2024 Awards process and timeline will be announced in Fall 2024.
The 2023 in-person celebration was hosted on Thursday, April 13, 2023 at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, MN. Tickets for the event were $15/person or purchase a table for your campus for $100 ($20 discount for a table of 8).
Event Schedule
- 1:30 pm – Check-In & Awards Sponsors Open House
- 2:00 pm – Presentation of Awards (snacks and refreshments will be offered)
- 3:00 pm – Keynote Speaker: Edwin Torres
- 3:30 pm – Meet the Awardees
- 4:00 pm – Networking (snacks and refreshments will be offered)
- 5:00 pm – Adjourn
Edwin Torres is a political strategist with nearly a decade of electoral campaign experience at local, state, and national levels. Edwin brings his unique upbringing as a DACA recipient, innovative ways of thinking, focus on community-centered solutions, and ability to build authentic relationships and coalitions to win historical campaigns. He has been at the forefront of Minnesota’s most recent historic election, serving as the Political Director for the re-election campaign of Governor Tim Walz and Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, which resulted in a DFL trifecta for the first time since 2012 and only the second time since 1983. As Vice President of Public Affairs at NewPublica, Edwin brings his passion, winning record, and relationships to deliver unassailable results.