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CRITERIA FOR THE VISIONARY AWARD: EVAW International’s Visionary Award is designed to recognize individuals for their vision and leadership in ending violence against women. Recipients are thus honored for their individual vision and dedication, rather than the work of an organization. The award is given to an individual who has advanced the field through research or practice, which has increased public awareness of the problem of violence against women and improved the response of criminal justice and community systems. Recipients of the Visionary Award must have victim sensitivity and offender accountability at the center of their professional mission, and they must have demonstrated a willingness to face existing problems and gaps in service and respond by designing, implementing, and evaluating innovative solutions. Because this type of vision, leadership, and innovation is likely to have its detractors - - both within society and in the professional disciplines -- the award is designed to recognize the courage of recipients to challenge conventional wisdom and assume the personal and professional risks involved in pursuing these goals.
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| Eighth Visionary Award |
| Presented to Lt. Mark Wynn |
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| For your vision in confronting the devastating problem of family violence, and your leadership in inspiring others to join the cause. Your tireless efforts to improve our response to violence have helped to pursue justice for countless victims and hold more perpetrators accountable. |
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| Award to be presented at the International Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, and Stalking Conference, held April 11-13, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. |
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| Seventh Visionary Award |
| Presented to Mary P. Koss, Ph.D. |
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| For your vision in creating new fields of knowledge, your leadership in forging new directions, and your dedication to bridging the divide between research and practice. Because of your tireless efforts, we are better able to understand and serve the many needs of sexual assault victims in our communities. |
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| Award presented at the International Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, and Stalking Conference, April 19-21, 2010, Intercontinental Buckhead, Atlanta, Georgia |
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| Sixth Visionary Award |
| Presented to Teresa Scalzo, JD |
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| For your vision, leadership, and dedication to the cause of successfully prosecuting cases of sexual assault, particularly those committed by someone known to the victim and/or facilitated with drugs and alcohol. Your tireless efforts to improve the prosecution of difficult cases have helped us to pursue justice for countless victims and hold more perpetrators accountable. |
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| Award to be presented at the International Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, and Stalking Conference, May 18-20, 2009, Anaheim, California |
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| Fifth Visionary Award |
| Presented to Dr. Marc LeBeau |
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| For your vision, leadership, and dedication to the cause of properly investigating and prosecuting sexual assault crimes, particularly those facilitated with drugs or alcohol. Because of your tireless efforts to improve our nation’s response to these difficult cases, you have helped to pursue justice for countless victims and hold more perpetrators accountable. |
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| Award presented at the International Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, and Stalking Conference, March 31-April 2, 2008, New Orleans, Louisiana |
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| Fourth Visionary Award |
| Presented to Anne Ream |
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| For your tireless work on behalf of sexual assault survivors—particularly to ensure that we hear their voices and see their faces—so their experiences can help to create positive change in our communities. |
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| Presented at the International Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, and Stalking Conference, April 16-18, 2007, Houston, Texas |
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| Third Visionary Award |
| Presented to Dr. David Lisak |
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| For your research on the causes and consequences of interpersonal violence. In particular, the motives and characteristics of “undetected” rapists – men who rape but are never prosecuted. |
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| Presented at the International Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, and Stalking Conference, October 3-5, 2005 Baltimore, Maryland |
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| Second Visionary Award |
| Presented to The Honorable Bill Lockyer |
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| For your work to eliminate the DNA backlog in the State of California. You not only committed the necessary funds, you did so through a thoughtful allocation of resources, enhancing the effectiveness of law enforcement in solving the most heinous of crimes. Our communities are safer today because of your efforts. |
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| Presented at the International Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Conference, April 23-25, 2003, San Diego, California |
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| First Visionary Award |
| Presented to The Honorable Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. |
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| For initiating landmark federal legislation to end violence against women and for dedication and longstanding commitment to policies that further these goals |
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| Presented at the International Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Conference, March 13-16, 2002, San Diego, California |
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