Honorary Commendation for Humanitarian Activism Award
Catherine Bauknight, photojournalist, was the recipient of the Honorary Commendation for Humanitarian Activism Award, presented by Kenneth Aaron, President of the Visual Artists Guild on January 16, 2008 in Beverly Hills, California. The award was presented in recognition of Bauknight’s efforts in Hawaii, China, Ethiopia, and with the Catawba Indians, to document the humanitarian plight of oppressed and forgotten peoples and to communicate through photography the stories, which are so often overlooked by society,

The Visual Arts Guild is a nonprofit organization promoting human rights, based in Los Angeles.

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