Grinnell College holds a symposium and awards ceremony to honor the winners of the Grinnell College Young Innovator for Social Justice Prize and to share knowledge about innovative social justice programs. Prize recipients deliver public lectures regarding their experiences and perspectives in shaping innovative programs that effect positive social change.
The 2011 Grinnell College Young Innovator for Social Justice Prize Symposium was held on the Grinnell College campus on October 25-27. The 2011 winners, Boris Bulayev, co-founder and executive director, and Eric W. Glustrom, co-founder and president of Educate! (shared award); James Kofi Annan, founder and president of Challenging Heights; and Rabbi Melissa Weintraub, founding executive director emeritus of Encounter, shared their experiences and perspectives in shaping innovative programs that effect positive social change.
The symposium’s keynote speaker was Morris Dees, the founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center and noted civil rights lawyer. Dees shared his many years of experience working for social justice and racial equality in the U.S. with the prize winners and with the Grinnell College community.
