LOUISE BENALLY-CRITTENDEN, UNITED STATES Activist committed to securing land rights for the Navajo people of Big Mountain, Arizona.

MICHAEL BROWN and ALAN KHAZEI, UNITED STATES Founders of an urban peace corps through which young people contribute one year of community service.

LI LU, WANG DAN, CHAI LING, and WU'ER KAIXI, CHINA Leaders of the Chinese Student Democracy Movement and Tiananmen Square demonstrations.

MERCEDES DORETTI and LUIS FONDEBRIDER, ARGENTINA Forensic scientists who document disappearances, executions, and other human rights abuses.

DAWAT LUPUNG, MALAYSIA Penan native who works to preserve indigenous people threatened by the deforestation of their land.

BRYAN STEVENSON, UNITED STATES Legal advocate fighting discrimination in the criminal justice system especially racial inequities in capital punishment.