Awards Celebration 2022

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