{"id":2419,"date":"2013-05-12T12:17:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T16:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=2419"},"modified":"2025-02-05T16:09:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T21:09:58","slug":"kalamazoo-college-selects-winners-of-its-inaugural-global-prize-for-collaborative-social-justice-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/kalamazoo-college-selects-winners-of-its-inaugural-global-prize-for-collaborative-social-justice-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalamazoo College Selects Winners of Its Inaugural Global Prize for Collaborative Social Justice Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2423\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2423\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/05\/anel-Discussion-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2423 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/05\/anel-Discussion-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Four social justice leadership keynote discussion panelists\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/05\/anel-Discussion-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/05\/anel-Discussion-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/05\/anel-Discussion-1-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/05\/anel-Discussion-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Global Prize weekend included a keynote panel discussion on social justice leadership with (l-r) Arcus Center Executive Director Jaime Grant and jurors Angela Y. Davis, Cary Alan Johnson, and shea howell.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kalamazoo College has announced the winners of its inaugural Global Prize for Collaborative Social Justice Leadership, a juried competition that attracted 188 entries from across the United States and 22 other countries. Instead of awarding one Global Prize for $25,000, as had been planned, jurors awarded three Global Prizes for $10,000 each.<br \/>\nJurors also awarded a $5,000 Regional Prize for a project originating in Southwest Michigan.<br \/>\nSharing the top Global Prize (with links to their brief video entries) are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Dalia Association\" href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/64070940\"><strong>Dalia Association: The Road toward Palestinian Self-Determination<\/strong><\/a>. Based in Ramallah, Palestine, Dalia Association is a Palestinian-led community foundation dedicated to civil society development, accountability and self determination through awarding local grants and eliminating reliance on international aid.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language Partners<\/strong>. Based in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, Language Partners is a prisoner-created and led bilingual educational program that develops language, leadership, and job skills post incarceration in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Building Power for Restaurant Workers<\/strong>. Based in New York City and with national impact, Building Power is a restaurant worker-driven wage justice project founded by workers displaced by the 2001 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Winners were announced by Kalamazoo College President Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran on May 11 at the end of a three-day social justice leadership weekend where 18 Global and Regional finalists presented their project strategies and visions to jurors and an audience of campus and community members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are all winners,\u201d she said to the finalists, \u201cbecause of what you do every day and by how you inspire us to believe that the just world we all seek is within our grasp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Longtime social justice activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis, who served as a juror, explained the jury\u2019s decision to depart from the plan to award one $25,000 Global Prize. \u201cWe had no idea it would be so difficult to choose one winner\u201d from among so many inspiring finalists. \u201cWe came down to three and asked if it would be possible to split the prize three ways for $10,000 each.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Welcoming Michigan<\/strong>, a regional partnership that seeks to educate and organize across immigrant and U.S.-born\u00a0communities throughout Michigan, earned the $5,000 Regional Prize. Based in Kalamazoo at the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center, Welcoming Michigan carries out its work across the state with an emphasis on Southwest and Southeast Michigan. Its message\u2014\u201cWhen Michigan welcomes immigrants, Michigan thrives\u201d\u2014can be spotted on billboards and in other media region-wide.<\/p>\n<p>The biennial Global Prize competition honors innovative and collaborative leadership projects in the pursuit of social justice and human rights around the world and in Southwest Michigan. Leadership teams submitted 8- to 10-minute video entries by a March 8 deadline. Fifteen global and three regional finalists were selected. More information about the Kalamazoo College Global Prize competition and video entries of all finalists is available via www.kzoo.edu\/socialjustice and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KalamazooCollege?v=wall\">K Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Davis, jurors included former Executive Director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission Cary Alan Johnson and lifelong scholar\/activist shea howell, whose work has focused on social justice education and grassroots empowerment in Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>Several Kalamazoo College students, faculty, staff, and community partners also served as jurors.<\/p>\n<p>The Global Prize competition was administered by the College\u2019s Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, launched in 2009 with support from the Arcus Foundation (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcusfoundation.org\/\">www.arcusfoundation.org<\/a>), including a $23 million endowment grant in January 2012. Supporting Kalamazoo College\u2019s mission to prepare its graduates to better understand, live successfully within, and provide enlightened leadership to a richly diverse and increasingly complex world, the ACSJL will develop new leaders and sustain existing leaders in the field of human rights and social justice.<\/p>\n<p>Kalamazoo College (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/\">www.kzoo.edu<\/a>) was founded in 1833 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, located midway between Detroit and Chicago. K is a nationally recognized liberal arts college and the creator of the <em>K-Plan<\/em> that emphasizes rigorous scholarship, experiential learning, leadership development, and international and intercultural engagement. 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loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2423 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/05\/anel-Discussion-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Four social justice leadership keynote discussion panelists\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Global Prize weekend included a keynote panel discussion on social justice leadership with (l-r) Arcus Center Executive Director Jaime Grant and jurors Angela Y. Davis, Cary Alan Johnson, and shea howell.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kalamazoo College has announced the winners of its inaugural Global Prize for Collaborative Social Justice Leadership, a juried competition that attracted 188 entries from across the United States and 22 other countries. Instead of awarding one Global Prize for $25,000, as had been planned, jurors awarded three Global Prizes for $10,000 each.<br \/>\nJurors also awarded a $5,000 Regional Prize for a project originating in Southwest Michigan.<br \/>\nSharing the top Global Prize (with links to their brief video entries) are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Dalia Association\" href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/64070940\"><strong>Dalia Association: The Road toward Palestinian Self-Determination<\/strong><\/a>. Based in Ramallah, Palestine, Dalia Association is a Palestinian-led community foundation dedicated to civil society development, accountability and self determination through awarding local grants and eliminating reliance on international aid.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language Partners<\/strong>. Based in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, Language Partners is a prisoner-created and led bilingual educational program that develops language, leadership, and job skills post incarceration in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Building Power for Restaurant Workers<\/strong>. Based in New York City and with national impact, Building Power is a restaurant worker-driven wage justice project founded by workers displaced by the 2001 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Winners were announced by Kalamazoo College President Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran on May 11 at the end of a three-day social justice leadership weekend where 18 Global and Regional finalists presented their project strategies and visions to jurors and an audience of campus and community members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are all winners,\u201d she said to the finalists, \u201cbecause of what you do every day and by how you inspire us to believe that the just world we all seek is within our grasp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Longtime social justice activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis, who served as a juror, explained the jury\u2019s decision to depart from the plan to award one $25,000 Global Prize. \u201cWe had no idea it would be so difficult to choose one winner\u201d from among so many inspiring finalists. \u201cWe came down to three and asked if it would be possible to split the prize three ways for $10,000 each.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Welcoming Michigan<\/strong>, a regional partnership that seeks to educate and organize across immigrant and U.S.-born\u00a0communities throughout Michigan, earned the $5,000 Regional Prize. Based in Kalamazoo at the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center, Welcoming Michigan carries out its work across the state with an emphasis on Southwest and Southeast Michigan. Its message\u2014\u201cWhen Michigan welcomes immigrants, Michigan thrives\u201d\u2014can be spotted on billboards and in other media region-wide.<\/p>\n<p>The biennial Global Prize competition honors innovative and collaborative leadership projects in the pursuit of social justice and human rights around the world and in Southwest Michigan. Leadership teams submitted 8- to 10-minute video entries by a March 8 deadline. Fifteen global and three regional finalists were selected. More information about the Kalamazoo College Global Prize competition and video entries of all finalists is available via www.kzoo.edu\/socialjustice and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KalamazooCollege?v=wall\">K Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Davis, jurors included former Executive Director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission Cary Alan Johnson and lifelong scholar\/activist shea howell, whose work has focused on social justice education and grassroots empowerment in Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>Several Kalamazoo College students, faculty, staff, and community partners also served as jurors.<\/p>\n<p>The Global Prize competition was administered by the College\u2019s Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, launched in 2009 with support from the Arcus Foundation (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcusfoundation.org\/\">www.arcusfoundation.org<\/a>), including a $23 million endowment grant in January 2012. Supporting Kalamazoo College\u2019s mission to prepare its graduates to better understand, live successfully within, and provide enlightened leadership to a richly diverse and increasingly complex world, the ACSJL will develop new leaders and sustain existing leaders in the field of human rights and social justice.<\/p>\n<p>Kalamazoo College (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/\">www.kzoo.edu<\/a>) was founded in 1833 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, located midway between Detroit and Chicago. K is a nationally recognized liberal arts college and the creator of the <em>K-Plan<\/em> that emphasizes rigorous scholarship, experiential learning, leadership development, and international and intercultural engagement. 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