Award Recipients
In honor of the life and work of Dr. Barbara Chester
The Hopi Foundation established an award for outstanding clinicians/practitioners who treat victims of torture, their families and communities. In issuing this award, we hope to honor the worthy persons who undertake the difficult and often dangerous work of providing healing services in circumstances of torture. We hope also to call attention to such abuses directed against specific regions and communities, and draw worldwide support for prevention of torture and associated trauma.
Click on photo for a biographic sketch of the award recipient.
2013
Barbara Chester Award
Naasson Munyandamutsa,
Rwanda
2016
Barbara Chester Award
Diana Kordon,
Argentina
2019
Barbara Chester Award
Dr. Sana Hamzeh, Lebanon
Presented at award
ceremony in Polacca, AZ,
October 12, 2013.
Presented at award
ceremony in Moenkopi, AZ,
October 8, 2016.
Presented at award
ceremony in Moenkopi, AZ,
October 5, 2019.
2009
Barbara Chester Award
Mary Fabri, United States
2006
Barbara Chester Award
Alp Ayan, Turkey
2003
Barbara Chester Award
Allen Keller, United States
2001
Barbara Chester Award
Juan Almendares, Honduras
2000
Barbara Chester Award
Shari Eppel, Zimbabwe
Presented at award ceremony
in Flagstaff, Arizona on
October 3, 2009
.
Presented at award ceremony
in Tucson, Arizona on
October 14, 2006.
Presented at award ceremony at
Copenhagen, Denmark on
September 7, 2003.
Presented at award ceremony at
Homolovi State Park, Arizona on
September 15, 2001.
Presented at award ceremony
in Tucson, Arizona on
June 26, 2000.