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Larry Long nominated for the Gandhi, King, Ikeda Community Builders Prize
Gandhi, King, Ikeda: A Legacy of Creating Peace
These eighteen community builders, nominated for the Gandhi-King-Ikeda
Community Builders Prize, reflect through their everyday actions the
common vision of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Daisaku
Ikeda. Each one is a representative of the many thousands of community
builders in Minnesota that are striving each day to foster peace and
equality for all through nonviolent means.
Jim Anderson - Cultural Chair and Historian to the Twin Cities Mendota Mdewakaton Community.
Eustolio Benavides, III - Metropolitan State University Professor
Mel Duncan - Co-founder and Director of Nonviolent Peaceforce
Juanita Espinosa - Executive Director of Native Arts Circle
James Everett - Youth Community Organizer
William K. Finney - St. Paul Chief of Police
Kim Himes - Playwright, Artist, Actor and Educator
Robert C. Johnson - Director of Ethnic Studies
Gita Kar - Indian Traditional Artists/Storyteller
Ghafar Lakanwal - Former Minister of Agriculture, Afghanistan
Choua Lee - first Hmong-American elected to public office in U.S.
Larry Long - Singer/Songwriter and Civil Rights Activist
Polly Mann - Co-founder of Women Against Military Madness
Donald Samuels - Minneapolis City Council Member
David V. Taylor - Dean of the General College, University of Minnesota
Elsa Vega-Perez - Otto Bremer Foundation Program Officer
Dorothy Woolfork - Pioneer Black business owner and lifelong Civil Rights Activist
Amal Yusuf - Chief Executive, Somalian Women's Association
For more information about the Gandhi, King, Ikeda Community Builders Prize, visit gkiexhibit.org.
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