Five New Yorkers have been awarded a prestigious award to support efforts to making the city a better place.
The initiative, known as the David Prize, doles out $200,000 to each individual without any strings. Past winners have included technology entrepreneurs, community organizers and founders of nonprofits.
Two of this year’s winners – David Shalleck-Klein, the founder of the Family Justice Law Center, a new civil rights organization seeking justice for families mistreated by the child welfare system; and Mark Winston Griffith, a community builder in central Brooklyn and the founder of Brooklyn Deep, a digital journalism platform focused on the needs and concerns of Black New Yorkers – discussed winning the award with Inside City Hall’s Errol Louis.