)

James Parker (2013)

William Coleman & Dempsey Miller III (2014) 

Barbara Stewart (2015)

Nahoua “Tony” Yang (2016) 

John Medinger (2017)

Nathaniel “Nate” Coleman, Jr. (2018) 

Shaundel Spivey (2019)

Tracy Littlejohn (2020)

Amanda Goodenough (2021)

Antoiwana Williams (2022) 

Bridget Todd Robbins  (2023)
Will Van Roosenbeek  (2024)

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