Cristine Wilson Medal for
Equality and Justice Recipients
Governor Robert D. Ray —1982
Mary Louise Smith —1984
Dr. Sue Follon —1985
Dr. Patricia Geadelmann —1987
Minnette Doderer —1989
Lonabelle Kaplan "Kappie" Spencer —1990
Dr. Charles Hughes Bruner —1992
Louise Rosenfield Noun — 1993
Mary Molen Wiberg — 1994
Betty Talkington —1995
Maude Esther White — 1996
Naomi Christensen — 1997
Edna M. Griffin — 1998
Governor Terry E. Branstad — 1999
Suzanne O’Dea Schenken — 2000
Jane Elliott — 2001
Reverend Carlos Jayne — 2002
Rekha Basu — 2003
Marie C. Wilson — 2004
Susan C. Buckley — 2005
Jane Jones Turner Burleson — 2006
Marilyn O. Murphy — 2007
Dr. Kesho Y. Scott — 2008
Dr.
Kesho Scott is a public intellectual, teacher, fiction writer,
cultural critic and diversity trainer with a B.A. in Sociology
from Wayne State University, an M.A. in Sociology from the
University of Detroit, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from
the University of Iowa. She has lived in Iowa since 1983.
Her book Tight Spaces, a collection of autobiographical
stories she co-authored with Cherry Muhanji and Egyirba
High, won the American Book Award in 1988, has been translated
into Italian and Arabic, and has gone into several printings.
She has also written The Habit of Surviving: Black Women’s
Strategies for Life (Rutgers University Press, 1991) and
a memoir of Twenty Years of Unlearning Racism in the Heartland.
She has facilitated over 350 speeches/presentations and
workshops/trainings in diversity throughout Iowa in private,
corporate, educational and non-profit organizations. Her
autobiographical story and scholarly work continues in Scott’s
political and personal memoir of life and love in Ghana
in the 1970s and African-American Men’s Habit of Survival
at Grinnell College from 1950-2005. Scott has also taught,
lectured and toured extensively across the country and abroad,
and has made appearances on the Oprah Winfrey, Sonya Live
shows, as well as C-SPAN. Scott won a State Department Fulbright
to Ethiopia in 2001-2002, completed two tours of Semester
at Sea Shipboard Education Program and taught in Britain,
China, Ethiopia, Egypt, and Ghana. Her work as activist/scholar
and resource person to community groups, leaders and organizations
has earned her an “Iowan” name for helping us
all learn to unlearn our “-ISMS” and begin the
work of “embracing our differences.” She is
a Professor in Sociology and American Studies, past Chair
of those departments at Grinnell College and lives as a
citizen of the world. Scott is a change agent who follows
in the footsteps of African American women’s self-help
traditions embodied in the lives and social activism of
Harriet Tubman, Barbara Jordon and Audre Lorde.
Cristine Wilson Medal
for Equality and Justice Recipients
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