Honorees
2006
2013 - 2012 - 2011 - 2010
- 2009 - 2008
- 2007 - 2006
- 2005 - 2004
 Ms.
Rosemary Richmond (Akwesasne Mohawk - Bear Clan) is a third generation
member of New York City ’s American Indian community. She has worked
for the American Indian Community House since 1975, and has been its Executive
Director since 1987. Under her leadership, AICH has grown from a loose consortium
of groups and individuals into its present status as a multi-faceted social
support and cultural center. AICH serves the Native American Community of
New York City with health counseling, education, prevention and referral programs,
job training and higher education assistance, alcohol and substance abuse
out-patient counseling, food, clothing and limited emergency housing assistance
and the first comprehensive HIV/AIDS project in the northeast run by American
Indians for American Indians. In addition to these social services, AICH houses
an off-off Broadway theater, a performing arts program for Native artists
of any media, and a 1,600 square foot art gallery which presents exhibitions
of both modern and traditional Native American visual artists. Apart from
her work at AICH, Ms. Richmond was a founding member of the Native American
Council of NYC, an organization formed to bring Native social issues to the
attention of the general public during the events around 1992, and has served
on the Board of Directors of the American Indian Health Care Association,
a former national organization of Urban Indian health care providers; is a
founding member of the Thunderbird American Indian Dancers, an organization
that raises scholarship funds for American Indian students; and has served
on the Democratic National Committee’s American Indian Advisory Council.
Currently she serves on New York City’s Workforce Investment Board.
For more information, please visit: http://www.aich.org.
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