2025 International Freedom Conductor Awards

Tickets are on sale now for this year's International Freedom Conductor Awards. ✨

Enjoy an evening of live entertainment, stirring speeches, and a powerful call to action as the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center honors four modern-day freedom heroes with its highest honor – the International Freedom Conductor Award (#IFCA).

This year, the Freedom Center will honor:
Opal Lee | Grandmother of Juneteenth
Toni Morrison | Pulitzer Prize- and Nobel Prize-winning author of The Bluest Eye and Beloved
Lonnie G. Bunch III | first African American Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Isabel Wilkerson | Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling-author of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents


✨ Presented by Proctor & Gamble and in the spirit of legendary figures Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, and hundreds more unnamed heroes of the 19th century, the International Freedom Conductor Awards recognizes those individuals lighting a path through the wilderness toward a brighter, more equitable future. ✨

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