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The Courageous Luminaries Awards Dinner celebrates the incredible contributions that our awards recipients have made to the immigrants’ rights movement.

2012 Awards Dinner - Honoring Courageous Luminaries

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2012 Dinner Sponsors

Visionary Sponsor:

Champion Sponsors:

  • American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
  • NILC Board of Directors
  • Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • UNITE HERE!

Torchbearer Sponsors:

  • American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
  • California Teachers Association
  • Laborers' International Union of North America
  • Munger, Tolles, & Olson
  • SEIU United Service Workers West
  • SEIU United Long Term Care Workers Local 6434
  • United Food and Commercial Workers International Union
  • Univision Communications Inc.

Beacon Sponsors:

  • 21st Century ILGWU Heritage Fund
  • American Federation of Teachers
  • The California Endowment
  • UCLA School of Law
  • Union Bank

Thanks so much to everyone who supported our 2012 Courageous Luminary Awards Dinner, held last Thursday, Dec 6 at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Over 250 guests attended and enjoyed an incredibly moving and inspirational evening. 


Honorees included:

Demian Bichir












Demián Bichir
Oscar nominee for the film “A Better Life”

Jose Antonio Vargas
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

SABEResPODER
Media company educating and empowering Latinos

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Defender of due process and civil rights

Pomona Economic Opportunity Center
Defender of due process and civil rights






 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To see more event photos, visit www.flickr.com/photos/itzcoatlarte/sets/72157632194894604/.

Proceeds from the event support NILC’s groundbreaking legal and policy efforts to defend and advance the rights of low-income immigrants.

For more information about NILC’s Courageous Luminaries awards dinners, contact Acasia Flores at (213) 674-2816.