Jane Jacobs Medal
L-to-R: Richard Kahan, Judith Rodin, Damaris Reyes, Mary Schmidt Campbell, and George Campbell on the grand stairwell of the new Thom Mayne building, built for The Cooper Union.
The Jane Jacobs Medal
The Jane Jacobs Medal is administered annually by the Municipal Art Society of New York (MAS) through a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. The Medal is awarded to two individuals each year whose work creates new ways of seeing and understanding New York City, challenges traditional assumptions and creatively uses the urban environment to make New York City a place of hope and expectation.
Previous years’ recipients include Damaris Reyes, Executive Director of Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES), Founder and CEO of the Urban Assembly, and Richard Kahan in 2009; Peggy Shepard, executive director and co-founder of West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. (WE ACT), and Alexie Torres-Fleming, founder of Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice (YMPJ) in 2008; and Barry Benepe of New York City’s Greenmarket program and Omar Freilla of Greenworker Cooperatives in the Bronx in 2007.
