Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts
& Rear Admiral Susan Blumenthal, MD, MPA (ret)
Receive the 2022 Terezín Legacy Award, to be presented at the dinner following our 4 PM concert.
We proudly honor these outstanding people, as individuals and as a couple, for their dedication to and success in pursuing justice, healing, and human rights.
Edward J. Markey receives the 2022 Terezín Legacy Award especially for his work to reveal and deter genocide in Burma and to formally acknowledge the Armenian genocide. A consumer champion and national leader on human rights, energy, environmental protection, and telecommunications policy, Senator Markey has a prolific legislative record on major issues across the policy spectrum with a deep commitment to improving the lives of people in Massachusetts and our country. He has served as US Senator from Massachusetts since 2013 and amassed an impressive record of major legislative achievements in areas from climate change and energy policy to net neutrality and antitrust regulation, nuclear non-proliferation, consumer safety, Alzheimer's disease, LGBTQ and women’s rights, COVID-19 vaccine equity, internet privacy, disaster relief, addressing the opioid epidemic, housing, immigration and more. He is co-author of the Green New Deal and serves as the Chair of the Senate Task Force on Climate Change; the Chairman of the Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific and International Cybersecurity; and as Chair of the Subcommittee on Clean Energy, Climate and Nuclear Safety. From 1976-2013, he was as a member of the US House of Representatives, serving as Chair of the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet and Chair of the Select Committee on Global Warming and Energy Independence, where he convened more than 100 hearings on the climate crisis and was a global leader in bringing this issue to public attention.
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Rear Admiral Susan J. Blumenthal, MD, MPA (ret)receives the 2022 Terezín Legacy Award for her commitment to healing and health equality. She is a leading national and global health expert who served as US Assistant Surgeon General and the First Deputy Assistant Secretary for Women’s Health where she worked to expose the inequities in women's health and developed major initiatives to move these issues to the forefront of our nation's health care agenda. She was also a White House Health Advisor and Chief of Behavioral Medicine and Head of the Suicide Research Unit at the National Institutes of Health. She currently serves as a Visiting Professor at the MIT Media Lab, as the Director of BeattheVirus.org, focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, the senior medical advisor at amfAR (The Foundation for AIDS Research), a Clinical Professor at Tufts and Georgetown University Schools of Medicine and Director of the Health Innovations Lab at New America, where she is exploring strategies to apply technology to advance health. Dr. Blumenthal was the host and medical director of an award-winning television series on women’s health, and she established the National Centers of Excellence in Women’s Health program and the “Missiles to Mammograms” initiative that transferred CIA, NASA and DOD technology to improve breast cancer detection. Rear Admiral Blumenthal has received numerous awards and medals including honorary doctorates for her pioneering contributions to improving health and eliminating health disparities.
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previous recipients
2021: CDC Director Rochelle Walensky and survivor and musician Simon Gronowski
2020: Secretary Madeleine Albright, and psychiatrist and survivor Anna Ornstein
2019: Norman L. Eisen, former U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic
2018: Barbara and Steve Grossman
2017: Khizr Khan, civil rights advocate and Gold Star Parent
2016: Bernie and Sue Pucker
2015: Carol and Joe Reich
2014: "Monuments Man" Harry Ettlinger
2013: Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick
2012: Painter Samuel Bak
2011: Edith and Löet Velmans
2010: Dr. Robert J. Mayer
2020: Secretary Madeleine Albright, and psychiatrist and survivor Anna Ornstein
2019: Norman L. Eisen, former U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic
2018: Barbara and Steve Grossman
2017: Khizr Khan, civil rights advocate and Gold Star Parent
2016: Bernie and Sue Pucker
2015: Carol and Joe Reich
2014: "Monuments Man" Harry Ettlinger
2013: Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick
2012: Painter Samuel Bak
2011: Edith and Löet Velmans
2010: Dr. Robert J. Mayer