LOS ANGELES, April 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Liberty Hill
Foundation celebrated its 41st Annual Upton Sinclair Celebration
honoring frontline organizers and changemakers fighting for
systemic change in Los Angeles on
April 17, 2024.
The foundation's signature event celebrated frontline
organizers, community leaders, and donor activists who have
contributed to progressive victories in Los Angeles County. Under this year's theme,
"On the Road to Change," the foundation recognized four honorees
who have dedicated their lives to the fight for social justice and
championed victories that have made Los
Angeles more just and equitable for all.
Honorees included donor activist and community leader
Celia Bernstein, who received the
Founders Award, Derek Steele, the
Executive Director of Social Justice Learning Institute, who
received the Changemaker Award for his leadership, as well as
Grammy nominated singer-songwriter and social justice activist Aloe
Blacc, recipient of the Creative Vision Award, and long-standing
community activist and Los Angeles City Councilmember of District
One Eunisses Hernandez, this year's Upton
Sinclair Award Honoree and keynote speaker.
Hosted at the Skirball Cultural Center, the celebration
highlighted the power of community and the progress led by L.A.
organizers in the local fights for youth justice, environmental
justice, housing and economic justice and LGBTQ and gender justice.
Event guests in attendance included Los Angeles City Councilmember
of District Six Imelda Padilla, Los Angeles City Councilmember of
District Eight Marqueece Harris-Dawson, California Assemblymember of the 55th District
Isaac Bryan, and Liberty Hill Co-Founder Sarah Pillsbury.
The evening's program included live performances by local
musical ensemble the Los Angeles Community Action Network's The
Freedom Singers, along with the premier of the "On the Road to
Change" film highlighting the frontline organizers and the
movements that are powering social changing in Los Angeles and beyond.
For more information about Liberty
Hill's 41st Annual Upton Sinclair Celebration, please
contact Courtney Kassel, Chief
Communications Officer, at
ckassel@libertyhill.org.
About Liberty Hill Foundation
Liberty Hill Foundation is a laboratory for social change
philanthropy. We leverage the power of community organizers, donor
activists, and allies to advance social justice through strategic
investment in grants, leadership training, and campaigns. We
envision a society in which all people have a powerful voice,
including those currently shut out of our democracy, people cut off
from opportunities because of their skin color, gender or sexual
orientation, where they live, or where they were born. We will not
rest until society provides justice and equality for all.
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