Paul Bartlett Ré Peace Prize

Paul Bartlett Ré Peace Prize
The Paul Bartlett Ré Peace Prize is permanently endowed and administered by the University of New Mexico Foundation to promote peace and harmony. Its purpose is to fund and further the recipient's work, or to inspire new interpretations of peace based on Paul Ré’s art and philosophy, such as his Touchable Art for the Blind and Sighted exhibit.The prestigious prize package includes a monetary check to support the recipient's work, a 20" x 26" framed commemorative artwork created by Paul Ré, and inscribed, signed copies of his acclaimed books, The Dance of the Pencil and the award-winning Art, Peace, and Transcendence: Réograms that Elevate and Unite.Eligibility for the prize was extended in 2012 to include all 160,000 UNM alumni worldwide, ensuring the continuation of Ré's legacy, which finds its greatest reward in moving people toward peace and fulfillment.
| Sl | Name | Country | Flag | Year | Awarded For |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | Katie Stone | United States | 2024 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 42 | Charlene Delaunay | United States | 2024 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 41 | Selma Ćatović Hughes | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2024 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 40 | Mario Del Angel Guevara | Mexico | 2024 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 39 | Kelly Luzzi | United States | 2024 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 38 | Kathy Powers | United States | 2022 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 37 | Farhan Wilayat Butt | Pakistan | 2022 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 36 | Ken Carpenter | United States | 2022 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 35 | Youn Ja Johnson-Blanchard | United States | 2022 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 34 | Sandra Wasko-Flood | United States | 2022 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 33 | Ramiro Jordan | United States | 2022 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 32 | Reilly White | United States | 2022 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 31 | Sarah Bird | United States | 2020 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 30 | Robert Hitchcock | United States | 2020 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 29 | Gerald Vizenor | United States | 2020 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 28 | Frank Martinez | United States | 2020 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 27 | Christine Glidden | United States | 2020 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 26 | Mark Stone | United States | 2020 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 25 | Beth Poquette Drews | United States | 2020 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 24 | Frank Blazquez | United States | 2020 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 23 | Wild Friends Program at the UNM School of Law | United States | 2020 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 22 | Myrriah Gómez | United States | 2020 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 21 | Dana Tai Soon Burgess | United States | 2018 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 20 | Hakim Bellamy | United States | 2018 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 19 | Anthony Fleg | United States | 2018 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 18 | Bridgit Luján | United States | 2018 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 17 | Jami Porter Lara | United States | 2018 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 16 | David R. Muñoz | United States | 2016 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 15 | William M. Brown III | United States | 2016 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 14 | Denise Elia Chávez | United States | 2016 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 13 | Vincent Barrett | United States | 2016 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 12 | Carolina Belmares-Ortega | United States | 2016 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 11 | Peter Nardini | Scotland | 2014 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 10 | Lynne Jackson and Mike Palter | United States | 2014 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 9 | Rudolfo Anaya | United States | 2014 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 8 | William M. Brown | United States | 2012 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 7 | Peace Talks Radio | United States | 2012 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 6 | Arti Prasad | India | 2010 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 5 | Peace Talks Radio | United States | 2010 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 4 | Stephen W. Littlejohn | United States | 2007 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 3 | Arti Prasad | India | 2007 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 2 | William Gross | Mexico | 2007 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding | |
| 1 | Hakim Bellamy | Mexico | 2007 | for demonstrated notable achievements in promoting world peace and understanding |

Paul Bartlett Ré Peace Prize Laureates (2030 ~ 2021)

Katie Stone
Paul Bartlett Ré Peace Prize 2024
Katie Stone is the Executive Director of the New Mexico nonprofit, The Children’s Hour Inc., and was a volunteer producer of The Children’s Hour for more than 17 years at KUNM before the show went into national syndication. For two decades, Stone has been working to foster peace, understanding, and empathy among young radio listeners, as the founder and executive producer of "The Children's Hour," a public radio program designed for kids, but valid for any age, airs in 150 stations reaching an estimated 750,000 listeners. In her nomination, Katie states, “The Children's Hour has been a labor of love, aiming to make complex global issues accessible and relatable to children.”

Charlene Delaunay
Paul Bartlett Ré Peace Prize 2024
Charlene Delaunay, BA ’78, after earning her degree in Elementary Education she went on to teach for Albuquerque Public Schools, in Taiwan for the US State Department, and for the Navajo and Zuni Tribes. She is an award-winning writer and member of the Northern Arapaho tribe. For more than 40 years, Delaunay has written, taught, and promoted issues relating to civil rights, community outreach, and indigenous cultural traditions and practices.

Selma Ćatović Hughes
Paul Bartlett Ré Peace Prize 2024
Selma Ćatović Hughes, BA ’00, has worked in architecture and design for more than 20 years. After earning her undergraduate degree in Architecture from the University of New Mexico, Ćatović Hughes developed a unique multidisciplinary artistic practice that she has presented at conferences in the UK, Finland, Luxembourg, Poland, Lithuania, Bosnia, Spain, and the US. Her mixed media art projects dealing with difficult histories, disputed territories, identity, heritage, and intergenerational memory in post-conflict society have been recognized through awards, research grants, and several academic publications.
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Mario Del Angel Guevara
Paul Bartlett Ré Peace Prize 2024
Mario Del Angel Guevara, MA’ 17, PhD ’23, after earning his master’s degree in Spanish, he was named assistant professor and co-director of the Curanderismo Traditional Medicine Program at the University of New Mexico. He earned a PhD in Spanish with a Concentration in Hispanic Linguistics. Del Angel Guevara was instrumental in creating and running the Summer institute on Traditional Medicine Without Borders that has drawn thousands of students and health professionals worldwide to learn curandismo. He has created free Spanish and English courses on coursera.org that have enrolled over 40,000 students from different countries who learn how to become their own healer and learn to empower themselves using elements of nature for minor illnesses and ancestral concepts that support the healing of emotional distress such as grief, stress, and anxiety. Del Angel Guevara was the recipient of the Sara Belle Brown Award for Excelling Community Service, November 2022 and was appointed a member of the Board for Human Rights for the City of Albuquerque, December 2022.

Kelly Luzzi
Paul Bartlett Ré Peace Prize 2024
Kelly Luzzi, BFA ’17, MFA ’20, is a Native New Mexican who was raised in a household marked by poverty, violence, and childhood trauma. This difficult upbringing helped to shape her educational experience, where she came to regard school as a safe place. Now, as a teacher at Cibola High School, Luzzi created her empathetic but firm teaching style born out of her challenging background. She created a “classroom mediation” program to dialog with students about challenging issues including racism, homophobia, and violence. Her program focuses on creating a community among her students, fostering an environment where everyone is safe from bullying and oppression, allowing students to focus on learning and positive social interactions.

Kathy Powers
Paul Bartlett Ré Peace Prize 2022
Kathy Powers, Ph.D.
A nationally renowned scholar for her work on some of the most pressing issues facing us globally. As an Associate Professor in the UNM Department of Political Science and Affiliated Faculty in the UNM School of Law, Powers’ research focuses on the design of international institutions and law with respect to human rights, restorative justice, trade, and war. She has received numerous awards and accolades for her work on reparations within the Black Community and post-WWII reparations and transitional justice including a research fellowship from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Powers is the voice that provides informed and hopeful insights for how we can collectively imagine a better and more just community for all. Her résumé includes Wilson Center Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Washington, D.C. and External Faculty Member, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Dr. Powers is receiving this award for her extensive work in human rights and restorative justice.

Ken Carpenter
Paul Bartlett Ré Peace Prize 2022
Ken Carpenter, Ph.D.
A retired UNM Director of International Programs and Adjunct Faculty, activist, educator, and author, has a lifelong commitment to nonviolence both abroad and in the United States. Carpenter has taught courses in international studies, peace and justice studies, human rights, and security studies, and created the UNM Community Safety and Human Security Program which prepares students for public service. Dr. Carpenter is receiving this award for his contributions to peace and environmental activism.

Youn Ja Johnson-Blanchard
Paul Bartlett Ré Peace Prize 2022
Youn Ja Johnson-Blanchard
UNM English Faculty. Johnson is a 3D artist, writer and educator of peace who has brought people together teaching them an appreciation for our common humanity and spirituality. Her work fuses East and West in the themes of peace, power of nature, the common ground of humanity and the overlap of religious traditions. Her collections are in the Republic of Korea, and the US, including “Tribute to Mother Earth” at UNM, Albuquerque Museum Collections, and Murphy Veteran’s Hospital in NM. Johnson-Blanchard is receiving this award for her art installations relating to peace.

Sandra Wasko-Flood
Paul Bartlett Ré Peace Prize 2022
Sandra Wasko-Flood is an artist, poet, and teacher whose work is deeply committed to humanitarian efforts and peace promotion. She is the founder of the national non-profit organization Living Labyrinths for Peace.Through this organization and her contemplative art, Wasko-Flood actively fosters both internal and external peace. Her new book, The Labyrinth Path to Light and Peace: Art and Poetry by Sandra Wasko Flood, exemplifies her approach, which invites readers on a journey of contemplation using sacred archetypal images. She advocates for the union of "higher intelligence uniting with the spirit of a compassionate heart," emphasizing that global peace starts with inner peace within each individual. Her creative and dedicated work promotes harmony and peace by encouraging thoughtful living, courtesy, respect, and friendship toward others, viewing a life integrated with peace as a profound and practical work of art.

Ramiro Jordan
Paul Bartlett Ré Peace Prize 2022
Dr. Ramiro Jordan is a pioneering figure in the field of Peace Engineering (PEng), which he defines as the intentional application of science, technology, engineering, and cultural principles to directly promote and support peace.As a scientist, educator, and entrepreneur, Dr. Jordan champions the idea that engineering must actively contribute to a world of prosperity, sustainability, social equity, and transparency. His work focuses on integrating these principles into education, research, and practice.He is a founding member of the Peace Engineering Consortium, a global collective that develops and disseminates the knowledge and tools necessary to influence worldwide peace efforts. His initiatives, such as creating Peace Engineering academic programs, emphasize collaboration, cultural sensitivity, and the use of technology to address global challenges affecting human and environmental well-being, earning him a Career Achievement Peace Prize.

Reilly White
Paul Bartlett Ré Peace Prize 2022
Reilly S. White, Ph.D., is recognized for his contributions to humanitarianism and peace through education and community service, specifically focusing on vulnerable populations.As an Associate Dean and Finance Professor at the University of New Mexico (UNM), Dr. White was honored with the 2022 Paul Bartlett Ré Emerging Promotor of Peace Award for his tangible work in the community. His primary effort is leading a team of students to provide financial literacy education and mentorship to immigrants and refugees from diverse backgrounds. This work is fundamentally humanitarian, aiming to foster social and economic stability.To support these efforts, Dr. White and his team co-authored a free, 76-page Financial Literacy Handbook, which has been translated into multiple languages, including Spanish, Arabic, and Dari, to help newcomers succeed in their new homes. This educational work promotes peace by addressing a root cause of instability and conflict—economic marginalization—and empowering individuals through understanding and integration.

Paul Bartlett Ré Peace Prize Laureates (2020 ~ 2011)

Sarah Bird
Paul Bartlett Ré Peace Prize 2020
Sarah Bird is a highly acclaimed author, screenwriter, and journalist, best known for her blend of humor, insightful social commentary, and deep connection to Texas culture.She is the author of 11 novels, including The Yokota Officers Club, Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen, and her forthcoming novel, Juneteenth Rodeo (June 2024). Her work often focuses on unique, compelling female characters navigating complex circumstances. She also adapted her novel The Boyfriend School into the 1990 movie Don't Tell Her It's Me.Beyond her novels, Bird has had a decade-long screenwriting career for companies like CBS and Paramount, and has been a contributing writer for major publications such as O: The Oprah Magazine and The New York Times Sunday Magazine. She is a regular columnist for Texas Monthly magazine and is an inductee into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame.

Robert Hitchcock
Paul Bartlett Ré Peace Prize 2020
Robert "Bob" Hitchcock, a former faculty member at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL), is a significant humanitarian and advocate for human rights.Driven by a concern for global issues like human rights abuses, forced migration, and genocide, Hitchcock and his wife, Melinda Kelly, donated over $1.2 million to the University of Nebraska Foundation. This transformative gift established the Hitchcock Family Chair in Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs and an accompanying excellence fund. This endowment is designed to ensure the program's long-term leadership, advance student and faculty research, and elevate UNL's standing in human rights education. Furthermore, Hitchcock's work, which included co-founding the university's human rights and humanitarian affairs program, demonstrates a sustained commitment to creating "durable and long-lasting solutions" for troubled communities globally.

Gerald Vizenor
Paul Bartlett Ré Peace Prize 2020
Gerald Vizenor is a leading figure whose humanitarian concerns are deeply embedded in his life and extensive scholarly and literary work. His writings are not only recognized for their literary merit—winning awards like the American Book Award—but also for their focus on peaceful resolutions to cultural conflicts.In 2021, Vizenor was honored with the Paul Bartlett Ré Peace Prize 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award for his work as a professor, writer, and scholar dedicated to discussing peaceful resolutions to cultural differences. His literary contributions, such as the neologism "survivance," which merges "survival" and "resistance," offer an intellectual framework for Native presence and self-determination over victimry, promoting a powerful and positive sense of continuance and cultural peace.Furthermore, Vizenor's early work as a journalist showed a direct commitment to social justice. While a staff writer for the Minneapolis Tribune, his influential articles about the case of Thomas James White Hawk, a convicted Native man sentenced to death, are credited with helping to secure the commutation of the death sentence, highlighting his dedication to justice for colonized peoples.
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Frank Martinez
Paul Bartlett Ré Peace Prize 2020
Frank Martinez was recognized as a 2020 Lifetime Achievement Awardee for the Paul Bartlett Ré Peace Prize, honored for his sustained humanitarian contributions to local community peace and understanding. His decades of work exemplify how external peace begins through dedicated local advocacy.As a long-time community volunteer and advocate in Albuquerque, Martinez dedicated his efforts to preserving the integrity and heritage of the historic Martineztown neighborhood. In 1971, he was instrumental in establishing the Citizens Information Committee of Martineztown (CICM) to peacefully protest a proposed urban renewal condemnation. Through grassroots organization and persistent effort, his committee successfully developed a long-term community plan that allowed the neighborhood to maintain its residential and historic character, effectively achieving cultural and social peace against external pressures. Martinez, a retired visiting research scholar at the University of New Mexico, continues to champion community growth, seeing local entrepreneurship as a fundamental path toward economic stability and harmony for the city's citizens. His award, like Vizenor's, acknowledges the powerful impact of lifelong commitment to non-violent resolution of cultural and social conflicts.



























