The Bill Grace Leadership Legacy Event: Acting with Courage for a just society
CEL is humbled to recognize Cindy Domingo and the late Garry Owens as this year's recipients of the Bill Grace Leadership Legacy Award.
Join us in-person or virtually as we celebrate our awardees and our 33rd year!
About the Recipients
Cindy Domingo and Garry Owens's organizing and leadership has positively impacted their local community and abroad. Their social justice activism and influence can be found locally in the Seattle area and globally. Join us on August 17th to celebrate and be inspired by their story. Below are their bios from Legacy of Equality, Leadership and Organizing. You can register here.
Cindy Domingo
Cindy Domingo has been an activist for almost 50 years using her skills as an organizer, writer, political strategist, mentor, public servant, and speaker to create social change in the world. She first became involved with LELO through the Alaska Cannery Workers Association where she worked compiling information and statistics for the landmark class action lawsuits where the cannery workers sued the Alaska canning industry.
Cindy’s political involvement began when she joined the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP), the only radical Filipino organization in the 1970s, and began organizing in the Filipino community. Today, Cindy continues to build international solidarity with the Philippines as a member of Akbayan North America.
Cindy has also spent over 20 years working to lift the 60+ year-old US blockade against Cuba and normalize US-Cuba relations through her work with US Women and Cuba Collaboration and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom’s Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance Issues Committee. Cindy now serves on the Campaign to End the Occupation of Western Sahara, a new fiscally sponsored LELO project.
Garry Owens
Garry Owens was a worker/intellectual who joined the LELO board in 1991 and served as a facilitator for internal affairs for many years. He was a Seattleite from birth and a recent retiree from 30 years of public service. He credits his family for teaching him to read; empathy for all people regardless of color, creed or national origin; appreciation and respect for non-human species, and the courage to travel to borders beyond. He came to LELO with a portfolio of progressive and radical thought and deed. As a Vietnam era US Army veteran in 1967 he became acutely aware of US government hegemony. He was a founding member of the UW Black Student Union and Seattle Chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1968. As a student at Hampshire College in the 1970’s he taught 5 year olds at the iconic Che-Lumumba School for Truth at UMass in Amherst, MA. During his long sojourn with LELO he has traveled to serve as agent of solidarity in Cuba, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa and throughout the United States. Comrades alive and past continue to inspire and support his regimen for study and critical thinking. He also credited the leaders and thinkers of the global national liberation struggles of the 60’s and 70’s as key to understanding the role of the common worker to study and build solidarity without borders. He carried a discreet list of revolutionary heroes and heroines who defer popularity for the sake of an analysis that demands liberation on all fronts, especially the Global South. He was working on a project that would help to eliminate the reality of 5000 children dying every day from drinking dirty water.
You can view more of Garry Owens's life and accomplishments in the Seattle Times article by Naomi Ishisaka on October 18, 2022.
Join us on August 17th to celebrate and be inspired by their story. You can register here.
Date: Thursday, August 17, 2023
Time: 6:00PM-7:15PM PST
Location: Southside Commons
Address: 3518 S Edmonds St, Seattle, WA 98118
Virtual: Link found on on receipt
Cost: no cost, donations are welcomed
You and your guests are invited to celebrate our community leaders! Virtual link is found on the receipt.
Here are ways to support the event (click the link to learn more):
Cindy Domingo and Garry Owens's organizing and leadership has positively impacted their local community and abroad. Their social justice activism and influence can be found locally in the Seattle area and globally. Join us on August 17th to celebrate and be inspired by their story. Below are their bios from Legacy of Equality, Leadership and Organizing. You can register here.
Cindy Domingo
Cindy Domingo has been an activist for almost 50 years using her skills as an organizer, writer, political strategist, mentor, public servant, and speaker to create social change in the world. She first became involved with LELO through the Alaska Cannery Workers Association where she worked compiling information and statistics for the landmark class action lawsuits where the cannery workers sued the Alaska canning industry.
Cindy’s political involvement began when she joined the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP), the only radical Filipino organization in the 1970s, and began organizing in the Filipino community. Today, Cindy continues to build international solidarity with the Philippines as a member of Akbayan North America.
Cindy has also spent over 20 years working to lift the 60+ year-old US blockade against Cuba and normalize US-Cuba relations through her work with US Women and Cuba Collaboration and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom’s Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance Issues Committee. Cindy now serves on the Campaign to End the Occupation of Western Sahara, a new fiscally sponsored LELO project.
Garry Owens
Garry Owens was a worker/intellectual who joined the LELO board in 1991 and served as a facilitator for internal affairs for many years. He was a Seattleite from birth and a recent retiree from 30 years of public service. He credits his family for teaching him to read; empathy for all people regardless of color, creed or national origin; appreciation and respect for non-human species, and the courage to travel to borders beyond. He came to LELO with a portfolio of progressive and radical thought and deed. As a Vietnam era US Army veteran in 1967 he became acutely aware of US government hegemony. He was a founding member of the UW Black Student Union and Seattle Chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1968. As a student at Hampshire College in the 1970’s he taught 5 year olds at the iconic Che-Lumumba School for Truth at UMass in Amherst, MA. During his long sojourn with LELO he has traveled to serve as agent of solidarity in Cuba, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa and throughout the United States. Comrades alive and past continue to inspire and support his regimen for study and critical thinking. He also credited the leaders and thinkers of the global national liberation struggles of the 60’s and 70’s as key to understanding the role of the common worker to study and build solidarity without borders. He carried a discreet list of revolutionary heroes and heroines who defer popularity for the sake of an analysis that demands liberation on all fronts, especially the Global South. He was working on a project that would help to eliminate the reality of 5000 children dying every day from drinking dirty water.
You can view more of Garry Owens's life and accomplishments in the Seattle Times article by Naomi Ishisaka on October 18, 2022.
Join us on August 17th to celebrate and be inspired by their story. You can register here.
Date: Thursday, August 17, 2023
Time: 6:00PM-7:15PM PST
Location: Southside Commons
Address: 3518 S Edmonds St, Seattle, WA 98118
Virtual: Link found on on receipt
Cost: no cost, donations are welcomed
You and your guests are invited to celebrate our community leaders! Virtual link is found on the receipt.
Here are ways to support the event (click the link to learn more):
Legacy Event support the following CEL programs:
Values-Based Leadership Stewards ProgramWhat does it mean to share the rock? The Stewards Program takes participants on a deep and transformative two-part journey -- the internal work of personal growth and development and the external work of social action.
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Restorative, Inclusive School Environment Initiative (RISE)The Restorative, Inclusive School Environments (RISE) Initiative seeks to build youth-adult partnerships and community-based collective leadership to create and foster the necessary conditions for all students to succeed.
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Stewards Circle
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