Capital Awards and Congressional Awards Honorees

Capital Awards and Congressional Awards

1988–Present

2024

37th Annual UnidosUS Capital Award

Representative Nanette Barragán (D-CA, 44th District) Chair, Congressional Hispanic Caucus

UnidosUS Capital Award for Public Service

Food Research & Action Center (FRAC)

2023

36th Annual UnidosUS Capital Awards

Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-NM)

Mike Madrid
Political Consultant

UnidosUS Capital Award for Public Service

Aliento

2022

35th Annual UnidosUS Capital Awards

Senator Cortez Masto (D-NV)

Representative Ruben Gallego
(D-AZ, 7th District)

UnidosUS Capital Award for Public Service

Friends of the National Museum of the American Latino (FRIENDS)

2021

34th Annual UnidosUS Capital Awards

Cindy McCain
Businesswoman, Philanthropist, and Humanitarian

Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ)

UnidosUS Capital Award for Public Service

Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA)

2020

33rd Annual UnidosUS Capital Awards

Xavier Becerra
Attorney General of California

Michael Steele
Former Maryland Lieutenant Governor; Former Chair, Republican National Committee

UnidosUS Capital Award for Public Service

El Paso Fuerte

Annuciation House 

Border Network for Human Rights

Centro de Salud Familiar La Fe
UnidosUS Affiliate

Hope Border Institute

Project BRAVO
UnidosUS Affiliate

Project Vida Health Center
UnidosUS Affiliate

Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid

YCWA El Paso del Norte Region
UnidosUS Affiliate

2019

32nd Annual UnidosUS Capital Awards

Al R. Cardenas
Senior Partner, Squire Patton Boggs

Representative Lucille Roybal-Allard
(D–CA 40th District)

UnidosUS Capital Award for Public Service

Mónica Ramírez
Founder and President, Justice for Migrant Women and the Co-Founder of Alianza Nacional de Campesinas

2018

31st Annual UnidosUS Capital Awards Lifetime Achievement Awards *

Representative Ilena Ros-Lehtinen
(R-FL 27th District)

Representative Luis Gutiérrez
(D-IL 4th District)

UnidosUS Capital Award for Public Service †

World Central Kitchen
Founded by Chef José Andrés

2017

30th Annual NCLR Capital Awards

Mayor Eric Garcetti 
City of Los Angeles

Mayor Martin J. Walsh
City of Boston

NCLR Capital Award for Public Service

Ana Navarro
Republican Strategist and Political Commentator

2016

29th Annual NCLR Capital Awards

Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN)

Senator Patty Murray (D-WA)

Representative Nydia M. Velázquez
(D-NY 7th District)

NCLR Capital Award for Public Service

Sister Norma Pimentel, MJ, LPC
Executive Director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley

2015

28th Annual NCLR Capital Awards

Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ)

NCLR Capital Award for Public Service

Frank Sharry
Founder and Executive Director, America’s Voice

2014

27th Annual NCLR Capital Awards

The U.S. Senate “Gang of Eight”:

Michael Bennet (D-CO)

Richard Durbin (D-IL)

Jeff Flake (R-AZ)

Lindsey Graham (R-SC)

John McCain (R-AZ)

Robert Menendez (D-NJ)

Marco Rubio (R-FL)

Chuck Schumer (D-NY)

NCLR Capital Award for Public Service

Fast for Families

Cristian Avila

Lisa Sharon Harper

Rudy Lopez

Eliseo Medina

Dae Joong (DJ) Yoon

2013

26th Annual NCLR Capital Awards

Attorney General Kamala Harris
State of California

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
City of New York

NCLR Capital Award for Public Service

United We Dream

Jose Antonio Vargas

2012

25th Annual NCLR Capital Awards

Representative George Miller (D-CA)

Mayor Paul Bridges
(R-Uvalda, GA)

NCLR Capital Award for Public Service

Kids In Need of Defense (KIND)

2011

24th Annual NCLR Capital Awards

Representative Barney Frank (D-MA)

Representative Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL)

NCLR Capital Award for Public Service

Ozomatli

2010

23rd Annual NCLR Capital Awards

Senator Harry Reid (D-NV)

Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL)

NCLR Capital Award for Public Service

Beverly Robertson
President, National Civil Rights Museum

2009

22nd Annual NCLR Capital Awards

Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA)

Senator Mel Martinez (D-FL)

NCLR Capital Award for Public Service

Miami Worker’s Center

2008

21st Annual NCLR Capital Awards

Representative Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL)

Representative Hilda Solis (D-CA)

NCLR Capital Award for Public Service

Univision Communications, Inc.

Ya Es Hora ¡Ve y Vota!

2007

20th Annual NCLR Capital Awards

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC)

Representative Luis Gutiérrez (D-IL)

NCLR Capital Award for Public Service

His Eminence Roger Michael Cardinal Mahony
Archbishop of Los Angeles

2006

19th Annual NCLR Capital Awards

Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA)

Representative John A. Boehner (R-OH)

NCLR Capital Award for Public Service

Radio Tropical

2005

18th Annual NCLR Capital Awards

Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT)

Representative Chris Cannon (R-UT)

NCLR Capital Award for Public Service

Llano Grande Center

2004

17th Annual NCLR Capital Awards

Senator Richard G. Lugar (R-IN)

Senator Blanche L. Lincoln (D-AR)

NCLR Capital Award for Public Service

Representative John Lewis (D-GA)

2003

16th Annual NCLR Capital Awards

Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME)

Representative Robert Menendez (D-NJ)

NCLR Capital Award for Public Service

Walker Lee Evey
Former Director of the Phoenix Project 

2002

15th Annual NCLR Capital Awards

Senator Tom A. Daschle (D-SD)

Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS)

NCLR Capital Award for Public Service

Newsday

2001

14th Annual NCLR Capital Awards

Senator Harry Reid (D-NV)

Representative James T. Walsh (R-NY)

NCLR Capital Award for Public Service

Governor Tom Vilsack (D-IA)

2000

13th Annual NCLR Capital Awards

Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY)

Representative Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL)

NCLR Capital Award for Public Service‡

John Sampier
Former Mayor, Rogers, AR

1999

12th Annual NCLR Capital Awards §

Senator John McCain (R-AZ)

Representative Richard Gephardt (D-MO)

1998

11th Annual NCLR Congressional Awards

Senator Peter Domenici (R-MI)

Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

1997

10th Annual NCLR Congressional Awards

Senator Spencer Abraham (R-MI)

Senator Bob Graham (D-FL)

1996

9th Annual NCLR Congressional Awards

Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL)

Representative Patricia Schroeder (D-CO)

1995

8th Annual NCLR Congressional Awards

Representative Ronald D. Coleman (D-TX)

Representative Susan Molinari (R-NY)

1994

7th Annual NCLR Congressional Awards

Representative Don Edwards (D-CA)

Representative Constance A. Morella (R-MD)

1993

6th Annual NCLR Congressional Awards

Representative Joe Moakley (D-MA)

Representative Jose Serrano (D-NY)

1992

5th Annual NCLR Congressional Awards

Senator John C. Danforth (R-MO)

Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA)

1991

4th Annual NCLR Congressional Awards

Senator John H. Chafee (R-RI)

1990

3rd Annual NCLR Congressional Awards

Senator Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ)

1989

2nd Annual NCLR Congressional Awards

Representative Peter W. Rodino, Jr. (D-NJ)

1988

1st Annual NCLR Congressional Awards

Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)

Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT)

Senator John McCain (R-AZ)

Representative Steve Bartlett (R-TX)

Representative Howard L.
Berman (D-CA)

Representative Albert G.
Bustamante (D-TX)

Representative Hamilton Fish, Jr. (R-NY)

Representative Augustus F.
Hawkins (D-CA)

Representative Dale E. Kildee (D-MI)

Notes

* Name changed from NCLR Capital Awards

† Name changed from NCLR Capital Award for Public Service

‡ Name changed from NCLR Congressional Awards

§ Inaugural presentation

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