Lawson is one of five Heroes so honored this spring: Carolyn Smith-Evans, the Chair of NEA’s Healthy Schools Caucus, Barbara Worth of the Council of Educational Facility Planners International, Ramona Trovato, the founding and now former Director of US EPA’s Office of Children’s Health Protection, and
Tolle Graham of MA-Healthy Schools Network at Mass COSH, who have contributed significantly to enhancing school environments.
Said Claire Barnett, Executive Director, Healthy Schools Network, “We salute your grassroots to statehouse leadership. The courage to shine a light on uncomfortable truths is how change begins. The ability to shape and sustain policy responses takes advocacy to a higher, critical level. We congratulate ConnFESS and you on your strategic vision, care, and persistence ."
