The National LGBTQ Task Force has announced the award recipients for the 28th annual Creating Change conference—the nation's largest LGBTQ advocacy conference—set to take place Jan. 20-24, 2016 at the Downtown Chicago Hilton, 720 S. Michigan Ave.
During the conference, Barbara Smith will be presented with the Susan J. Hyde Award for Longevity in the Movement. Smith, a lifelong activist in the LGBTQ-, civil- and women's-rights movements, founded Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press and served two terms as a councilmember of Albany, New York.
Marisa Franco, campaign director of the #Not1More campaign, will receive the Leadership on Immigration Award and Katherine Acey, who served as the executive director of GRIOT Circle as well as the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, will receive the SAGE Advocacy Award for Excellence in Leadership on Aging Issues.
Additional award recipients include Bob Miller, Nick Sakurai, Kasey White ( a former Windy City Times 30 Under 30 honoree ) and Hilton Worldwide.
To learn more about the awardees and for more information about the conference, visit www.CreatingChange.org .
