2009 American Rights at Work Awards Celebration Host Committee:

Mark Ayers
Building & Construction Trades Department

Arlene Holt Baker
AFL-CIO

Deepak Bhargava
Center for Community Change

Kim Bobo
Interfaith Worker Justice

Julian Bond
NAACP

Hon. David Bonior

Robert L. Borosage
Campaign for America's Future

Anna Burger
Change to Win Federation

Charles Clements
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee

Larry Cohen
CWA

Larry Cox
Amnesty International USA

The Right Reverend Jane Holmes Dixon
Bishop of Washington, Pro tempore, retired

David Foster
Blue Green Alliance

Mayor Shirley Franklin
Atlanta

Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy
The Interfaith Alliance

Leo W. Gerard
USW

Ron Gettelfinger
UAW

Simon Greer
Jewish Funds for Justice

Sarita Gupta
Jobs with Justice

Joseph T. Hansen
UFCW

Sen. Tom Harkin
Iowa

Wade Henderson
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights

Roger Hickey
Campaign for America's Future

Edwin D. Hill
IBEW

James P. Hoffa
IBT

Gerald LeMelle
Africa Action

Philip Levine
Poet

Rep. John Lewis
Georgia

Jack Marco
Marco Consulting Group

Gerald W. McEntee
AFSCME

Rep. George Miller
California

Ruth Milkman
University of California-Los Angeles

Lawrence Mishel
Economic Policy Institute

Janet Murguía
National Council of La Raza

Terence M. O'Sullivan
LIUNA

John Podesta
Center for American Progress

Carl Pope
Sierra Club

Michael Posner
Human Rights First

Steven M. Powell
UFCW

Imam Sayed Hassan Al-Qazwini
The Islamic Center of America

Sen. Harry Reid
Nevada

Gov. Bill Richardson
New Mexico

Mary Robinson
Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Arturo S. Rodriguez
UFW

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

Kenneth Roth
Human Rights Watch

Rep. Jan Schakowsky
Illinois

Harley Shaiken
University of California, Berkeley

Liz Shuler
AFL-CIO

Beth Shulman
Author

Andrew L. Stern
SEIU

Michael J. Sullivan
SMWIA

Rabbi Alana Suskin

John J. Sweeney
AFL-CIO

Ajita Talwalker
John F. Kennedy School of Government

Richard L. Trumka
AFL-CIO

Dennis van Roekel
NEA

Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Nation

Rev. James Wallis
Call to Renewal

Randi Weingarten
AFT

Bradley Whitford
Actor

John W. Wilhelm
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Kent Wong
University of California, Los Angeles