O Prémio MAPS Pessoa do Ano homenageia pessoas reconhecidas pelo seu compromisso em ajudar a MAPS e as comunidades que servimos. É o maior prémio concedido pela agência a cada ano.
Homenageados/as:
2023: Manny Lopes, Vice-Presidente Executivo, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
2022: Gilda M. Nogueira, President and CEO of the East Cambridge Savings Bank
2019: Margareth Shepard, Framingham City Councillor
2018: The Secretary-General of the United Nations, His Excellency Mr. António Guterres
2017: Lawrence (Larry) K. Fish, Chairman, Fish Family Foundation
2016: David Simas, JD, Assistant to President Barack Obama and Director of the White House Office of Political Strategy and Outreach
2015: Joseph A. Curtatone, Mayor of Somerville
2014: Claire Andrade-Watkins, Ph.D., Associate Professor at Emerson College, Filmmaker, Founder & President of SPIA Media Productions Inc., Volunteer/Co-Founder of CABO Inc.
2013: Anthony Silva, Radio co-host of the WBZ Afternoon News and the station’s New England Business Editor
2012: Sonia Chang-Diaz, Massachusetts State Senator
2011: Felipe Matos, Student Leader of the Trail of Dreams
2010: William Francis Galvin, Massachusetts Secretary of State
2009: The late Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino
2008: State Senator Anthony Galluccio
2007: Isaura Mendes, Community Leader
2006: The late Representative Deborah Blumer, D-Framingham
2005: Andrea Cabral, Suffolk County Sheriff
2004: Glenn Mello, Luis Pedroso and Mark & Elisia Saab, Lowell Area Community Leaders and Philanthropists
2003: M. Teresa Cardoso, Somerville School Committee member
2002: Dr. José Figueiredo, former principal of the Harrington Middle School in Cambridge
2001: Dr. Howard Koh, former Mass. Commissioner of Public Health
2000: Board and Employees of the Cambridge Portuguese Credit Union
1999: Joseph Teixeira, former partner of Arnold Communications
1998: State Rep. António F.D. Cabral
1997: Henrique de Campos Meirelles, former BankBoston CEO
1996: Gil Santos, WBZ Radio and TV personality
1995: State Representative Timothy J. Toomey, Jr.
1994: Mayor Michael E. Capuano, Somerville, currently US Congressman