Well hey – a new award for social justice journalism. Deadline March 8. Good money for good deeds = good news! -Mia
$25,000 Social Justice Leadership Prize Announced!
News Release-----Kalamazoo College Establishes Global
Prize for Collaborative Social Justice Leadership
Contact: Jeff Palmer O: 269.337.5724 / C: 269.806.7700
jpalmer@kzoo.eduKalamazoo College officials announced today the
establishment of the Kalamazoo College Global Prize for
Collaborative Social Justice Leadership, a biennial
$25,000 prize that honors an innovative andcollaborative leadership project in the pursuit of
social justice and human rights anywhere in the world.
The inaugural $25,000 Social Justice Leadership Prize
will be awarded May 11, 2013, following a juried
competition administered by the College's Arcus Center
for Social Justice Leadership. Jurors include author,political activist, and University of California-Santa
Cruz scholar Angela Y. Davis; former Executive Director
of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights
Commission Cary Alan Johnson; and Detroit-based author,educator, and columnist Shea Howell. Howell is also a
board member of the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to
Nurture Community Leadership, in Detroit.
A $5,000 Social Justice Leadership Prize, also juried,
will be awarded to a project in Southwest Michigan.
Jurors include a panel of K students, faculty, staff,
and Kalamazoo community members.
Entries-in the form of 8- to 10-minute videos-must be
received by March 8, 2013. Entry information, FAQ, and
more may be found at
www.kzoo.edu/SocialJusticeLeadershipPrize.