Previous Linowes Awardees



2008


Mark Bergel

Arva Jackson

Irwin Royster

Trayon White

2006

Elizabeth Clavel Love
Board Trustee/Project Coordinator, Escuela Bolivia ; Co-Chair, ESOL/HILT Citizens Advisory Committee

Lee Evans
Acting Principal, Magruder High School

Martin Jenkins (Youth Awardee)
Youth Participant and Board Member, Facilitating Leadership in Youth

Charise van Liew,
Co-Founder/Executive Director, Facilitating Leadership in Youth
[Note: Charise and Martin are Co-Awardees]

Mary McCurty
Lead Facilitator, Community Empowerment Program, IMPACT Silver Spring

Ayize Sabater
Co-Founder/Director, M.O.M.I.E.’s TLC; Co-Founder/Board Member, Community Harvest

Doris Watkins
Co-Coordinator, Tellin’ Stories Project, Teaching for Change

2005

Billy L. Chandler
Staff Interviewer, Visitors’ Services Center

Robert E. (Bobby) Coward, Jr.
Co-Founder/Director, DIRECT Action, & Chair/Spokesperson, Capital Area ADAPT

Han-Hoan (Hoan) Duc Dang
President, Maryland Vietnamese Mutual Association (MVMA) & Board Member, Impact Silver Spring

Martha Delgado (Youth Awardee)
Youth Advisory Board Member & Peer Educator, Identity, Inc.

William (Bill) and Sharon Murphy
Founders & Co-Directors, Mary House

Isabel van Isschot
Interpreter Services Department Director, La Clínica Del Pueblo

2004

Wanda Fox
Principal, Brightwood Elementary School

Brandon Haynes (Youth Awardee)
Advocate, Homelessness and Education

Renee Milligan, Ph.D., RNC
Family Nurse Practitioner, Pregnancy Aid Center & President, College Park Boys & Girls Club

Dario Muralles (Youth Awardee)
Intern, CASA of Maryland & Board Member , Maryland Latino Coalition for Justice

Rickey Payton, Sr.
President & CEO, Urban Nation H.I.P. - H.O.P. Choir

James Stephenson
Volunteer, Montgomery County Public Schools

2003

Geneva Barr
President, Montana Terrace Resident Council & Representative, Board of Commissioners, DC Housing Authority

Carlos Garcia
President, Higher Achievement Program Board of Directors

Deb Gottesman , Buzz Mauro & Michael Rodgers
Co-Directors, The Theatre Lab

Mary Lou Tietz
Executive Director, Community Family Life Services

Roberto Villarroél
President, Culmore Worker’s Center

2002

Dorris Juanita Darden & Jacqueline M. Massey
Co-Presidents, Wheeler Creek Estates Community Development Corporation

Carmen L. Fernandez
Founder, Hispanics Against Child Abuses and Neglect & Morning Star Program

Agnes Kariuki
Founder and Educational Coordinator, YMCA Nob Hill Homework Program

Anne Marie Willis
Special Education Preschool Teacher, Ashlawn Elementary School

Michael Steve Zanders
Founder and Athletic Director, Woodland Tigers Youth Sports and Educational Program

2001

Fred Beam
Performing Artist, Founding Executive Director, Invisible Hands, Inc.

Joseph S. Emmerich, Jr.
Founding Director, Chillum Youth Project

Ana Gonzalez
Founding Coordinator, Women’s Empowerment Program, CASA of Maryland

James “Chucky” Moore
Substance Abuse Counselor, Alexandria Public Schools STEP Program
Founder, Peer Advisory Program, and Co-founder, Untouchables, Youth Mentoring Program

Kimberley A. Shellman
Child Advocate, Founding Executive Director, Safe Shores : The D.C. Children’s Advocacy Center

2000

Fabian Barnes
Founding Artistic Director, The Dance Institute of Washington

Frankie Blackburn
Civic Activist & Founding Executive Director, Impact Silver Spring

Deborah L. McFadden
Founding President, International Children’s Alliance

Patricia Nalls
AIDS Activist, Founding Executive Director, The Women’s Collective

Hien T. Nguyen
Founding President, Washington D.C. Vietnamese Community Center

1999

Keter Betts (1928-2005)
Musician and Educator, Master Bass Player, Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts

Sandy Dang
Founding Executive Director, Asian American LEAD

Katie Fitzgerald
Civic Activist, DC ACORN

Dr. David Hilfiker
Medical Director, Joseph’s House

Reverend Norma Jennings
Director of Resource Development, FAST National Training and Evaluation Center

1998

Father Tesfamiam Baraki
Catholic Chaplain, Howard University Hospital , Former Pastor, Kidane-Mehret Ge’ez Rite, Catholic Church

Commander Hand Carde (1947-1998)
UN Navy Retired, AIDS Activist

Dorothea Ferrell
President, Barry Farm Resident Council

Pilar Laugel
Founding Executive Director, Language, ETC…

Paula Poulis
Principal, Cool Spring Elementary School

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