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2023:  Chris Smalls is the founder and president of the Amazon Labor Union, an independent, democratic, worker-led labor union at Amazon in Staten Island. He is also the founder of The Congress of Essential Workers (TCOEW), a nationwide collective of essential workers and allies fighting for better working conditions, better wages, and a better world.

2022:  IEN's Executive Director Tom Goldtooth accepted the award.  Mr. Goldtooth is an Indigenous change-maker within the environmental, economic, energy, and climate justice movements, who has been defending Indigenous based environmental protection infrastructures for many years. He has recently co-formed the United Frontline Table and its People鈥檚 Orientation to a Regenerative Economy.

2021:  has picked up the unfinished work of the civil rights movement begun in 1968. People are coming together to confront the interlocking evils of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the war economy, and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism. Rev. Liz Theoharis accepted the award.

2020: is a group in Veracruz, Mexico, working to provide food and assistance to Central American migrants in transit.

2019: . is the founder of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, Calif., the largest gang intervention, rehabilitation, and re-entry program in the world.

2018:  is founder/executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative.

2017:  founded A New Way of Life Re-Entry Project (ANWOL) in 1998, dedicating her life to helping others break the cycle of incarceration.

2016:  is a nonprofit organization which uses the artistry of puppetry to help some of the world's most vulnerable children.

2015:  commanded the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Rwanda prior to and during the 1994 genocide.

2014:  is one of the largest charities in the Americas devoted to serving homeless and trafficked children and youth, which reaches more than 50,000 trafficked and exploited children and youth.

2013:  is a national Catholic social justice lobby that has been advocating for peace and justice in Washington for more than 40 years.

2012:  is a poet, author, cultural critic, conservationist and farmer. Often referred to as a 鈥�21-st century Henry David Thoreau,鈥� he has used pen and hand to teach us about our responsibilities for the land and for one another.

2011:  helped organize and then lead the Liberian Mass Action for Peace, a coalition of Christian and Muslim women who sat in public protest, confronting Liberia鈥檚 ruthless president and rebel warlords.

2010:  is a community-based organization that strives to build the strength of the community on a basis of reflection and analysis, constant attention to coalition-building across ethnic divisions, and an ongoing investment in leadership development to help their members continually develop their skills in community education and organization.

2009:  is founder of White Dog Community Enterprises.

2007-08: The is an anti-graffiti mural program in Philadelphia.

2006:  is a non-fiction writer, educator and activist, best known for his books on public education in the United States.

2005:  is a local peace activist who stood opposed to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Berg, with his family, were thrust into the national and international spotlight when his son, Nick Berg, was brutally murdered in Iraq in May 2004.

2004 received the highest award the world can offer鈥攖he Nobel Peace Prize鈥攊n 1984 for his contribution to the cause of racial justice in South Africa.

2003:  was founded in 1996 to campaign for an end to economic and military warfare against the Iraqi people.

2002:  is one of America's most prominent political dissidents and a strong advocate for peace and justice.

2001:  from Georgia was one of the key figures in the Civil Rights Movement.

2000:  is a celebrated Jesuit poet, anti-war activist and radical advocate of human rights.

1999: . was founded in 1988 and has been a leader in providing comprehensive and effective services to persons who experience chronic homelessness in Philadelphia.

1998:  MM, is a Maryknoll priest, social activist and founder of SOA Watch, an organization dedicated to shutting down the infamous School of the Americas (renamed Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation).

1997:  (House of Grace) is a collection of autonomous communities of Catholics and their associates founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in the United States in 1933. Each house has a different mission, going about the work of social justice in its own way, suited to its local region.

1996: , is a passionate advocate for abolition of capital punishment and the author of Dead Man Walking, made into a 1995 film starring Susan Sarandon.

1995:  is an author, preacher, activist and editor of Sojourners, a magazine reporting and analyzing the intersection of faith, politics and culture鈥攎aking a direct link between strong biblical faith and active social engagement, theology and action, spirituality and politics.

1994: Rev. John P. McNamee is and author and pastor. Inspired by the Rev. Daniel Berrigan, SJ, he wrote several books of poetry and prose championing the rights of poor persons, including Diary of a City Priest, which was made into an inspiring film for public television in 2001.

1993:  was a Catholic Worker, author and founder of Pax Christi, USA.

1992:  is a nonprofit organization that provides legal representation and technical assistance to Indian tribes, organizations and individuals nationwide

1991:  is a nonprofit, nondenominational Christian housing organization working to build simple, decent, affordable, houses in partnership with those in need of adequate shelter.

1990:  is an author and advocate for the poor and oppressed.