2001 Dream Maker Award Winners
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Lauren Jarvis - Girl Achievement & Leadership
Lauren Jarvis is a 17-year old from Minneapolis whose social actions in fighting prejudice and bigotry, and promoting human rights have been recognized locally and nationally. Lauren has played a leading role in creating the Leland-Johnson Common Vision Program aimed at bringing Jewish and African American students together to learn about each other's cultures and to understand each other's experience with prejudice. A senior at St. Paul Academy, Lauren also mentors at-risk children in literacy programs and works with several local organizations that help strengthen Twin Cities neighborhoods and families impacted by poverty, including Avodah B'Yachad - Service Together and the Mayor's Youth Council of Minneapolis. She also has worked with the United Nations Children's Human Rights Initiative to fight poverty and children's human rights abuses throughout the world. Lauren Jarvis is inherently a leader, combining confidence with humility and empowering others to act.
Gloria Griffin - Woman Achievement & Leadership
Gloria Griffin is considered legendary in Minnesota for guiding, promoting and advancing women. The results of her work have raised awareness for important issues including women's health care, pay equity and more women candidates for elected office. A distinct voice in the women's movement, Griffin was the founder of the Minnesota Women's Consortium, and headed the team that bought and developed the Minnesota Women's Building, which today houses 15 nonprofit women's organizations. Griffin was the DFL-endorsed candidate for U.S. Congress (2nd District) in 1976 and chair of the Hennepin County Women's Political Caucus. And under Governor Perpich, she was the first chair of the Open Appointments Commission and fought to place many women and minorities in key positions. As a pioneer, leader and visionary, Gloria Griffin has been called "Minnesota's preeminent feminist."
Nancy Gruver - Individual Support & Leadership
Nancy Gruver of Duluth, MN is the founder and publisher of the groundbreaking publication, New Moon®: The Magazine for Girls and Their Dreams read by over 100,000 girls worldwide. Gruver is a national leader in the movement to empower girls and foster their creativity and self-confidence. New Moon for Girls is edited by girls who select material submitted by girls from around the world. New Moon (www.newmoon.org) is unique in many ways. The Girls Editorial Board (ages 8-14) is not an advisory board, but rather the real editors of the magazine with decision-making and policy-making roles. In addition, the advertising-free publication's sole source of revenue is subscriptions. Gruver's vision for the future is to continue bringing the New Moon model of girls' empowerment to more girls, and bringing girls' voices and dreams into the public arena.
Minnesota Women's Press - Organization Support & Leadership
Minnesota Women's Press (MWP) is perhaps the only newspaper of its kind and certainly one of the longest-lived women's publications in the country. Published biweekly, MWP is a thriving, for-profit independent business that has demonstrated that women's words have value in the marketplace. As the newspaper has grown, St. Paul-based Minnesota Women's Press, Inc. -- the company -- has evolved into broader forms of publishing and reading, including the Center for Feminist Reading, which conducts book groups, operates a retail book space and a 9,000-volume lending library of works by women, and publishes BookWomen: A Reader's Community for Those Who Love Women's Words. Co-founders Mollie Hoben and Glenda Martin have inspired many other women and girls to dream what news would be like from women's points of view and what women-centered book groups would be like. The results have been challenging, affirming and transforming.
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