$1500 for music programs for the 16 year-old son of a longtime organizer for educational equity. As a result of her speaking up for racially and economically marginalized students who were forced into dangerous environments at school, her son was excluded from programs, field trips and extracurricular opportunities available to all other students.
$1500 for tutoring for the 11-year-old daughter whose father, a journalist, was attacked while covering a neo-Nazi rally. He was arrested and had his camera confiscated while his attacker walked free.
$1500 for gymnastics for the three year-old son whose father is in prison for throwing a folding chair in self defense while protesting a rally of armed and violent white supremacists in his community. Members of the rally were not charged.
$1500 for tutoring for the 10-year-old daughter whose father, a journalist, was attacked while covering a neo-Nazi rally. He was arrested and had his camera confiscated while his attacker walked free
$2000 for arts programming for two children, ages 10 and 13, whose father leaked documents that exposed racist surveillance tactics in the U.S. He was sentenced to prison and forced to liquidate all assets to pay legal fees.
$1500 for tutoring for the nine-year-old daughter whose father, a journalist, was attacked while covering a neo-Nazi rally. He was arrested and had his camera confiscated while his attacker walked free.
$8200 for a broad range of programs for seven children, ages four to 21, from four families whose parents were fired for advocating for equity in schools, racial justice and free press rights.
$4000 for tutoring for two children, ages nine and 12, whose father leaked documents that exposed racist surveillance tactics in the U.S. He was sentenced to prison and forced to liquidate all assets to pay legal fees.
$1500 for tutoring for the eight-year-old daughter whose father, a journalist, was attacked while covering a neo-Nazi rally. He was arrested and had his camera confiscated while his attacker walked free.
$19,380 for a broad range of programs and two Carry it Forward (CIF) awards for 14 children, ages seven to 22, from five families. Some parents were beaten and arrested while marching against environmental racism, while others were attacked or imprisoned for their organizing work.