Janice Clarkson
2025 Maud Wood Park Award Recipient
At its Annual Business Meeting, LWV South Bend Area presented Janice Clarkson with the 2025 Maud Wood Park Award. President Beth North notes "Janice and I first met when she and her husband moved here from Canada. Janice is a skilled teacher. She is also a skilled leader. AND, she is an immigrant who has become a NATURALIZED CITIZEN! No one is more passionate about seeing to it that our NEWEST CITIZENS ELIGIBLE TO VOTE, actually get registered to vote - and then ACTUALLY DO VOTE. She personally sent text messages to all the high schoolers who opted in for a voting day REMINDER!
Nimbi and I had no idea the other was nominating Janice until after each had submitted their nomination form to Geri!
We are so proud of Janice, so happy to have the pleasure to work with her, and thankful she quietly barged in and volunteered to help us complete and send our grant applications for national funding of our youth, naturalized citizen, and incarcerated/formerly incarcerated voter registration efforts.
Congratulations! So well-deserved!"