Presenters and award winners at the Ninth Annual Midwest Light of Human Rights Awards.

Judge Ann Williams of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals; Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh; NIJC Policy Director Tara Magner;
NIJC Director Mary Meg McCarthy; Natalie Spears
of Sonnenshein, Nath & Rosenthal LLP

Pro Bono Attorney Avi Staiger of Jenner and Block; NIJC Attorney Eleni Wolfe-Roubatis; Midwest Light Award Winner Melville Washburn of Sidley Austin LLP; NIJC Attorney Lisa Koop

Spears; Judge Abner Mikva; Edwin Silverman of the IL Department of Human Services; McCarthy; Washburn

Koh; Rev. Craig Mousin of DePaul University School of Law; Magner

Chicago Reporter Publisher Alden Loury accepts the 2008 Jeanne and Joseph Sullivan Award for the newspaper's role in the Chicago Matters: Beyond Borders multimedia series

WTTW11 Chicago Tonight Correspondent Eddie Arruza accepts the 2008 Jeanne and Joseph Sullivan Award for the program's role in the Chicago Matters: Beyond Borders multimedia series

Melville Washburn, a partner at Sidley Austin LLP and NIJC pro bono attorney, accepts the 2008 Midwest Light of Human Rights Award

The Hon. Judge Ann Williams of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals introduces Harold Koh as the keynote speaker

Harold Koh, dean of Yale Law School and former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, delivers the keynote address

Mary Lynn Everson, director of Heartland Alliance's Marjorie Kovler Center for the Treatment of Survivors of Torture, makes closing remarks

Mary Meg McCarthy, director of Heartland Alliance's National Immigrant Justice Center, makes closing remarks