Capital Awards and Congressional Awards Honorees
Capital Awards and Congressional Awards
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
Annunciation 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