• Award of Merit

    2024-Fe y Justicia 2023-Coulee Region Immigration Task Force 2022-LIVE: Latinx in Valparaiso for Excellence (Valparaiso University) 2021-no award given 2020-Conference canceled (no award given) 2019 – Eduardo Magalhães III, Professor of Political Science, Simpson College
    2018 – Connie Vanderhyden, Kickapoo Guatemala Accompaniment Project (1 of 2) 2018 – El Centro de Conexión de Chippewa Valley (2 of 2)
    2017 – MEChA, UW-Madison
    2016 – Mujeres Orgullosas
    2015 – Witness for Peace (Upper Midwest)
    2014 – Nancy Paddleford, Professor of Music, St. Olaf College
    2013 – Wisconsin/Nicaragua Partners of the Americas, Stevens Point, WI
    2012 – Alfredo Gonzales, Associate Provost and Dean for International and
    Multicultural Education, Hope College (MI)
    2011 – Dr. Robert J. Knowlton, Emeritus, UW-Stevens Point
    2010 – The Madison Arcatao Sister City Project
    2009 – Iowa’s Latino Heritage Festival
    2008 – no award given
    2007 – Puentes/Bridges
    2006 – Dr. Karl Heise, Minnesota State University, Mankato
    2005 – no award given
    2004 – no award given
    2003 – El Museo Latino, Omaha / Christopher Vaughan,
    UW-Madison and Milwaukee Public Museum
    2002 – no award given
    2001 – Leon Narvaez, St. Olaf College
    2000 – Community Action on Latin America, Madison
    1999 – Associated Colleges of the Midwest Latin American Programs
    1998 – Conference on Central America – UW-Eau Claire
    1997 – Wisconsin/Nicaragua Partners, Stevens Point
    1996 – The Milwaukee Art Museum
    1995 – UW-Milwaukee Center for Latin America
    1994 – The Milwaukee Public Museum
    1993 – The Resource Center of the Americas/Roma Hoff, UW-Eau Claire
    1992 – Sotavento
    1991 – The Times of the Americas