2019 Bassett Award Winners

Below are the recipients of the 2019 Bassett Award for Community Engagement:

Calvin Bell, III, Pennsauken, NJ

Maya Canady, Washington, DC

Marissa Castillo, Saginaw, MI

Rachel Clinton, Manhattan Beach, CA

Catherine Collins, Hinsdale, IL

Henry Cruz Reyes, Durham, NC

Selam Desta, Portland, ME

Hannah Edelstein, Brownsville, TX

Sylver Garcia, Wiggins, MS

Makayla Hieb, Albuquerque, NM

Catherine Martin, Santa Rosa, CA

Maria Mendoza, Vienna, VA

Matthew Merritt, Chattanooga, TN

Bianca Murray, Los Angeles, CA

Rhea Varma, Smyrna, GA

Learn more about them by reading the award announcement from April 2019 and the description of the award ceremony that took place in September 2019. Winners received a copy of David Blight's Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.