We have selected a 2024 Global Citizen Awardee and look forward to recognizing their work at the 2024 UN Day Celebration on November 9th at Monona Terrace.
Past Honorees
2023
Wisconsin Watch for their work to promote investigative journalism as well as foster an informed citizenry.
2022
Natalka Akulenko for her local activism, volunteering and working for the City of Madison. She is the President of the Interpreters Cooperative of Madison.
2021
100 Black Men of Madison for their unselfish engagement in the community, to improve the lives of local and community youth, and others.
2020
Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Wisconsin-Madison for their continued work in the Madison community to promote international wellbeing.
2019
Lori DiPrete Brown for her work with the campus 4W Women and Well-being initiative and advocacy for human rights and women and girls.
2018
Liberian Assistance Program for its work to expand education opportunities for children in Liberia.
2017
Margaret Hawkins for the development of the Global Story Bridge Program she developed to connect under-resourced English language youth around the world via technology.
2016
Araceli Alonso for her Health by Motorcycle Project in Kenya
2015
Cecilia Zarate-Laun for her work helping Colombians create a peaceful participatory democracy and an economically just society.
2014
Joseph Elder for his peace keeping in Kashmir, Vietnam, Korea, and Sri Lanka and promoting the work of the United Nations.
2013
Vince Kavaloski for teaching the philosophies of peace and social justice.
2012
Sarith Ou and Roger Garms for the Cambodian School Project
2011
Lisa Fernandez for providing wheelchairs and school supplies to Nicaragua
2010
Norma Berkowitz for assisting the people affected by Chernobyl
2009
Jennifer Lowenstein for her work in Palestine
2008
Mike Boehm for his work in Vietnam
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