We’re Looking Forward to Seeing You at the 2024 Burton Awards!
The Immigrant Legal Resource Center is delighted to announce our 2024 Phillip Burton Immigration & Civil Rights Awards celebration. The ILRC is looking forward to welcoming you again to the Hotel Nikko in downtown San Francisco on Thursday, May 23 to celebrate the achievements in the immigration law and immigrant rights fields and to laud the impact of our 2024 Phillip Burton Immigration & Civil Rights honorees.
You can support the 2024 Burton Awards by selecting a level, buying tickets, or making a donation below.
Thursday, May 23, 2024
Reception & Hosted Bar 5:30PM - 7:00PM
Dinner & Awards Program 7:00PM - 9:00PM
Hotel Nikko
222 Mason Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
RSVP by Thursday, May 16
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This year, the ILRC is proud to honor the following recipients:
The ILRC is delighted to honor the outstanding and impactful work of the African Advocacy Network (AAN) with the 2024 Phillip Burton Award for Advocacy. AAN is a San Francisco-based nonprofit founded in 2009 to serve the growing Diaspora of African and Afro-Caribbean immigrants. AAN provides immigration legal services, case management, and social integration services based on a unique Cultural Brokering model.
AAN couples these programs with experienced and trained linguistic capacity in more than ten languages that span the African continent.
Driven by their desire to serve vulnerable refugees and immigrants, AAN acts in collaboration with community partners, individuals, faith-based groups, and advocates to amplify their impact to ensure the equity of all voices and sustain their mission.
Hillary Ronen was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in November 2016, representing District 9 – the Mission, Bernal Heights, and Portola neighborhoods in the southeastern section of the city. Supervisor Ronen is a graduate of UC Berkeley School of Law. As an attorney, her practice focused on worker rights and immigration law at the San Francisco nonprofit law firm, La Raza Centro Legal. As Supervisor, Hillary has authored scores of impactful legislation including Mental Health SF – legislation creating a system of care for individuals suffering from mental illness or drug addiction disorder, the Student Success Fund to prompt and fund innovative interventions to eliminate the opportunities gap at SFUSD public schools, and the Office of Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Prevention (SHARP) to improve systems that have historically failed survivors of sexual assault and rape. Finally, Hillary is perhaps most proud of ushering in over 2800 units of permanent affordable housing in District 9 throughout her tenure.
The Nancy Pelosi Award for Policy recipient to be announced soon.
If you have any questions about the 2024 Burton Awards, please contact Cynthia Tirado Housel, Director of Leadership Giving, at chousel@ilrc.org.