ACM Leadership Awards
The George Stoney Humanistic Communication Award
renamed in 2008 by membership vote, to:
The Dirk Koning-George Stoney Humanistic Communication Award
The Dirk Koning-George Stoney Award is given annually to an organization or individual who has made an outstanding contribution to championing the growth and experience of humanistic community communications.
Winners of this award:
1980 – Sue Miller Buske
1981 – Jean Rice
1982 – Reverend Everett Parker
1983 – Diana Peck
1984 – Roxie Cole
1985 – Nicholas Johnson
1986 – Eugene Shirk, Mayor of Reading, PA
1987 – Tom Borrup
1988 – Michael Myerson
1989 – Alternative views, Austin, TX
1990 – The Benton Foundation
1991 – Dee Dee Halleck
1992 – Herb Schiller
1993 – Joe Van Eaton and Bob Devine
1994 – Alan Dachman
1995 – Tremeleau County Cable Commission
1996 – Shea & Gardner
1997 – Eric Barnou
1998 – Anthony Riddle and Paula Manley
1999 – Sheriff B.J. Barnes
2000 – Dirk Koning, Grand Rapids (MI) Community Media Center
2001 – The City of Brunswick, Ohio and Brunswick Township, Ohio
2002 – The City of McMinnville, Oregon
2003 – Wanda Baer, Dayton Access TV, Dayton OH
2004 – Homer Baldwin, WCTV, Wadsworth, OH; Amy Goodman, “Democracy Now!”
2005 – Reclaim the Media, and Fred Cohn
2006 – Sam Behrend
2007 – Lauren-Glenn Davitian
2008 - Margie Nicholson
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The Buske Leadership Award
The Buske Leadership Award recognizes individuals who have demonstrated commitment to the mission and goals of the Alliance for Community Media, leadership within the organization within the last three years, a high degree of involvement in the organization nationally, regionally and at the chapter level, and continuing service to the ACM.
Winners of this award:
1987 – Sue Miller Buske
1988 – Jan Lesher Ireland
1989 – Dirk Koning
1990 – Chuck Sherwood
1991 – Gerry Field
1992 – Sharon Ingraham
1993 – Lynn Carillo-Cruse
1994 – Andrew Blau
1995 – Rika Welsh
1996 – Hubert Jessup
1997 – Carl Kucharski
1998 – Steve Fortriede
1999 – Deb Vinsel
2000 – Alan Bushong
2001 – John Donovan
2002 – Erik Mollberg
2003 – Ron Cooper, Access Sacramento
2004 – Harry “Hap” Haasch
2005 – Brian Wilson
2006 – Sean McLaughlin
2007 – Debra Rogers
2008 - Tom Bishop
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Jewell Ryan-White Cultural Diversity Award
The Jewell Ryan-White Award for Cultural Diversity is given annually to those persons who show an outstanding contribution to a process that encourages, facilitates, or creates culturally diverse and/or non-mainstream community involvement in the field of community media.
Winners of this award:
1993 – Jewell Ryan-White
1994 – Curtis Henderson
1995 – Maggie Johnson-Reese
1996 – Rick Maultra
1997 – Fernando Moreno
1998 – CeCe Pinheiro
1999 – Richard Turner
2000 – Ben and Sue Charles – Native Media (Tacoma, Washington)
2001 – Azaka Ajanaku
2002 – Onida Coward-Mayers
2003 – Tarek Bagdadi, Minneapolis Telecommunications Network
2004 – Thenmozhi Sondararajan
2005 – Malkia Cyril
2006 – Edmund Broussard, Berkeley Community Media
2007 – Michael Zinzin
2008 - Graciela Rivera Oven
