Five finalists were awarded $10K each: Katie Endicott (West Virginia teacher’s strike organizer); Sarah Mardini and Yusra Mardini (refugee activists and Olympians); Tara Parrish (led and defended the Springfield Interfaith Sanctuary Coalition) and Deborah Swackhamer (led the EPA’s Board of Scientific Counselors and was pressured to change her testimony to whitewash Trump policies).