Recent Martin Luther King Jr. Honorees
2014 Award Recipients and Nominees
Distinguished individual leadership award Dean Williams Director, Formerly Convicted Citizens Project
Distinguished alumni leadership award Councilman Tom Baker, Chief Community Affairs Officer, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh
Organizational leadership award Assemble, Nina Marie Barbuto, Founder
Nominees
Angela Allie ● Michael David Battle ● Seth Corbin ● James Daniels, Professor ● Tom Fallon ● Barbara Johnson ● Jessie B. Ramey ● Penny Semaia ● Jennifer Staley McCrady● Erin Baker● Lynn Banaszak Brusco ● Dominique Chamely ● Hon. Phyllis Comer ● La’Tasha D. Mayes ● Alexis Miller ● Quincy Kofi Swatson ● Wadria Taylor ● Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh ● Habitat for Humanity of Greater Pittsburgh
Read Pop City article on the 2014 MLK Leadership Award recipients and honorees.
2013 Award Recipients and Nominees
Distinguished individual leadership award Jeremy Resnick Co- founder and executive director of Propel Schools
Distinguished alumni leadership award Andrew Butcher, Co-founder and CEO of Growth Through Energy + Community Health (GTECH) Strategies
Organizational leadership award Hip-Hop On L.O.C.K. An education program that provides a positive environment for students to interact and enjoy hip-hop
Keynote Speaker: Kare Anderson
Coro alumnus Kare Anderson is an Emmy-winning former Wall Street Journal and NBC journalist and a columnist for Forbes and Harvard Business Review who’s coached pro athletes, start-up teams, scientists, senior executives and others on her A.I.R approach to becoming more frequently quoted
Nominees
Tom Baker ● Kevin Carter ● Ranika Chaney ● Meg Cheever ● Brandi Fisher ● Bruce Freshwater ● Constance Horton ● Liana Maneese ● RaeAnn Olander ● Laurie Popeck ● Kathy Risko ● Calvin Skinner ● Beth Snyder ● Richard Stafford ● Tamiko Stanley ● Jerome Taylor ● Rory Webb ● Jasiri X● Alliance for Police Accountability ● Delta Foundation ● Divine Intervention Ministries ● Holocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh ● Mentoring Partnership of Southwestern Pennsylvania ● Northside Christian Health Center ● One Pittsburgh ● The Pittsburgh Promise ● Robert Morris University ● Thelma Lovett YMCA
Click to read story in Pop City Media about values-based leadership at Coro Pittsburgh.
2012 Award Recipients and Nominees
- Maxwell King, Former President of The Heinz Endowments (individual)
- David Shapira, CEO, Giant Eagle, Inc. (individual)
- Mark Roosevelt, former superintendent of Pittsburgh Public Schools (individual)
- Doug Shields, former Council District 5, City of Pittsburgh (individual)
- PNC Financial Services (organization)
- Ernst and Young, LLC (organization)
- Center for Diversity & Inclusion, UPMC (organization)
- Pamela’s Restaurant (organization)
- The Union Project (organization)