Nigerian environmental leader, architect, and poet Nnimmo Bassey will receive the Wallenberg Medal and
deliver the Wallenberg Lecture on September 10th.
Category: 2020 to Present
Each year the recipient of the Wallenberg Medal is invited to present a lecture at the University of Michigan. The medalists take the stage at Rackham Auditorium and share their stories with an audience drawn from our campus and many surrounding communities.
2023, Lucas Benitez
Lucas Benitez, a co-founder of the Florida-based labor and human rights organization the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) and a key organizational leader and member of the CIW’s Fair Food Program worker education team, received the 2023 Wallenberg Medal from the University of Michigan on October 10, 2023.