On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Sullivan Ballou Fund, we are delighted to present to you a Sullivan Ballou Award of$1000.
You are just the kind of person the Sullivan Ballou Fund seeks to recognize and affirm. We know of your long and distinguished career as a public defender at the Penitentiary ofMarilia in Brazil, where you handled petitions and appeals for a caseload of about I 000 men. During your term in the United States as a Humphrey Fellow, you have used your experience and talents to make imp01tant contributions to human rights work and education here. Your class work has included a probing discussion about prison conditions, and a very useful paper on human rights budgeting. You have networked with corrections officials here and will be conducting a training session for prison officials in the near future. Most significant, you have produced a documentary on the prison system which has been showing on Minnesota Public Television. In this country with the largest prison population in the world, no issue could benefit more from your broad perspective and expertise. These are noteworthy contributions for someone far from home who is here for the limited term of an academic fellowship. But that is what happens when an enthusiastic and able person gives to others from her heart. In this way you perfectly embody the finest qualities of Sullivan Ballou. We are honored to get to know you and to learn from your example. We hope this award will in some small way affinn for you the rightness of your path and the value of your efforts. We would appreciate if you would let us know in the coming months how you used this award and how it affected you.
Congratulations! Elissa Peterson Bruce Peterson, Founding Members.