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Recognitions & Awards

Heidi and Roots of Peace have been the recipient of numerous awards including the 2006 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Award/National Jefferson Award for Public Service, the Rotary International “Service Above Self” Award. In 2018, she received the inaugural Earth Ethics Award from Marcus Nobel, nephew of Alfred Nobel presented to her at the United Nations in New York. And, in 2019, Heidi received the Gandhi Global Family Award in New Delhi, the first American to receive this prestigious award on the occasion of the 150th Birthday of Mahatma Gandhi.

• The World Food Prize 2023

• Mother Theresa Memorial Award for Social Justice 2023

• Cal Berkeley Award for Excellence & Achievement 2002

• Rotary International ‘Service Above Self’ Award

• Earth Ethics Award — Nobel Family

• ‘Walk the Talk’ Award—UN Environmental Programme

• The Jefferson Award