NCTE National Intellectual Freedom Award Winners
2017
Joan Bertin, Former Executive Director of the National Coalition Against Censorship
2017 Honorable Mentions
Christina Berchini of the University of Wisconsin in Eau Claire
SAGA 6, a group of six students from Mount Horeb High School, Wisconsin, and their school and community advisors
2016
Matt de la Pena, Author
2016 Honorable Mention
Courtney Kincaid, North Richland Hills, TX
Nominated by the Texas Council of Teachers of English Language Arts
2015
Laurie Halse Anderson, Author
2015 Honorable Mentions
Rod Wagner, Lincoln, NE
Nominated by the Nebraska English Language Arts Council
Margaret Ford, Campbell, OH
Nominated by the Ohio Council of Teachers of English Language Arts
2014
Brian Jeffrey, Montclair, CA
2014 Honorable Mention
Karen Arnrus Tollafield, Kent, OH
Nominated by Ohio Council of Teachers of English Language Arts
2013
Judy Blume, Author
2013 Honorable Mention
Dorothea Susag, Fairfield, MT
Nominated by the Montana Association of Teachers of English Language Arts
NCTE/SLATE* National Intellectual Freedom Award Winners
2012
Martha Brennan and Rebecca Slagle, Louisville, KY
2012 Honorable Mention
Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award Organization
2011
Texas Civil Rights Project
2011 Honorable Mention
Educators Network for Social Justice
2010
David Protess, director of the Medill Innocence Project and professor of Journalism at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
2010 Honorable Mention
Karyn Storts-Brinks, Knoxville, TN
2009
Texas Freedom Network (Austin)
2008
Heather Gillman, high school student, Ponce de Leon High School, Florida
2008 Honorable Mention
Brandon Hensler, Howard Simon, and Randall Marshall of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida
2007
Kimberly Horne, St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, Austin, Texas
2006
Blue Springs Board of Education, Blue Springs, Missouri
2005
Senator Richard Durbin (Illinois)
2004
James LaRue, Director of Douglas County Library System, Colorado
2003
Gloria Pipkin and ReLeah Cosset Lent, Lynn Haven, FL, At the Schoolhouse Gate: Lessons in Intellectual Freedom and Silent No More: Voices of Courage in American Schools
2002
Mark Goodman, Esq., Student Press Law Center, Virginia
2001
Joyce Meskis, The Tattered Cover Bookstore, Denver, Colorado
2000
Frosty Troy, editor The Observer, Oklahoma
1999
Jim Burke, Moderator of CATENet
1998
Chris Crutcher, Young Adult Author
1997
Washington Coalition Against Censorship
*SLATE Steering Committee was sunset in April 2012.