{"477371":{"#nid":"477371","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage Award Luncheon","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech will honor community and public affairs leader Nancy Parrish as recipient of the Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage at a luncheon to be held Noon-1:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 18. The luncheon will transpire in the middle of the Allen Prize Symposium, held from 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. that day. Both events will be held in The Biltmore ballrooms and the entire campus community is invited to attend. RSVP information can be found in mid-January on the Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage site.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2011, Parrish founded Protect Our Defenders, the only national human rights organization solely dedicated to ending the epidemic of sexual assault and harassment in the U.S. military and its wide-ranging effects on our communities. In 2014, the \u003Cem\u003ENew York Times\u003C\/em\u003E wrote that Protect Our Defenders has \u201cquickly become the nation\u2019s pre-eminent advocacy group on behalf of victims of sexual assault in the military.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EParrish was also a founding co-chair of Human Rights Watch\u2019s Northern California Chapter, an organization dedicated to protecting human rights around the world. She has worked with President and Mrs. Carter in support of their international humanitarian work at the Carter Center, which is guided by a fundamental commitment to the alleviation of human suffering. By recognizing Parrish with the Allen Prize, Georgia Tech supports a universal message that human rights are imperative for a civil society.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ivanallenprize.gatech.edu\/node\/1\u0022\u003EAllen Prize\u003C\/a\u003E is given annually to individuals who, by asserting moral principle, have positively affected public discourse at the risk of their careers, livelihoods, and sometimes lives.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ivanallenprize.gatech.edu\/rsvp\u0022\u003ERSVP by February 10, 2016.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EGeorgia Tech will honor community and public affairs leader Nancy Parrish as recipient of the Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage. Ms. Parrish is co-founder and CEO of Protect Our Defenders, whose work\u0026nbsp;honors, supports, and gives voice\u0026nbsp;to the brave men and women in uniform who have been raped or sexually assaulted by fellow service members.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage will be presented to community and public affairs leader Nancy Parrish."}],"uid":"27444","created_gmt":"2015-12-09 10:09:19","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:17:28","author":"Laura Pusateri","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-02-18T16:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2016-02-18T17:30:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-02-18T17:30:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-02-18 21:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-02-18 22:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-02-18 22:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"hg_media":{"477381":{"id":"477381","type":"image","title":"Ivan Allen Prize","body":null,"created":"1449680400","gmt_created":"2015-12-09 17:00:00","changed":"1475895230","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:50","alt":"Ivan Allen Prize","file":{"fid":"205755","name":"13c2407-p1-062.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/13c2407-p1-062_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/13c2407-p1-062_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1524820,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/13c2407-p1-062_0.jpg?itok=-sD4aQio"}}},"media_ids":["477381"],"groups":[{"id":"107741","name":"Special Events"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1545","name":"Ivan Allen Jr. Prize"},{"id":"10007","name":"Ivan Allen Prize"},{"id":"168135","name":"Nancy Parrish"},{"id":"168136","name":"Protect Our Defenders"},{"id":"8926","name":"The Biltmore"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1789","name":"Conference\/Symposium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELaura Pusateri\u003Cbr \/\u003ESpecial Events \u0026amp; Protocol\u003Cbr \/\u003E404.894.7613\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.pusateri@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.pusateri@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}