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Bismarck Human Relations Committee names Lauren Zent, YouthWorks and Gretchen as 2024 humanitarian award winners
Summary
The Bismarck Human Relations Committee selected Lauren Zent as youth humanitarian, YouthWorks as youth organization, and Gretchen (pastor) as individual humanitarian of the year after reviewing nominations, scoring sheets and a ranked vote at a committee meeting.
The Bismarck Human Relations Committee voted to name Lauren Zent its 2024 youth humanitarian recipient, YouthWorks as the youth organization recipient, and Gretchen (a pastor at United Church of Christ) as the individual humanitarian of the year.
Committee members said they used a scoring sheet developed by Katie to summarize nominations across two main criteria — leadership and promoting personal dignity and eliminating discriminatory barriers — and then discussed conflicts of interest and qualitative details in the nomination essays before voting.
The committee’s chair described the scoring as a guide rather than a final decision and noted several members recused themselves from specific nominees…
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