2008 Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Awards Celebration Host Committee:

Phil Angelides
Apollo Alliance

Ajamu Baraka
US Human Rights Network

Andrea Batista Schlesinger
Drum Major Institute

Deepak Bhargava
Center for Community Change

Allida M. Black
The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers

Kim Bobo
Interfaith Worker Justice

Julian Bond
NAACP

Hon. David Bonior

Robert L. Borosage
Campaign for America's Future

R. Thomas Buffenbarger
IAM

Anna Burger
Change to Win Federation

Charles Clements
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee

Larry Cohen
CWA

Blanche Wiesen Cook
Author

Larry Cox
Amnesty International USA

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

Sen. John Edwards

Mayor Shirley Franklin
Atlanta

Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy
The Interfaith Alliance

Leo W. Gerard
USWA

Ron Gettelfinger
UAW

Simon Greer
Jewish Funds for Justice

Sarita Gupta
Jobs with Justice

Joseph T. Hansen
UFCW

Wade Henderson
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights

Edwin D. Hill
IBEW

James P. Hoffa
IBT

Judith Hope
Eleanor Roosevelt Legacy Committee

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts

Philip Levine
Poet

Rep. John Lewis
Georgia

Jack Marco
Marco Consulting Group

Edward J. McElroy
AFT

Gerald W. McEntee
AFSCME

Rep. George Miller
California

Lawrence Mishel
Economic Policy Institute

Janet Murguia
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

Imam Sayed Hassan Al-Qazwini
The Islamic Center of America

Miles Rapoport
Demos

Bruce S. Raynor
UNITE HERE

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

Beth Shulman
Author

Rep. Hilda Solis
California

Sen. Arlen Specter
Pennsylvania

Andrew L. Stern
SEIU

Michael J. Sullivan
SMWIA

Rabbi Alana Suskin

John J. Sweeney
AFL-CIO

Katrina vanden Heuvel
The Nation

Rev. James Wallis
Call to Renewal

Reg Weaver
NEA

Brad Whitford
Actor

John W. Wilhelm
UNITE HERE

Kent Wong
University of California, Los Angeles