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Lifetime Achievement Award

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Heyday History Award

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Greg Sarris

Lifetime Achievement Award

Greg Sarris is a renowned author, scholar, and teacher who is currently serving his fourteenth term as Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. His books include Keeping Slug Woman Alive: A Holistic Approach to American Indian Texts, Grand Avenue, Watermelon Nights, and How a Mountain Was Made.

Innosanto Nagara

Heyday History Award

Innosanto Nagara is a children’s author, activist, and graphic designer. He wrote and illustrated the bestselling alphabet book A is for Activist as well as the children’s books Counting on Community, My Night in the Planetarium, The Wedding Portrait, M is for Movement, and the newly released Oh, the Things We’re For!

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

Lifetime Achievement Award

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers is associate professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. Her book They Were Her Property (Yale University Press, 2019) bridges women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, making a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave-owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South’s slave market. For her dissertation on which the book was based, she won the 2013 Lerner-Scott Prize, given by the Organization of American Historians for the best doctoral dissertation in US women’s history.

Barbara Dane

Heyday History Award

Barbara Dane, born in 1927, is an American folk, blues, and jazz singer-songwriter. She was prominent in the movements for peace and justice as the struggle for civil rights spread and opposition to the Vietnam War mounted, singing at peace demonstrations throughout the United States and touring antiwar GI Coffeehouses all over the world. In 1966, she became the first US musician to tour post-revolutionary Cuba. By the early 1970s Dane had started Paredon Records with her husband, the late Irwin Silber, in their adopted hometown of Oakland, CA. Specializing in international protest music, she produced fifty albums, including three of her own. The label is now part of Smithsonian Folkways. Bob Dylan said of her: “The world needs more people like Barbara, someone who is willing to follow her conscience. She is, if the term must be used, a hero.”

Daniel Ellsberg

Lifetime Achievement Award

Daniel Ellsberg is a longtime activist who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971. Previously, working as a consultant to the Department of Defense and the White House, he helped draft Secretary Robert McNamara’s plans for nuclear war. Since the end of the Vietnam War, he has been a lecturer, writer, and activist on the dangers of the nuclear era, wrongful U.S. interventions, and the urgent need for patriotic whistle-blowing. Ellsberg is the author of Secrets:A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, and, most recently, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. He currently serves as a Senior Fellow of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Heyday History Award

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortizis known for her lifelong commitment to national and international social justice issues. She is professor emerita of Ethnic Studies at California State University, East Bay and is the author of numerous books and articles on Indigenous peoples’ right to self-determination, includingRoots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico; The Great Sioux Nation: Sitting in Judgement on America;andAn Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, which received the 2015 American Book Award. Her new book isLoaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment.

Robert Scheer

Lifetime Achievement Award

Robert Scheer, editor in chief of Truthdig, has built a reputation for strong social and political writing as Vietnam correspondent and editor in chief for Ramparts magazine and as a national correspondent and columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Scheer can be heard on the political radio program “Scheer Intelligence” on KCRW, the National Public Radio affiliate in Santa Monica, California. He is currently a clinical professor of communications at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Scheer has written ten books; his latest book, They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy (Nation Books), was released in 2015. Scheer received the 2010 Distinguished Work in New Media Award from the Society of Professional Journalists’ Greater Los Angeles Chapter, and in 2011 Ithaca College awarded him the Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Heyday History Award

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer is a New York Times best seller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His other books are The Refugees, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction) and Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.

T.C. Boyle

Lifetime Achievement Award

For his novels and short stories which reveal the drama of California with insight and irony. Past awards include the Pen/Faulkner Prize for best novel of the year (World’s End) and the PEN/Malamud Prize in the short story (T.C. Boyle Stories).

Benjamin Madley

Heyday History Award

Author of An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1845-1873 (Yale University Press)