Please join us in honoring Ambassador Andrew Young as this year's recipient of the 2022 Soka Global Citizen Award. In recognition of his numerous achievements as a transformational leader in the nation and world, and his lifelong dedication to peacebuilding, human rights, and the freedom of all people.

The Soka Global Citizen Award recognizes an individual for efforts, either throughout their life or for a major event/initiative, that embodies the essential elements of global citizenship as outlined by the university founder Daisaku Ikeda at his 1996 address at Teachers College, Columbia University:

• The wisdom to perceive the interconnectedness of all life and living.
• The courage not to fear or deny difference, but to respect and strive to understand people of different cultures, and to grow from encounters with them.
• The compassion to maintain an imaginative empathy that reaches beyond one’s immediate surroundings and extends to those suffering in distant places.

We would like to ask anyone interested in attending to please RSVP using the Qualtrics link: https://soka.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e8NhiAibDlArCDk