The Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School is calling for nominations for the 2023 Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award.
Recipients receive a $150,000 prize and a specially commissioned sculpture, and are honored at a ceremony at Harvard Kennedy School, where they are given public recognition for sparking positive social change and inspiring others to do the same.
Members of the Harvard community as well as the general public may nominate changemakers whose activism has made a mark in the United States through Friday, March 31, 2023. Click here to read selection criteria and to submit a nomination.
Previous winners of the Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award include “Me Too” movement founder Tarana Burke, civil rights leader and U.S. Representative John Lewis, and journalist and women’s movement activist Gloria Steinem.
The Gleitsman Program in Leadership for Social Change was launched in 2007 with an endowed gift from the estate of Alan L. Gleitsman. Gleitsman hoped that by spreading awareness of social changemakers, other would be inspired to act, and intended that the Citizen Activist Award “recognize people who make a difference, tell their story, and make other people aware of what one person can do.”