Honorees

Carol Ruth Silver is a Jewish American civil‑rights activist, lawyer, educator, and San Francisco political leader whose life includes courage as a Freedom Rider, decades of public service, international educational work, and ongoing social‑justice advocacy. College students were a driving force in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. They created the Student Nonviolent Coordinating

Claudia Goldin is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. She is the winner of the 2023 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her exceptional contributions to the field by advancing the understanding of women’s progress in the work force. Claudia Dale Goldin was born in 1946 to Jewish parents in the

Barbara Walters was the first female anchor on a network newscast and the highest paid news performer in her time. Barbara Jill Walters was born in Boston on September 25, 1929, the daughter of Dena (née Seletsky) and Lou Walters (born Louis Abraham Warmwater or Varmvasser). Her parents were children of Jewish emigrants from Lodz,