Grinnell Prize Symposium, Nov. 7
Today’s Public Event—
- "Changing the World," SHE winners: 4:15 p.m. Rosenfield Center Room 101 (will be live streamed)
The 2013 Grinnell Prize recipients, Elizabeth Scharpf and Julian Ingabire Kayibanda of Sustainable Health Enterprises and Emily Arnold-Fernández of Asylum Access, are being honored for their innovations in social justice during a week-long series of events at Grinnell College and in Des Moines.
The third annual Grinnell Prize symposium, being held the week of November 3, brings these young innovators to campus to talk about their work and meet with students in and out of class.
Their visit is featuring a number of public events, including presentations by the prize recipients, and an awards ceremony with a keynote address by anti-death penalty activist Sister Helen Prejean.
About the Grinnell Prize
The Grinnell College Young Innovator for Social Justice Prize (also known as the Grinnell Prize) honors individuals under the age of 40 who have demonstrated leadership in their fields and who show creativity, commitment and extraordinary accomplishment in effecting positive social change. Each prize carries an award of $100,000, half to the winning individual (or individuals) and half to an organization committed to the winner’s area of social justice.