The 2015 Social Justice Awards
“The Use of Power to Advocate on Behalf of the Powerless is the Greatest Virtue of Any Leader”
-- Congressman Major R. Owens (1936 – 2013)
Friday, April 17, 2015
TWU Local 100 Headquarters
195 Montague Street, 3rd Floor Brooklyn, NY 11201
The Central Brooklyn
Martin Luther King Commission
presented the first
MLK/Lindsay Award
to the Mayor of the City of New York
HONOREES WERE:
Mayor Bill De Blasio
Leo Casey
Executive Director, The Albert Shanker Institute
Educator, Clara Barton High School, Brooklyn
Lorrelle Henry
Central Brooklyn Martin Luther King Commission, Past President;
Retired Assistant Director of Libraries -- NYC Department of Education
Evy Papillon-Juste
Central Brooklyn Martin Luther King Commission, Past President;
Retired Nursing Administrator Kingsborough Psychiatric Clinic
Host Committee:
Eric Adams, President, Borough of Brooklyn
Rodneyse Bichotte, Member, NY State Assembly
Jim Brennan, Member, NY State Assembly
Yvette Clarke, Member, US Congress
Robert Cornegy, Jr., Member, City Council of New York
Laurie Cumbo, Member, City Council of New York
Katie Davis, President, Community Council of Medgar Evers College, Inc.
David Mark Greaves, Co-Editor, Our Time Press
Jesse Hamilton, Member, NY State Senate
Elizabeth Holtzman, Herrick, Feinstein LLP,
Former Member of Congress
Letitia James, Public Advocate, City of New York
Jay Kriegel, Senior Advisor, The Related Companies
(Former Chief of Staff to Mayor John Lindsay)
Velmanette Montgomery, Member, NY State Senate
Walter Mosley, Member, NY State Assembly
Kevin Parker, Member, NY State Senate
N. Nick Perry, Member, NY State Assembly
Margaret Lindsay Picotte, Daughter of Mayor John V. Lindsay
Annette Robinson, Member, NY State Assembly
John Samuelsen, President, TWU Local 100
Al Vann, Member, City Council of New York (retired)
Latrice Walker, Member, NY State Assembly
Jumaane Williams, Member, City Council of New York
Dr. Lester Young, Jr., Member, NYS Board of Regents
EVENT SPONSORS:
Transport Workers Union, Local 100
United Federation of Teachers
American Federation of Teachers
Albert Shanker Institute
Local 46,
Metal Lathers & Reinforcing Ironworkers
Council of School Supervisors & Administrators
