2020 Leadership Award Honorees
Phillip and Dorathy E. Barker
Co-Founders, Operation Spring Plant, Inc. (OSP)
Rosalinda Guillen
Executive Director, Community to Community Development (C2C)
Abiodun Henderson
Executive Director, The Come Up Project featuring Gangstas to Growers
Mark and Kerry Marhefka
Owners, Abundant Seafood
Caleb Zigas
Executive Director, La Cocina
The James Beard Foundation’s Leadership Awards spotlight the important and complex realms of sustainability, food justice, and public health. They raise awareness of these timely issues by celebrating the visionaries responsible for creating a healthier, safer, and more equitable and sustainable food system.
The Leadership Awards recognize specific outstanding initiatives as well as bodies of work and lifetime achievement. Excellence of work, innovation in approach, and scale of impact within a community or the nation are among the criteria used to select the recipients. Honorees are chosen by a volunteer committee of experts and the cohort of past Leadership Award recipients. The Foundation will award 2020 honorees a $10,000 cash prize to each honoree.
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