2006 COMING UP TALLER AWARDS

Ceremony Remarks by First Lady Mrs. Bush

Acknowledgements

Note from First Lady Laura Bush

Note from Adair Margo
Chairman President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities

Note from the Federal Cultural Agencies


AWARD RECIPIENTS:
Art at the Heart Intervention Hope

Baltimore Urban Debate League

Birmingham Cultural Alliance Partnership

Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra

Radio Rookies

Shakespeare in the Courts

ShakesPEERS (formerly SE Project)

Snow City Arts Foundation

Starfish Academy

Studioworks

Teatro de la Rosa Youth Program

Tlingit Language and Culture Program

Upward Bound and Talent Search

Write to Read: Youth Literacy at Juvenile Hall

Young Musicians Program

La Chácara Children’s Cultural Center

Children’s Cultural Center La Vecindad

Coming Up Taller Awards Semifinalists 2006

National Jury
 




Coming Up Taller National Jury 2006


Giselle Antoni
Executive Director
Big Thought
Dallas, TX

Peggy Barber
Partner and Principal
Library Communication
Strategies
Chicago, IL

Debra Eileen Evans
Director of Education
The Metropolitan Opera Guild
New York, NY

Pat Farmer
Executive Director
Allegro Foundation
Charlotte, NC

Sandra Jackson-Dumont
Kayla Skinner Deputy Director
of Education and Public Programs
Seattle Art Museum
Seattle, WA

Suzi Jones
Deputy Director
Anchorage Museum of
History and Art
Anchorage, AK

Anana Kambon
National Director
ACT-SO
NAACP
Baltimore, MD

Georgina Ngozi
Executive Director
Children’s Museum of the Low Country
Charleston, SC

David Jacob Rothman
Publisher and Editor
Conundrum Press
Crested Butte, CO

Frank Russell
Director
Community Design Center
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH

Jennifer Jeffries Thompson
Research Specialist
Montana Historical Society
Helena, MT