 | Pictured at the award ceremony are (from left) Charles Kochakian, editorial page editor, New Haven Register; State Representative Bill Dyson; Rabbi Herbert Brockman, Temple Mishkan Israel; President Richard C. Levin; Lindy Lee Gold, Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development; New Haven Mayor John Destefano; and Bishop Peter Rosazza. |
President Richard C. Levin was honored with the Community Dialogue Project's 2006 Reverend Howard Nash Community Leadership Award on May 3 at the New Haven Lawn Club.
The Dialogue Project, founded in 1997, is a collaborative effort of Community Mediation Inc. (CM) and Interfaith Cooperative Ministries Inc. (ICM), a council of 43 faith communities, including Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Unitarian and Baha'i congregations. During the project's first eight years, more than 2,000 people from over 100 organizations have come together to address discrimination within the New Haven community. The Community Leadership Award is named in memory of the late Reverend Howard Nash of Saint Bernadette's Roman Catholic Church, who was one of the Dialogue Project founders and a former ICM president.
Levin was chosen as the 2006 honoree both for his work as Yale's president in engaging the City of New Haven "in an unprecedented dialogue and partnership" and "for many other initiatives undertaken by University officials and students too numerous to name," according to a letter signed by Charles A. Pillsbury, executive director of CM; Reed Smith, ICM coordinator; and Esther Armand, Dialogue Project steering committee chair.
The initiatives cited in the letter include Bruce Alexander's and Michael Morand's leadership as vice president and associate vice president, respectively, of Yale's Office of New Haven and State Affairs; the participation of University Police Chief James Perrotti and other Yale police officers in the Community Justice Dialogue Project; the pioneering work by Cynthia Farrar, director of urban academic initaitves, in dialogue and deliberation, and as previous chair of the Dialogue Project steering committee; contributions of Divinity School graduates Zachary Pall and Ted De Barbieri, who served as student interns and then coordinators of the Dialogue Project; and the successful completion by 15 Yale students of a 10-hour facilitation training offered on campus by the project in 2005, which was sponsored by the undergraduate organization Realizing Race and funded by the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven.
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