Brandi Best, Lucy Breidenthal and Ricardo Broadway, Princeton High School seniors, are this year’s recipients of the 10th annual Interfaith Unity Awards sponsored by Not In Our Town.
From the John Witherspoon Middle School, four students Talya NaKash, Wajdi Mallat, Andrew Grunther and Jordan Schonberger were honored for their work on Darfur.
A reception was held in their honor recently at the Carl A. Fields Center of Princeton University. The awards will be presented at the school awards ceremonies.
Not In Our Town, an interfaith community organization seeking racial and economic justice and educational equity in Princeton, sponsors this award to recognize and encourage students who serve as models for their peers in working towards greater understanding between diverse peoples and for a peaceful, healthy and safe school environment.
All three of the high school students took an active role in GAIA (Growing Up Accepted in America,) a community action program that deals with diversity and eliminating prejudice throughout the world.
Brandi and Ricardo took leadership roles in MSAN (the Minority Student Achievement Network,) a national organization which researches the disparity in achievement between minority and white students and works to close that gap, and Ricardo was chosen to host one of the workshops at last fall’s convention in Wisconsin.
The middle school pupils worked throughout the year to educate the school and wider community about the serious conditions in Darfur, and through several fundraising efforts were able to donate funds to Doctors Without Borders for its work in Darfur.
School Superintendent Judith Wilson spoke at the reception, adding her support for the work done by all the recipients.

