Past Honorees

The Angel Award Database is an archive of all those who have received the award since its inception in 1995. Click a year below to learn about our Angels.

Dorothy “Dot” Brown

Monroe, 2001
Children of death-row inmates are often victims themselves, forgotten or wrongly judged by society and more likely to wi...
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Helen Brown

New Orleans, 2005
As an 11-year-old weighing 65 pounds, Brown was abandoned at St. Elizabeth’s Orphanage. Eight years later she began he...
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Ken Brown

Lake Charles, 2021
Ken Brown is a teacher at Washington-Marion Magnet High School in Lake Charles and one of the founders of Peer Initiativ...
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Mary-Brent Brown

New Orleans, 2012
Mary-Brent Brown of Covington, who recently turned 17 but for the past five years has been running a non-profit group th...
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Sonya Brown

New Orleans, 2016
Sonya Brown is a dedicated social worker who has become a nationally recognized advocate for young people in foster care...
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Frederick Burgess

Alexandria, 2023
“Frederick is a man on a mission, driven by the heartache of losing so many young people to gun violence and other cri...
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Carolyn Carnahan

Baton Rouge, 2008
Carnahan founded Volunteers in Public Schools, believing that whether students are enrolled in private or public schools...
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Loren Carriere

Lafayette, 2016
Loren Carriere founded Hope for Opelousas, a ministry that works to actively empower a movement of hope grounded in the ...
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Jesse Cavalier

Baton Rouge, 2003
Since 1966, Cavalier, a master sergeant with the United States Army, has worked with young men from underprivileged fami...
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Fr. Michael Champagne

Lafayette, 2022
Fr. Michael Champagne is a Catholic priest and the Superior at Community of Jesus Crucified — a religious order dedica...
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Renee Chatelain

Baton Rouge, 2005
An accomplished dancer, practicing attorney, and a teacher at Episcopal High School, Chatelain serves as artistic direct...
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