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Dr. Robert H. Jackson Leadership Award |
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 This
annual award recognizes that individual or organization which best exemplifies
the ideals of education and service for which Dr. Jackson dedicated
his entire life. Among his many achievements, Bob was a co-founder of
The Heights School
in Potomac, Maryland. Recipients will receive a check for $500.
Dr. Robert H. Jackson
(1933 - 2001) |
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2010 Award Winner
 A
native of Toronto, Seanna Magee is as a financial advisor with London Life
Insurance Company with previous experience on the marketing staff of the popular
broadcaster Salt + Light Television. She obtained a Bachelor of Business
Administration and Concentration in Marketing with a Minor in Studio Art from
the University of St. Francis Xavier in Nova Scotia in 2007. As a student,
Seanna sought to explore how she could reach out to the less fortunate around
the world, despite a busy load of extra-curricular theatre, sports, campus
advocacy, and journalism. During an internship at the New York City headquarters
of the World Youth Alliance, Magee helped to
create a donor outreach program. A few months later, she volunteered at a
Nobel-Prize nominated educational
project in the Philippines. Last year, she organized the Canadian committee
of WYA and recently hosted a day-long seminar on multiculturalism and
immigration for Canadian WYA chapters. Seanna continues her active involvement
in leadership development by providing training sessions on social justice
issues. Her future plans are to study a Master’s Degree in Public Policy. Here
is the letter of nomination from
the World Youth Alliance by its Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Anna
Halpine.
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2009 Award Winner
 A
native of Kingwood, Texas, Thomas Ricardo Méndez graduated with honors in the
Honors Program and a degree in International Studies with minors in Spanish and
Latin American & Latino Studies from the University of St. Thomas in 2009. Among
his many undergraduate achievements and awards, Thomas was a founding board
member and president of the UST MicroCredit Program and 2009 Commencement
Speaker. The student-run MicroCredit Program established partnerships with
various non-profits and facilitated development of an internship opportunity in
the importation of honey created by loan recipients in Mexico. According to Dr.
Robert Ivany, university president, “I am well acquainted with Thomas as he was
a vibrant part of the University of St. Thomas community. Thomas’
accomplishments in his studies coupled with his humanitarian spirit make him a
particularly desirable candidate for the Jackson Award. His achievements
throughout his academic life, particularly his commitment to those less
fortunate, will allow him to excel at anything he chooses.” Thomas has been
named a 2010 “Ambassadorial Scholar” by the Rotary Foundation and will study
graduate economics at La Universidad Católica de Argentina.
Click
here to view the official University photo of NAEIF president Theodore Wills
(left) presenting the 2009
Dr. Robert H. Jackson Leadership Award to Thomas Méndez of the University of
St. Thomas, Class of 2009. Click here to read University of St. Thomas President
Dr. Robert Ivany's (right)
letter of recommendation for the award. Read the University of St. Thomas
news article on Thomas Méndez and the Dr. Robert H. Jackson award published by the their website
http://www.stthom.edu/mendez or
read a PDF
copy of the news article here (printed with permission of the University of
St. Thomas). |
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2006 Award Winner
 Born
in Boston, the oldest of nine children, Tessie Swope was 17 when she had an
experience in the Dominican Republic that changed her life forever. A little boy
from a poor village showed her a pile of five stones that he was using to build
a house for his mother. Tessie promised him that she would build a house for his
family and in his honor she founded a non-profit organization called “The Five
Stones Project”. Since 2003, Five Stones (www.fivestonesproject.org)
has not only built a house for Keko's family, but has also assisted in building
a vocational school in Cruz Verde, Dominican Republic, founding a scholarship
program for impoverished youth, and starting a business to create jobs in the
village. Tessie is currently a student at Rollins College where she studies
Sustainable Development in the Third World. She will graduate in the Spring of
2008. |
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2004 Award Winner
 Born in Mexico City, Dr. Georgina Pérez-Liz graduated from the
Medical School of the Universidad Panamericana in July 2004. As an
undergraduate, she volunteered in several medical assistance programs to benefit
the population of two primarily indigenous locations in Mexico. Georgina
performed her obligatory community service year in Tlapa, Guerrero, one of the
poorest indigenous regions of her country. In April 2004 she was the keynote
speaker at a national student conference held in Chicago where she spoke on
her beliefs regarding
human dignity and service. NAEIF sponsored her trip to that meeting.
Thereafter Georgina proposed and organized a "Pan-American Symposium about
Solidarity and Volunteerism" for university leaders that took place in Mexico
City in the winter of 2005. NAEIF was a major co-sponsor of this weekend event.
Following graduation, Dr. Pérez-Liz served for two years as Medical Director of
the Mazahua
Foundation, a Mexican nonprofit that serves indigenous communities north of
the capital. Georgina was named Chair of the NAEIF Board of Directors in June
2006. She is presently working as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of
Neuroscience at Temple School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
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2003 Award Winner
 After
studying public health in Mexico City during the summer of 2002, Sujan became
interested in Mexican culture. At Northwestern, he was involved with a
service-learning organization called "Alternative Spring Break." In January
2003, he helped organize a for-credit student seminar introducing students to
the US/Mexico border and Mexican immigration issues; during their spring break
that March, the class went to El Paso/Ciudad Juarez to do service work for a
variety of organizations. Sujan Reddy graduated from Northwestern University in
June 2003 with a major in Environmental Sciences and a minor in Anthropology.
After spending a year traveling, Sujan started medical school at Case Western
Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He has continued to take interest in
international issues by participating in NAIEF's "Pan-American Symposium about
Solidarity and Volunteerism." He also spent a summer in Uganda learning about
human rights as it relates to HIV/AIDS. He is currently planning a medical trip
to India and hopes to return to Latin America soon. |
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2002 Award Winner
 The
first recipient of this award was Mr. Ankit Mahadevia, who graduated summa
cum laude from Northwestern University in 2001 with degrees in biology and
economics. As an undergraduate, Ankit was active in a number of areas, including
student government, fundraising for "Habitat for Humanity" and chairing a
commission to improve health services on campus. Upon graduation, Ankit spent
the summer working for Mexico's largest health insurer and volunteering in rural
Mexico with Medicina y Asistencia Social (MAS). He later founded and
directed a student organization at Northwestern that held two annual benefits to
send money and medical supplies to the MAS clinic for indigenous communities.
Ankit subsequently worked for Congress on Medicare policy reform. He also taught
a high school course on health care. He is currently enrolled in the prestigious
Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, Maryland. |
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