The 2022 Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Awards Celebration will be BACK and IN-PERSON on October 18, 2022 at the Capital Turnaround in Washington, D.C.!

Interested in sponsoring the 2022 Awards Celebration? Learn more here.

The details:

Reception - 5:30pm

Seated Program - 6:30pm

Parking

There is a paid parking lot on 7th Street across from Capital Turnaround's front door as well as two other paid parking lots at 401 M Street SE and 8th Street SE (between I Street & Virginia Avenue) 2 blocks south.

See picture here

Please Note:

-Vaccine and booster required

-Masks strongly encouraged (and we will have the JWJ-branded ones there)

-If you aren’t feeling well, please spare others and stay home.

This year’s honorees include:

The US Women’s National Team Players Association, in recognition of their landmark collective bargaining agreement, the result of a hard-fought, years-long effort to expose systemic inequities and win equal pay for equal work between the men’s and women’s national soccer teams.
Starbucks Workers United, for their incredible unionization efforts that have ignited a movement and swept across the country.
The United Steelworkers, for their trailblazing efforts to organize tire plants in the US South including at Kumho, Bridgestone, Giti Tire and more.
Discount Foundation Legacy Award Winner, Wendy Melendez Garcia, for her leadership and activism that centers around the janitorial experience, directly empowers overlooked communities, and highlights the importance of collective bargaining.

Honorary Host Committee (as of 8/25/2022):

Stuart Appelbaum, RWDSU
David Blumenstein, Segal
Tope Folarin, Institute for Policy Studies
Steve Greer, American Income Life
Sarita Gupta, Ford Foundation
Brian Hale, Ullico
Mary Kay Henry, SEIU
Mary Beth Maxwell, Open Society Foundations
Sara Nelson, AFA-CWA
Ai-jen Poo, National Domestic Workers Alliance & Caring Across Generations
Becky Pringle, NEA
Fred Redmond, AFL-CIO
Lee Saunders, AFSCME
Liz Shuler, AFL-CIO
DeMaurice Smith, NFL Players Association
Dorian Warren and Lorella Praeli, Community Change
Jimmy Williams, Jr., IUPAT

Thank you to our 2022 sponsors listed below! (As of 10/4/2022)

Champion Sponsors

American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
International Union of Painters and Allied Trades
Service Employees International Union
Ullico Inc.

Power Builder Sponsor

American Income Life

Change Maker Sponsors

AFL-CIO
International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers
Segal

Movement Organizer Sponsor

Global Labor Justice - International Labor Rights Forum
Laborers' International Union of North America

Next Bridge Sponsors

AFL-CIO Investment Trust
Association of Flight Attendants – CWA
Judy & David Bonior

Allied Sponsors

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
The Nation
Robbins Gellar Rudman & Dowd LLP
Sarita Gupta & Eddie Acosta
United Mine Workers of America

Solidarity Sponsors

AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust
Amanda Devecka-Rinear & Erica Smiley
ASB Real Estate
Calibre CPA
Chris Sanders Law PLLC
Community Change
Gephardt Group
Horizon Actuarial
International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers Union, AFL-CIO
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts
Mackenzie Baris & Alexis Stoumbelis
McMorgan & Company
National Domestic Workers Alliance
OxFam America
Pronita Gupta & Deepak Pateriya
Solidarity Center
Utility Workers Union of America

Advocate Sponsor

AFSCME District Council 37
Caitlyn Adams
Miranda Carter & Brenden Sloan
National Employment Law Project

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