25th Annual Human Rights Awards

Tuesday, June 4, 2024
12:00 - 1:30 p.m. CT
Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile
540 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611
Entrance on 541 N. Rush Street

The 25th Annual National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) Human Rights Awards honors human rights champions and celebrates the contributions of business, philanthropic, and community leaders. In 2024, we'll be celebrating 25 years of impact at our special Silver Anniversary event!

The Human Rights Awards is NIJC's signature event and thanks to your support, people and families will continue to have access to life-changing immigration legal services and programs that protect immigrant rights. On behalf of the 12,000 people who receive NIJC's services, we sincerely appreciate your support.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER & JEANNE M. AND JOSEPH P. SULLIVAN AWARD RECIPIENT

EDWIDGE DANTICAT is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection, Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist, The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner; the novels-in-stories, The Dew Breaker, Claire of the Sea Light, and The Art of Death, a National Book Critics Circle finalist for Criticism. She has written seven books for children and young adults, a travel narrative, After the Dance, and a collection of essays, Create Dangerously. Her memoir, Brother, I'm Dying, was a 2007 finalist for the National Book Award and a 2008 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. She is the editor of The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States, The Beacon Best of 2000, Haiti Noir, Haiti Noir 2, and Best American Essays 2011. She is a 2009 MacArthur Fellow, a 2018 Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow, a 2018 winner of the Neustadt Prize, a 2019 winner of the Saint Louis Literary Award, a 2020 United States Artist Fellow, a 2020 winner of the Vilceck Prize, and a 2023 winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. Her story collection, Everything Inside, was a 2020 winner of the Bocas Fiction Prize, The Story Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Prize. She is a Member of the New York Writer’s Hall of Fame and The American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is currently teaching at Columbia University.

2024 AWARDEES

Human Rights Corporate Award: Accenture

Human Rights Practitioner Award: Brian Casey, Barnes & Thornburg LLP

Community Change Award: Latino Policy Forum

2024 RISING STAR AWARD RECIPIENTS

Mary Kennedy, Seyfarth Shaw LLP 
Jackie McDonnell, Faegre Drinker  
Elizabeth Olivera, Cozen O’Connor
Leigh Brissenden, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
Matthew Hartzler, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
Rachel Cheng, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Marques Winick, Goldberg Kohn
Laila Khan, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Tommy Hoyt, Sidley Austin LLP
Joseph Glynn, Munger Tolles & Olson LLP

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