2023 Alumni Honorees

THE CALVIN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD RECEIVES MANY NOMINATIONS FOR THESE ANNUAL AWARDS, AND THEY PRAYERFULLY CONSIDER EACH ONE. THESE ALUMNI HAVE MADE CONSIDERABLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THEIR FIELDS, AND THEIR LIVES REFLECT THE MISSION OF THE UNIVERSITY.

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NATE KNAPPER ’08 YOUNG ALUMNI AWARD

FBI special agent, attorney, and founder of The Joseph Project, Nate Knapper is building a national network of “legal first responders” who provide pro bono counsel to human trafficking survivors.

Janne Ritskes is the founder of Tabitha, a community development organization serving people living in poverty in Cambodia. Since 1994, Tabitha’s projects and programs have reached tens of thousands of Cambodia’s poorest families.

Through education reform campaigns and programs, eleventh U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has made a career commitment to empowering more American families to select where and how to educate their children.