Aguon will receive a $7,500 financial award, which will be presented to him in Cambridge, Mass. on Nov. 18.
According to the foundation, Aguon will join an “inclusive, informal, hands-on national network of citizen activists who are working across the lines of age, ethnicity, class and issue to build a more just society.”
The Foundation’s namesake, Petra Tolle Shattuck, was born in Germany during World War II, and “took refuge as a child from the bombings, hunger and harsh post-war realities in Karl May’s novels about Native American heroes, whose struggles she would later embrace as her own,” according to the site.
