Current and Past Dr. Martin Luther King Living the Dream Award Winners

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2025

Ms. Deva Mumphrey
Dr. Samariah Jenohn Riggins, DPT
Mr. Jerry McPherson​​​​​
Ms. Juan Te Dailey
Mrs. Donna Williams, Esq.

2024

Pastor Aubrey L. Barnwell
Mr. Kenny W. Harris
Mr. Jalen Herring
Mr. Essen Otu
Honorable Leah Landrum Taylor

2023

​Ms. Wen Chyi Chiu
Ms. Sharise Erby
Mr. Cordero Holmes
Dr. Will Moreland

2022

Ms. Kim Covington
Mr. Lloyd Hopkins
Ms. Nadia Khalighi
Mr. Richard Yarbough​

2021

Ms. Carolyn Bristo Chatman
Mr. Freddie Dobbins Jr.
Ms. Angela R. Garmon
Mr. Mel Hannah

202​0

Ms. Felicia Davis
Ms. Virgina Fargo
Ms. Colby Jeffers
Mr. Timothy Seay

2019

Ms. Audrey Bell-Jenkins
Ms. Kathryn Boris
Ms. Marlene Haller
Dr. Neal Lester
Mr. Benjamin Taylor
Ms. Janelle Wood

2018​​​

Ms. Joanna de'Shay
Mr. Warren Stewart Jr.
Ms. Charlene Tarver
Mr. Garry Walters

2017

Mr. Alvin Battle
Mr. Emmett Boyd
Ms. Dorothy Finnie
Ms. Eva Olivas
Ms. Dianne Post
Mr. Alan Powell

2016

Ms. Jacqueline Adams
Dr. George Brooks Jr.
Ms. Marchelle Franklin
Dr. Jerome Garrison
Mr. Ryan Johnson
Bishop Alexis Thomas

2015

Mr. Clay Dix
Dr. Rockel Etienne
Ms. Diana Gregory
Mr. Lovelle McMichael
Ms. Loraine Newman
Mr. William Ramsey Jr.

2014

Dr. Bernard Black
Mr. Jason Howard Green
Mr. Jennifer Longdon
Dr. Robert Sherman

2013

Mr. Erwin Cutright
Ms. Kenja Hassan
Ms. Lin Ling Lee
Ms. Lakhwinder Singh Sodi
Mr. Robert Williams

2012

Adam Lopez Falk
Dr. Madelaine Adelman
Dr. Donald Campbell
Dr. Wil Counts
Dr. Carnella Hardin
Detective Jerry Oliver

2011

Anthony Gathers
Rick Miller
Andrew F. Ortiz
Rev. Liana Rowe
Meg Sneed
Dr. Camilla Hester Westenberg

2010

Rhoshawndra Carnes
Deborah J. Kidd Chapman
Carlos Galindo-Elvira
Nicholas Love
Phil Pangrazio
Gloria Washington

2009

Brenda Combs
Mary Davis
Chris Fleischman
Marye Hutchings
Leonard Knight
RJ Shannon

2008

Deedra Abboud
Dr. Rufus Glasper
Imran and Yasmin Hafiz
Fatimah Halim
Isabel McMahel
Yvonne Watterson

2007

Helen Drake
Rory Gilbert
Tony Lopez
Andrew "AJ" Miller
Hubert A. Ross Sr.
Dr. Raul Yzaguirre

2006

Lottie Childers
Imam Abdur-Rahim Shamsid-Deen
The Rev. Benjamin N. Thomas
Dr. Matthew Whitaker
Mary Rose Wilcox
Ron Williams

2005

William "Bill" Dickey
Dr. Paul Eppinger
Charles R. Fanniel
Lal Fernando
Dr. John W. Molina
Ted Williams

2004

George Dean
Susan Gerard
Faye Gray
Luz Sarmina-Gutierrez
Gail Q. Knight
Earl Nelson

2003

Jean Chaudhuri
Tony de'Shay
Jose "Casper" Habre
Dr. Stephen Hennessy
Mark Maskalenko
Don Tarkington
Rev. Oscar Tillman

2002

Mary M. Black
Jose Cortez
Gerry Cullity
Judge Elizabeth R. Finn
Donna Gahagans Guida
Jackie Platt-Jennas
Ann F. Wheat

2001

Harold Branch III
Alberto Esparza
Karen Frye
Ronald Glass
Dr. Oscar Hardin Sr.
Lawrence Moore, Ph.D.
Kambriel Booth
Kathleen Lechuga

2000

Eddie Basha
John Goodie
Bill MacDonald
Calvin Terrell
Judith Tunnell
Richard Valenzuela

1999

Joel Breshin
Dr. Ann Hart
Robert Hegyi
Bill Mosley
Manuel Luis Ortega

1998

Jesse Ary
Dr. Dick Buscher
Gerald Heuett Jr.
Alexander Johnson Jr.
Hon. Cecil Patterson Jr.
Yolanda Strayhand
Rev. Charlotte Strayhorne
Sylvia Echave Stock

1997

Augustine Bartning
Det. Patricia Boybr
Mark Colledge
Lucille Lipham
Lucia Rodarte Madrid
Judge Jean Williams

1996

Gene Blue
Jaime Cardenas
Toby Citron
Damian Cuspard Sr.
Gloria Feldt
Ron Moser
Mark Yoshimura

1995

Fr. John Auther
Eliza MacCauly Carney
Hon. Noel Fidel
Fr. Bob Glynn
Robert Lynch
Coy Payne
Lawrence "Torrey" Winn

1994

Catalina Broyles
Rev. Ruben Carrico
E. Garry Grundy III
Ben Miranda
Danny Ortega Jr.
Congressman Ed Pastor
Marvin Perry
Tammy Sixkiller
Jane Wabnik
Mary Jo West
Earl Wilcox