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Dr. Robert H. Jackson Leadership Award

 
  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)

 
   
  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.
 
     
  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.
 
   
  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.
 
   
  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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