Meet the 2011 Jane Jacob Medal Recipients and learn more about their innovative projects that build upon the work — and the spirit — of Jane Jacobs to revitalize urban communities for the people who live in them.
Tribeca Film Center, Lifetime Leadership Medal
Transportation Alternatives, New Ideas and Activism Medal
NYC Department of Transportation, New Ideas and Activism Medal
Joshua David and Robert Hammond, Co-Founders of Friends of the High Line
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, longtime and founding President of the Central Park Conservancy and current President of the Foundation for Landscape Studies.
Damaris Reyes, Executive Director of Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES)
Richard Kahan, Founder and CEO of the Urban Assembly.
Peggy Shepard, executive director and co-founder of West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. (WE ACT)
Alexie Torres-Fleming, Executive director and founder of Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice (YMP)
Barry Benepe, Co-Founder of Greenmarket
Omar Freilla, Founder of Green Worker Cooperatives
John D. Rockefeller, Sr., established The Rockefeller Foundation in 1913 to promote the well-being of humanity around the world.