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2011 Napier Award Recipients
2011 recipients of $10,000 Napier Award for Creative Leadership
Over the last two years Jacob has become deeply involved in helping young Vietnamese Americans in New Orleans East mount a campaign to challenge the systemic injustices that affect the public schools serving their community. The recipient last year of Davis and Strauss awards, Jacob used the stipends from those awards to help fund a study of the deplorable conditions gripping the schools, as well as of the policies and attitudes that sustain them. For his Napier project he proposes to work with the local Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association to take a series of actions aimed at generating corrective steps by decision-makers. Follow link to view results of his work in making social changes.
A highlight of Takako’s college years has been her participation in multiple facets of debating – teaching the requisite skills, managing and judging debates in middle schools, and competing as a talented intercollegiate debater. For her Napier project, Takako is proposing to return to Uganda and Kenya, where last year she implemented a successful public debating pilot project among hundreds of teachers and students on behalf of the Forum for African Women Educationalists. She hopes not only to expand the debate program in those two countries but also to introduce it in Rwanda and Tanzania. Takako believes that debating experience can be an effective tool for teaching African girls and boys to address social injustices as well as for fostering the personal skills necessary for self-growth and productive long-term citizenship. Follow link to view results of her work in making social changes.
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Jacob Cohen – Pomona
Takako Mino – Claremont McKenna