2005 Dream Maker Award Winners
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Photographer Ann Marsden creates beautiful black and white portraits of our Dream Maker Award Winners.
Whitney Staples Buesgens - Girl Achievement & Leadership
A high school senior from Slayton, Minn., Whitney Staples Buesgens reaches out to kids, offering grief support. Affected by the suffering of children who lost loved ones during the attacks on 9/11, she created Camp Love’s Embrace, a retreat for grieving children.
Mary Steiner Whelan - Woman Achievement & Leadership
From establishing childcare centers in Minnesota, to rebuilding villages and restoring hopes in Kenya and Uganda, Mary Steiner Whelan provides help to some of the people who need it most. Among her accomplishments includes "Give Us Wings," a nonprofit organization she created to help African families to become self-sufficient and overcome poverty.
Jacquelyn Hauser - Individual Support & Leadership
Knowing that public awareness would hold the criminal justice system more accountable, Jacquelyn Hauser co-founded WATCH, a court monitoring program that focuses on criminal cases of sexual assault and domestic abuse, and holds offenders accountable. Her work is dedicated to change both attitudes about crimes against women and children and the systems that address them.
Dads and Daughters - Organization Support & Leadership
Founded in 1999 in Duluth, Minn., Dads and Daughters (DADs) is the only organization in the country that specifically addresses the influence and potential of the daughter-father relationship. Led by President Joe Kelly, DADs inspires fathers to actively and deeply engage in the lives of their daughters, and galvanizes fathers and others to transform the pervasive cultural messages that devalue girls and women.
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Ann Bancroft is one of the world's preeminent polar explorers and an internationally recognized leader who is dedicated to inspiring women and girls around the world to unleash the power of their dreams.
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