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DEWEY WINBURNE COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD Dewey Winburne served as one of the original co-founders of the SXSW Interactive Festival. A teacher who spent much of his energy training at-risk youth to make use of digital technology, Dewey believed that the new media revolution could help level the playing field between the haves and the have-nots in our society.�� Although Dewey passed away in 1999, his legacy continues via the lives of the many digital creatives he touched. Each spring, SXSW Interactive honors his vision with the Dewey Winburne Community Service Award. This award celebrates the spirit of community that is unique to SXSW. Join us at 7:00pm Sunday, March 10 at St David���s Church, 301 East 8th Street to honor these 10 outstanding community activists! Admission to the Dewey Ceremony does NOT require a badge ��� so feel free to bring your friends who have not registered for SXSW yet! Free food and lots of great networking! Madhura Bhat Washington, D.C. : Bhat co-founded Health for America, a fellowship targeted at transforming the health of communities across the US through innovation and design. A visionary leader, she has worked with various multi-sectoral organizations to maximize the impact of their investments. Elena Lagoudi: Athens, Greece Lagoudi is a digital engagement worker for museums. She earned hardcore museum experience working for London���s National Gallery & Tate developing outreach projects for diverse communities. Since the financial crisis hit Greece, she returned to experience Armageddon at ground zero. Elizabeth Davidson: New York, NY With Maurya Couvares, Davidson co-founded ScriptEd, an organization that trains tech professionals to teach computer programming to students in under-served high schools. ScriptEd integrates a project-based JavaScript curriculum, apprenticeships, & field trips to engage students in the tech industry. Simeon Oriko: Nairobi, Kenya Oriko has a passion for using digital technology to respond to real world challenges and opportunities, and to effect positive social change. This view has led him to his current position as the Founder and Executive Director of the Kuyu Project, a digital literacy initiative aimed at teaching African youth how to fully utilize social media and other digital tools to effect social change in their communities. Arlene Ducao: Cambridge, MA Ducao leads OpenIR, Open Infrared, a software project mapping the ecological features and risks revealed by infrared satellite data. She is an Ida Green Fellow in the MIT Media Lab���s Information Ecology group and a co-founder and principal of The DuKode Studio in Brooklyn. Rey Faustino San Francisco, CA : An entrepreneur, innovator and fervent advocate for educational equity, Faustino launched One Degree in 2011 to ensure that all families have access to services they need to overcome poverty. Additionally, he is an Echoing Green Fellow and Education Pioneers Fellow. Gene Gurkoff: New York, NY Gurkoff is the founder of Charity Miles, a free iPhone/Android app that enables people to earn money for charity by walking, running or biking. He also helped found Team Fox, the grassroots fundraising arm of The Michael J. Fox Foundation, which has raised over $20 million for Parkinson���s research. Amanda Quraishi: Austin, TX A blogger, interfaith activist and technology professional, Quraishi works full time managing the web presence for Mobile Loaves & Fishes. This non-profit organization lifts the chronically homeless off the streets providing them with affordable housing and micro-enterprise opportunities. Ben Sawyer: Freeport, ME Sawyer is a community leader in the use of videogames beyond entertainment. In 2002, after producing one of the first major foundation funded games, Virtual U, he teamed up with Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars to cofound The Serious Games Initiative. Rich Schwerdtfeger: Austin, TX Schwerdtfeger is responsible for overall accessibility strategy and architecture for IBM���s Software Group, providing the leadership that created an unprecedented IT industry effort to develop solutions in an open source, non-proprietary collaboration that is facilitating equal information access for millions of people with disabilities around the world. SXSW 2013 Interactive Festival | 75 INTERACTIVE EVENTS 2013 Dewey Winburne Community Service Honorees