The Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship is an American award given jointly by
Type Media Center (a nonprofit media organization previously associated with ''
The Nation'' magazine) and the
Puffin Foundation. The annual $100,000 award honors artists and others who have "challenged the status quo through distinctive, courageous, imaginative and socially responsible work of significance." The prize is intended to "encourage the recipients to continue their work, and to inspire others to challenge the prevailing orthodoxies they face in their careers." The inaugural award was in 2001.
The Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship was renamed in 2017. It was formerly known as the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship.
Winners
*2001
Robert Parris Moses
*2002
Dolores Huerta
*2003
David Protess
*2004
Barbara Ehrenreich
*2005
Jonathan Kozol
*2006
Amy Goodman
*2007
Michael Ratner
*2008
Van Jones
*2009
Jim Hightower
*2010
Bill McKibben
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*2010
Cecile Richards
*2011
Tony Kushner
*2012
Benjamin Todd Jealous
*2013
Barry W. Lynn Barry W. Lynn (born 1948) was the executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State from 1992 to November 2017, when he retired. He was ordained as a minister in the United Church of Christ and a prominent leader of the rel ...
*2014
Frances Fox Piven
*2015
William J. Barber II
*2016
Bryan Stevenson
*2017
Colin Kaepernick
*2018
Parkland student activists
*2019
The Sunrise Movement
*2020
Desmond Meade
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*2021
The National Network for Abortion Funds
References
External links
Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship official website.
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Awards established in 2001
Lifetime achievement awards