Every year, the World Consciousness Alliance Board selects as Benevolence Award recipients, worthy individuals born of compassion and Love, who exemplify a New Conscious Humanity by selflessly engaging in benevolent initiatives contributing to the betterment of the world. Through their gifts, talents and skills as entrepreneurs, artists, poets, musicians, founders, coordinators, visionary leaders… Whether locally, nationally, or internationally, they have imparted the highest of human values, and become change agents encouraging ahimsa, cooperative compassionate community life and harmonious existence ~ fostering loving acceptance of all of life’s diversity, thus ushering in a Renaissance of Humanity.
Sharon Schuster Bulova
Raising Consciousness through:
Faith Communities in Action and the Clergy and Leadership Council
For visionary leadership, fostering cross-cultural understanding and collaboration among faith communities and governmental agencies actively ushering in the Brotherhood of Humanity.
Ms. Bulova’s proudest accomplishment was envisioning cooperation between government agencies and the faith community and founded Faith Communities in Action and the Clergy and Leadership Council who established working committees to address Homelessness, Affordable Housing, Youth at Risk, Domestic Violence and Assistance for the Elderly.
Lobna “Luby“ Ismail
Raising Consciousness through:
Connecting Cultures
For visionary leadership in business, government, local and international communities promoting positive intercultural and interfaith engagement, ensuring respect for human diversity and reminding all, they are part of the Family of Humanity.
She is dedicated to breaking through barriers across cultures and faiths. Luby helped develop and launch 20,000 Dialogues an initiative between Muslim, Christians and Jews. She is a strong advocate in citizen diplomacy between international high school students and American families. Luby received the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Honoring the Achievements of Extraordinary Arab-American Women Award.
Mele Melton
Raising Consciousness through:
Culturfied International Children’s Festival
For being a visionary and founder of the “Culturfied International Children’s Festival” fostering cross-cultural understanding, encouraging children to see themselves as ‘World Citizens’! She formed the Culturfied Foundation, dedicated to increasing cultural awareness and creating new and better opportunities for DC-area students to be exposed to other world cultures in a positive and life-enhancing way.
Rev. David North
Raising Consciousness through:
Musical Arts
For a lifetime of Uplifting, Enhancing, Nurturing, and Empowering Interfaith Harmony and Peace Consciousness through composing, performing and directing music that touches the heart, encouraging personal transformation and the awareness we are one humanity.
The Rev. David K. North has been sharing his ministry in Word and Song for all of his life. David has been the Director of Mosaic Harmony Community Choir since 1996 and has produced, recorded, and performed on multiple recordings.
Prof. P.S. Perkins
Raising Consciousness through:
Language in the Arts
For fostering transformative communication across diverse communities and within the field of Creative Arts, enabling more understanding of human nature, ensuring experience of our commonalities and a celebration of diversity.
P.S. is a published author of creative fiction, poetry, prose as well as scholarly works discussing the scope of Human Communication in its various forms. P.S. has dedicated her professional career to Behavioral Communication health and Interpersonal and Intercultural Relations.
Ari Roth
Raising Consciousness through:
Theatre Arts
For courageously presenting plays that are thought-provoking, transformational and socially significant, that increase our understanding of the human condition, inspire us to be better than we are, and redeem our humanity.
Ari Roth is an American producer, playwright, educator, and Founding Artistic Director of Mosaic Theater Company of DC. He served as Artistic Director of Theater J for 18 years, building the company into the biggest, most progressive Jewish theater in the county, producing 129 productions and creating the annual festivals “Voices From a Changing Middle East” and “Locally Grown: Community Supported Art”.
Andy Shallal
Raising Consciousness through:
The Arts in Business
For being a change agent, using the power of “Art in Business” creating inspiring murals that move hearts and minds to a higher plane of consciousness, bringing about public awareness of the importance of peace building to make this a better world. He is the founder of Busboys and Poets and Eatonville Restaurant. Both restaurant concepts create an environment where racial and cultural connections are consciously uplifted spaces to feed the mind, body and soul and where art, culture and politics take center stage.
Dušan Kovačević
Raising Consciousness through:
The Arts
For being a visionary and founder of the Exit Festival and Exit Foundation, fostering peace, youth development and raising awareness on environmental protection through music and creative industries. Festivals’ key vision is to position the entire Balkan region as one of the most attractive destinations in the world for creative industries and youth tourism which has been recording incredible global growth for many years now and aid cultural development and promote better connectivity between people in this part of the world.
To read more about individual stories visit www.wca.earth/awards
