Bridge Builders Award
Alice Coles, Executive Director, Bayview Citizens for Social Justice and Stephen Parker, Director, The Nature Conservancy, Virginia Coast Reserve for their leadership efforts in creating a new town by advancing both human needs such as housing, sewage, job training and childcare with the need to protect the ecological system of the region. Their dedication in this combined pursuit has not only benefited the low-income residents of Bayview but has helped to sustain one of Virginia’s poorest, rural villages on the Eastern Shore.
