Honorees

Honorees


Free City (College) Campaign
for a milestone victory in the national call for free college and providing support to San Francisco families to be able to access higher education and strengthen a critical community institution

CCSF students, faculty and supporters gather on the steps of City Hall to introduce a proposal for free community college for all in San Francisco, Calif. Tuesday, April 19, 2016. (Ekevara Kitpowsong/Special to S.F. Examiner)
CCSF students, faculty and supporters gather on the steps of City Hall to introduce a proposal for free community college for all in San Francisco, Calif. Tuesday, April 19, 2016. (Ekevara Kitpowsong/Special to S.F. Examiner)

Malkia Cyril
Executive Director of Center for Media Justice
for transformative leadership in fighting for the digital access and rights of working-class communities and communities of color; and for insuring that tools needed to engage in political discourse and organizing remain in the hands of the people

Headshot of Malkia Cyril
Malkia Cyril, headshot from the Center for Media Justice website: http://centerformediajustice.org/about/our-people/staff/

End National Security Scapegoating Coalition

for committing to end the racial profiling of Asian Americans and all people as national security threats; and for challenging the U.S. Department of Justice’s intensified efforts to target Chinese Americans Guoqing Cao, Shuyu Li, Sherry Chen, and Xiaoxing Xi for espionage related crimes.