Virtual Immigrant Liberty Awards - Honoring Patricia Medige
Patricia Medige accepts the 2020 Lifetime Achievement Immigrant Liberty Award at the 15th Annual Immigrant Liberty Awards event, benefiting RMIAN.
Presenting the Lifetime Achievement Award to Patricia Medige
For 20 years — two decades! — Pat Medige has been the leader of RMIAN’s Board of Directors, a resolute but gentle hand on the tiller, always with compass in hand and a keen sense of where our North Star lies. Pat has guided RMIAN from its early days as a band of volunteers through the broadening of its service net to include RMIAN’s programs for children and for social services, and now through today’s urgent moment, when the lives of immigrants — and of so many of the vulnerable in our communities — are in peril. Through her constant willingness to ask the right questions at the right time, to pay attention to the details that matter, and above all her willingness to do the hard and often unsung work that needs doing, Pat Medige has not only transformed the social justice movement in Colorado and beyond, but also brought light and hope to so many people, families, and communities.
- Hiroshi Motomura, RMIAN co-founder, Board Member, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
Patricia Medige, a RMIAN co-founder and President of RMIAN's Board of Directors, has represented low wage workers and immigrant crime victims with Colorado nonprofit organizations since 1995. In 2014 she was appointed to the Colorado Human Trafficking Council, established under HB 14-1273. Honors include: co-recipient of the Freedom Network’s Paul and Sheila Wellstone Award recognizing outstanding anti-trafficking work (2009) and the AILA Colorado Chapter Outstanding Member Award (2016).
RMIAN Launches Endowment Fund
In honor of RMIAN’s 20th anniversary, and during its weeklong celebration of the 2020 Immigrant Liberty Awards, themed “Here to Stay,” RMIAN is delighted to announce the launch of the RMIAN Endowment Fund. This Fund will be housed at Rose Community Foundation. RMIAN’s endowment fund is designed to create a permanent, self-sustaining, and reliable source of funding to support RMIAN’s work long into the future.
"RMIAN's Endowment Fund represents the strength of our organization and is an announcement to the greater community that RMIAN is truly here to stay," says RMIAN Board member Stephanie Aretz, part of the RMIAN Endowment Fund planning team.
“Rose Community Foundation is honored to be partnering with RMIAN and stewarding an endowment fund that will help ensure justice for immigrants long into the future,” states Amelia Fink, Director of Nonprofit Funds and Endowments at Rose Community Foundation.
If you are interested in supporting RMIAN’s work for future generations and ensuring RMIAN is HERE TO STAY as a stalwart for immigrant justice long into the future, please contact RMIAN.
