Justice is Medicine Dinner including Awardees and Keynote Speaker Jo Harjo
Description: We will present our Advocacy Warrior, Community Keeper, and Guardian of Justice Awards. There will also be a special presentation by celebrated author and former Poet Laureate of the United States Joy Harjo.
Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee Nation. She served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2019-2022 and is winner of the Poetry Society of America’s 2024 Frost Medal, Yale’s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, and was recently honored with a National Humanities Medal.
