Awardees: Hometown Heroes 2020
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We honored 17 people and organizations for their generous, brave, selfless contributions to our community during the 2020 wave of challenges: pandemic, wildfires, social injustice, and economic downturn.
Above is a short 2-minute video of 2020 in retrospect. Our gratitude to Shmuel Thaler, Angelica Glass, Amanda Rotella, and Aaron Huang.
Below are bite-sized videos of each Awardee.
By EOD of December 3, all of the videos will be uploaded. We want to thank our entire community, as well as the Nominees who did not make the final cut (see Nominees).
Bonnie Lipscomb / SC Economic Development
PPE for the Central Coast
Bryan Largay, Peter Newton
Cindy Larive / UCSC
Dr. Gail Newel
Ride Out the Wave
Drew Meyer, Rex Harris
Isabel Bjork / UCSC Genomics Institute
Jeremy Sanford / UCSC
Susan Nemitz / Santa Cruz County Public Libraries
Watsonville Campesino Appreciation Caravan, Digital NEST
Joanne Sanchez, Jacob Martinez
Paulina Moreno / The Thriving Immigrants Initiative
Ruby Vasquez
Smith Grade Bald Mt. Fire Crew
