Margot Shetterly and Lee Hamilton

KHEF honors Shetterly of Hidden Figures, Lee Hamilton, and Mayor Freeman-Wilson

Contributed By:The 411 News

The Katie Hall Educational Foundation will honor national leaders and a famous author at its 5th Annual Katie Hall Public Service Awards Luncheon scheduled for Saturday, April 8th.

Receiving the Foundation’s Presidential Medal of Freedom award is former U.S. Representative Lee H. Hamilton from Indiana’s Ninth Congressional District, who served from 1965 to 1999.

Mr. Hamilton has been one of the most influential voices on international relations and American national security over the course of his more than 40 year career. He is a former Vice Chairman of the 9/11 Commission and Co-Chairman of the Independent Task Force on Immigration and Americans Future.

The 2017 co-recipient of the Katie Hall Public Service Award is Margot Lee Shetterly, author of the best-selling novel, Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win The Space Race). Her non-fiction book was adapted as a feature film - Hidden Figures was a contender for Best Picture during the 89th Academy Awards Ceremony in February 2017.

Co-recipient of the Katie Hall Public Service Award is Gary’s Mayor Karen Freeman Wilson, the first woman to lead the Steel City of Gary, Indiana and the first African-American female Mayor in Indiana.

The Honorable Karen Freeman Wilson is currently in her second term as mayor,

Story Posted:03/16/2017