Living Wage Visioning Contest Winners Announced: ALL Entries Published
The Tompkins County Workers’ Center held its Celebration of all eighteen (18)
entries that people submitted who entered our first- Living Wage Visioning
Contest ever on Friday, October 7th. Contestants who live and/or work in
Tompkins County, NY, were asked to produce an original creative work that gave
artistic voice to their vision of how their life and the life of their family
would change if they were paid a Living Wage. All entries are incredibly
heartfelt and expressive of the Contestants’ experiences and feelings. Entries
included a dance video, a recorded song, visual arts, posters, poems, and short
stories.(To see an excellent video and story as created by Kelsey O’Connor of
the Ithaca Journal of the Contest and its winners, go here.)
- 1st Prize Winner ($1,250): Leslie Prunty: “My World Is Very Small”
- 2nd Prize Winner ($750): April Krueger and Iain Michael: “Princess Eloise
and the Magical Living Wage”
- 3rd Prize Winner (2 Tied, $250 each): Stephanie Harris: “Living Wage and
Reclaiming My Humanity”
- 3rd Prize Winner (2 Tied, $250 each): Tal Mintz: “Pride”
- Runner-Up: Teresa Behan: “Living Wage Song”
- Runner-Up: Richard Brock, Sarah Korman, and Corry Wiggle: “Trippsart”
- Runner-Up: Shonntay Butler: “Living Wage"
- Runner-Up: Elliott DeLine: “If I Made a Living Wage”
- Runner-Up: Chris Georgardoudakis: “The 15 Dollar Dream”
- Runner-Up: John Gunn: “a eulogy for momma”
- Runner-Up: Caleb William Haines: “Occitan Sonnet to a Dying Wage”
- Runner-Up: Travis Howard: “Here Nor There”
- Runner-Up: John Hutchinson: “Life with Living Wage"
- Runner-Up: Jason Kinsey: “Upgrade”
- Runner-Up: Bailey Olmstead: “$12,000”
- Runner-Up: Spiral Cracks (Remanu Steele, Briel Driscoll, and Rosette
Epstein): “Thank You”
- Runner-Up: Heather Townsend: “When Living Wage is Part of the Dream”
- Runner-Up: Lilith Xseraph: “Reflections on Labor and the Divine”
An especial thanks to Sustainable Tompkins’ Neighborhood Mini-Grant Program and
the Kathy Yoselson Fierce Determination Fund of the Community Foundation of
Tompkins County for helping to make this Contest possible!
For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please
visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/
If you have questions about this list please contact the list manager, Tom
Shelley, at t...@cornell.edu.
