Candace Kattar
Teresa Ríos Wright Award for Excellence in Service to Latino Youth
Candace Kattar has been a fierce advocate and visionary for the local Latino community for 30 years, first as an immigration attorney with the firm Maggio + Kattar, then at La Clínica del Pueblo, and finally through her work at Identity where she has championed tens of thousands of young Latinos to help them reach their goals. She co-founded Identity with Diego Uriburu in 1998, served as our Executive Director until 2011, and then as Senior Program Director until her retirement in June 2019.
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Cecilia Muñoz
Identity Justice Award
Cecilia Muñoz was President Obama’s chief domestic policy advisor when he signed DACA and was the director of his White House Domestic Policy Council for five years. Prior to that, she served as the White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs. Before working in government, she was Senior Vice President for the Office of Research, Advocacy and Legislation at the National Council of La Raza (now UNIDOS US), the largest Latino advocacy organization in the United States. In 2000, she was named a MacArthur Fellow for her work on civil rights and immigration. Cecilia is now Vice President for Public Interest Technology and Local Initiatives for New America.
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Neighbors Rising
Identity Champion Award
Neighbors Rising is a non-political response to anti-immigrant and anti-other sentiments that are spreading and disheartening communities across the region. As a virtual group of neighbors who live in DC and Montgomery County, Neighbors Rising encourages collaborative and individual support of local nonprofits, like Identity, which already provide expert and effective direct services to neighbors in need of help and community embrace. Their many, many acts of kindness encourage and welcome vulnerable young people and their families as valued, respected neighbors.
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