2022 Welcoming Fort Wayne Award Nominees

Thank you to the community supporters who nominated so many wonderful individuals and organizations in our community. Each nominee has made a difference for our multicultural community and we are honored to acknowledge them all for their accomplishments.

We will award 3 recipients representing each category at the Welcoming Fort Wayne Awards, 9 a.m. Friday, Sept. 16, doors open at 8:30 a.m. The event is free and open to the public. Register here.

2022 Nominees

Lifetime Achiever

  • Dorothy Kittaka, FAME Festival and Fort Wayne Sister Cities

  • Cho Too, Catholic Charities

  • Gamal Hernandez, Bowen Center

  • Howard Chapman, Fort Wayne Sister Cities

  • Jeanne Taylor, Fort Wayne Community Schools, retired

  • Meg Distler, St. Joseph Community Health Foundation

  • Terrence Gerald Doran, Three Rivers Arts Center for Kids (TRACK) founder

Emerging Leader

  • Hthamay Paw, Amani Family Services

  • Devota Masasu, Bowen Center

  • Mieko Yamada, Purdue Fort Wayne

Welcoming Organization

  • Lutheran Agency for Missions to Burma  (LAMB)

  • Burmese Muslim Education and Community Center

  • Neighborhood Health Clinic, Inc.

  • Three Rivers Arts Center for Kids (TRACK)

Thank you to our Selection Committee

  • Malak El-Taleb, Interpreter

  • Fernando Zapari, El Mexicano Newspaper

  • Antoinette Francher-Donald, Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne

  • Pone Vongphachanh, City of New Haven

"Amani" :  peace (Kiswahili), aspirations or wishes (Arabic)

Amani Family Services is a 501(c)(3) organization. Services funded by Amani are provided to all persons without regard to age, gender, race, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, immigration status, or any other barriers to participation.
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