$2000 for tuition for the 15 year-old daughter of a longtime environmentalist and organizer. Her activist father has been called a domestic terrorist, threatened with imprisonment and subjected to multiple FBI raids for his efforts to save the planet.
$1500 for photography supplies for an 18-year-old drag performer and gender liberation activist who builds safe spaces for gender-nonconforming youth despite years of harassment.
$6600 for school and sports expenses and a CIF award for five children, ages 11 to 20, from two families. Their mothers have been denied jobs or threatened with prosecution for advocating for individuals wronged in the criminal justice system.
A $600 CIF award for a 24 year-old whose father is a known racial justice leader in his city. He is being targeted with a spurious lawsuit and hate mail, and the family has had to move far from their community.
$2000 for school tuition for the 18-year-old son whose family had to flee their home country after his mother and sisters were brutalized for the mom’s work against female genital mutilation.
$1000 for educational supplies for a 17-year-old drag performer and gender liberation activist who builds safe spaces for gender-nonconforming youth despite years of harassment.
Parents Forced to Flee $8200 for educational and sports activities and two CIF awards for seven children, ages eight to 23, from four families whose parents fled their home countries for the U.S. after their human rights activism put them in immediate danger.
$2600 for tuition and a CIF award for two children, ages 12 and 17, whose dad established an interfaith mosque to counteract society’s bias towards Muslims after 9/11. He faced harassment and detention by the FBI and fled the U.S. to end the persecution.
$6600 for school and sports expenses and a CIF award for five children, ages 11 to 19, from two families. Their mothers have been denied jobs or threatened with prosecution for advocating for individuals wronged in the criminal justice system.
$19,000 for a broad range of programs for 13 children, ages two to 17, from six families. Some parents were beaten and arrested while marching against environmental racism, while others were attacked or imprisoned for their organizing work.