Darrell Brown - Oustanding Citizen Award

Darrell, a native of Los Angeles, is a Senior Vice President for the Metropolitan Banking Group, Greater Los Angeles Coastal Region of U.S. Bank, the nations' sixth largest commercial bank with over $291 billion in assets and 17.2 million customers. With over 38 years of extensive experience in diverse leadership and management roles within the banking world, he is an outspoken advocate for identifying new markets for individual customers with diverse financial needs. Darrell is recognized as a proven change agent with expertise in revitalizing organizations, building brand equity, and affecting positive growth. As a highly respected leader with a clear, focused direction, he has seen notable results throughout his career. He has been instrumental in corporate reorganization and restored customer confidence by consistently delivering innovative products, services and programs to maximize profits. Darrell is an effective mentor and coach who believes that "high achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation".

Darrell is an alumnus of UCLA and The Carlson School of Executive Management at the University of Minnesota. He has received many honors and awards including "Father of the Year" by the American Diabetes Association and the 2009 Leadership Award presented by the California Legislative Black Caucus, and recently the recipient of the "The Luis Lainer's Founders Award" from Bet Tzedek - The House of Justice. He is routinely called upon to speak as a guest lecturer throughout the country on various financial topics, and is recognized as an expert in matters relating to personal finance.

 

Glynn and Jo-An Turman - Community Activist Award

A Emmy Award winner, Glynn Turman, started his career at a tender age of 12, in the landmark Broadway production of A RAISIN IN THE SUN with Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee. Among his many film credits are: Men of Honor, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, , Kings of the Evening in which he won the 2009 San Diego Black Film Festival Best Supporting Actor), and the cult classic Cooley High. Turman's television series and roles include, 'Colonel Taylor' on "A Different World", "Resurrection Blvd", "Big Apple", "The Wire", "The Defenders", "Scrubs", "Southland", "Flash Forward", "In Treatment", "CSI", "The Bernie Mac Show", "Law and Order, CI", "Buffalo Soldiers", and "The Minstrel Man." In 2008 Turman scored his first Emmy win as Outstanding Guest Actor for the HBO series "In Treatment." He's won 3 NAACP Image Awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award for Theatre; the 2010 Pan African Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2010 LA Stage Ovation Award for Outstanding Lead Actor as 'Memphis' in August Wilson's "Two Trains Running", a Los Angeles Critics Award nomination; a Dramalogue Award; and multiple NAACP Image Award nominations.

Jo-An Turman, as Senior Director of Marketing and Communications for Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles, is committed to increasing the awareness of the need for affordable housing for families currently living below the poverty level. Working for L.A.'s only affordable housing builder is an ideal role for Jo-An, who began her career in Education and Real Estate as a Broker/Owner of her own national real estate franchise and has dedicated her life to helping others.

But what is most near and dear to their hearts, is being blessed with the opportunity to be co-founders and Camp Directors of "Camp Gid D Up", which they founded in 1992. They provide disenfranchised inner-city and at-risk youth an opportunity to attend a free western style summer camp on a real 20 acre ranch. The youth learn to ride horses, rope, swim, toss horseshoes, do arts and crafts, hike, , archery, sleep under the stars, enjoy nature, make friends, breathe fresh air, and ride a Bucky. This camp was founded as a promise to the late Mrs. Coretta King and Ambassador Andrew Young to bring peace among youth gangs after the riots of the 1990s. For the past nineteen years, they have operated this FREE summer camp through their non-profit, "IX Winds Ranch Foundation." The Turman's feel that the service they are providing is well spent, since over 90% of the graduates of the camp have gone on to college, technical school, the military or employment.

 

Dr. Henri Ford - Humanitarian Award

Dr. Ford is vice president and chief of surgery at the nation's leading children's hospital, Children's Hospital in Los Angeles, known worldwide for its leadership in pediatric and adolescent health. As surgeon-in-chief and vice president for perioperative services, he oversees the entire perioperative services. Under his leadership, the hospital has developed a robust, state of the art minimally invasive surgery program. Dr. Ford has been elected to a four-year term on the Board of Trustees of Princeton University in New Jersey. He  is an internationally recognized medical leader in pediatric surgery having published hundreds of articles and having won many honors in his field. Recently, Dr. Ford served as a member of the medical relief team deployed to his native country, Haiti, by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services following the devastating earthquake.

In addition to his duties at Children's Hospital, Dr. Ford serves as vice-dean for Medical Education, professor and vice chair for clinical affairs in the Department of Surgery at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. Dr. Ford earned his bachelor's degree, cum laude, from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton in 1980, along with certificates in African American studies, Latin American studies and science in human affairs. He earned an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and is a member of the Association of Black Princeton Alumni. Dr. Ford's current priorities include revising the Year III/IV medical student curriculum; strengthening research opportunities for medical students; developing new sources of funding for medical student scholarships, and rebuilding Haiti and providing quality medical care.

 

Honorable Jan Perry - Lifetime Achievement Award

Councilwoman Perry was elected to 2001 and represents the Ninth District, some of the most diverse and vibrant communities in Los Angeles including Bunker Hill, Little Tokyo, and South Los Angeles. Perry has earmarked funds to establish the city's first year-round Emergency Homeless Shelter Program. She is spearheading integration of vital services for shelter cases in a multi-pronged effort to meet the challenge of homelessness in Central City East and throughout the region. Perry co-authored and is widely credited with passage of Proposition O to clean Los Angeles water. The Augustus Hawkins Wetland is one of Perry's most inspiring initiatives. The nation's first man-made wetland in a highly urban area is part of Augustus Hawkins Park. Perry initiated the project, and it is due in large measure to her unwavering tenacity that it came to fruition. The project is an ecological wonder in its own right and it also serves as a demonstration project for Perry's proposed 9-acre South Los Angeles Wetlands Park that will simultaneously improve water quality and provide much-needed park and recreation space to the South Los Angeles community.

Perry currently chairs the Energy and the Environment Committee; vice-chairs the Information Technology & Government Affairs Committee; Ad Hoc on Economic Recovery & Reinvestment; and Ad Hoc Committee on Recovering Energy, Natural Resources, and Economic Benefit from Waste for LA (RENEW LA) Committee. She is a member of the Housing, Community and Economic Development Committee and Public Safety Committee. She was appointed by the mayor to represent LA as governing board member of the South Coast Air Quality Management District, and was re-elected in 2006 by the Western cities to serve another 4-year term. Perry also serves on the Exposition Light Rail Authority and is president pro tempore for the Los Angeles City Council. She earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Southern California School of Journalism, cum laude, and received a master's degree from USC in public administration.

 

Dr. Jean William Pape - The President's Award

Dr. Pape is the founding and current director of Les Centres GHESKIO Clinic (The Haitian Group for the Study of Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections) a non-governmental research and training center which is internationally recognized for its critical work in the treatment of HIV/AIDS and associated illnesses such as tuberculosis, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The clinic was founded in 1982 and is dedicated to the improvement of health care through prevention, clinical care, research and training. GHESKIO was the first institution in the world exclusively dedicated to the fight against HIV/AIDS. He has become an international leader from his efforts to implement programs for the prevention and control of AIDS and tuberculosis in Haiti and other resource-poor countries.

Dr. Pape has received numerous international awards for his work including the Clinton Global Citizen Award from former President Bill Clinton, Carlos Slim Award for Global Health, the Bill and Melinda Gates Award for Global Health, and the Institut de France Prix Christophe Merieux. In 2003, Dr. Pape was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine. He was also awarded the Legion of Honor by the President of France, for his contribution to the improvement of the health of the Haitian people and that of people in the world. He was also honored as a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, honored by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi A. Annan at a special ceremony, in addition to international organizations, governments and leaders seek his counsel on bioethics, health disparity, and global infectious diseases.

 

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