2022 Gleitsman International Activist Award

An accomplished social activist leads others to solve social problems. Specifically, the activist:

• Confronts the Status Quo:
• Challenges injustice: the contradiction between experience of the world as it is and as it ought to be.
• Organizes those who experience injustice to join with one another to challenge the individuals, organizations, or institutions respondible.
• Builds relationships among those who need change through which they can discern a common problem, devise shared solutions, and act on them.
• Develops a public narrative as to why urgent change is needed, what is at stake, and for whom.
• Devises strategy through which those who need the change can become authors of the change they need by learning to use their own resources to create the power to achieve the change.
• Innovates to Confront a Public Policy Dilemma
• By developing a new product, process, method or idea
• By building local capacity, or
• By influencing others to take action
• Is a Leader
• Develops the leadership needed to build the relationship, tell the story, devise the strategy, and put it into action.
• By building connections among multiple constituencies, and
• By responding and adapting to changing circumstances.
• Achieves Results
• Of significant breadth or depth
• That have a positive social impact
• That mobilize local resources, with an emphasis on sustainability, and
• The impact of which is documented and verifiable
• Timeliness
• Some of the primary accomplishments for which the social activist is being considered should have occurred ideally within the last 18 months.
• In most cases, leaders should be incumbents (i.e. still in their position of leadership) at the time of their selection.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Eligibility Criteria" for clarification)