A highly accomplished leader, arts innovator, and multidisciplinary artist, Sandra Laronde (Misko Kizhigoo Migizii Kwe) which means “Red Sky Eagle Woman” in Anishinaabemowin (Ojibway) language, M.S.C., O.M.C., OOnt, B.A. (Hon), Hon. LL.D. has over three decades of experience in arts and culture. She is from the Teme-Augama-Anishinaabe (People of the Deep Water) in Temagami, northern […]
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Brian Floca Wins The 2022 Horace Mann Upstander Award For “Keeping the City Going”
Brian Floca is the author and illustrator of Locomotive, winner of the 2014 Caldecott Medal, Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11, Lightship, and The Racecar Alphabet, among other titles. His most recent book, Keeping the City Going, is a tribute to healthcare and other essential workers who stayed on the streets and on the job during the Covid-19 pandemic. Brian […]
2018 Horace Mann Upstanders Winners Announced
Antioch University Los Angeles’ Education Department has announced its 2018 Horace Mann Upstanders Winners: Tony Abbott has won the Horace Mann Upstanders Book Award for “The Summer of Owen Todd” and Mordicai Gerstein, author of “The Boy and the Whale” has won the Horace Mann Upstanders Lifetime Achievement Award. The Upstanders Awards will be formally presented to […]
Sharon Draper Wins 2016 Horace Mann Upstanders Book Award
Sharon M. Draper novel’s, Stella by Starlight, tackles racial injustice and finds strength in unlikely places. Draper tells the tale of a young girl living in South Carolina during the Depression-era, and is the winner of Antioch University Los Angeles’ ninth annual Horace Mann Upstanders Book Award. The award is given by AULA’s Education Department and […]