Heather Award

In 2004 on the occasion of Heather Booth's birthday, the Midwest Academy announced the establishment of the Heather Award. 

 

With a back pay settlement of $10,000 Heather Booth founded the Midwest Academy in 1973 to train organizers for the progressive movement. As Heather moved from being a trainer at the Academy to a series of critical social change organizations and campaigns she always made room for developing new organizers.

 

Whether late at night or early morning there were and continue to be a series of organizers who look to Heather for inspiration, guidance, and hands-on, how-to help.  Each year The Heather Award goes to a woman organizer who demonstrates that she embraces the values and vision of Heather Booth and the Midwest Academy.  

 

 2010 Heather Award recipients are:

Cathy Duvall, Sierra Club and Heather McGhee, Demos

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Cathy Duvall is currently the National Political & Public Advocacy Director of the Sierra Club where she oversees the Club’s direct electoral activities and voter education campaigns. She comes to this position after more than 20 years of environmental and political organizing at the local, state, national and international levels. She spent the first decade living in a dozen states and working as a grassroots organizer to pass local and state policy initiatives. She spent the second decade immersed in partisan politics, working to elect dozens of Members of Congress, U.S. Presidents and as a key consultant to now President Viktor Yushchenko during the “Orange Revolution” in 2003-2004. She joined the staff of the Sierra Club at the end of 2005.  During her tenure, Cathy has led the organization in its most extensive and victorious political programs, expanding the work at both the national and state levels. She is a recognized leader in the DC progressive political community and was recently named “one of the top 100 most influential people in Washington DC” by Washington Life Magazine. She sits on numerous national boards including Working America Education Fund, Voices for Progress, and the Blue Green Alliance Education Fund.