Two awards granted by Jewish Community Relations Council

Two key awards are to be given at the Jewish Community Relations Council annual meeting on Thursday, June 9.

The Saul Sorrin Leadership Award will be granted to Brian Schupper, the former director of policy at the Greater Milwaukee Committee. Danae Davis, executive director of Milwaukee Succeeds, is to receive the 2016 Robert H. Friebert Social Justice Award.

Robert H. Friebert, who died in 2013, was active locally and dedicated himself to the pursuit of social justice and the Jewish value of tikkun olam. The Sorrin award is named for the late Saul Sorrin, who aided Holocaust survivors at displaced persons camps in Germany and served as executive director of the Milwaukee Jewish Council.

Brian Schupper has served as director of development for the Anti-Defamation League’s Washington D.C. region and assistant campaign director/director of campaign strategic planning for the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland. Schupper is vice chair of the JCRC and chair of the Robert H. Friebert Social Justice Award Committee.

He has demonstrated leadership through his strategic and broad approach to community relations and hands on contributions to the JCRC’s work, according to Elana Kahn, director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation.

Davis has devoted her professional life to helping the most vulnerable. Davis was formerly CEO of Pearls for Teen Girls, a Milwaukee based nonprofit organization that uses a nationally recognized model for girl empowerment and leadership development for adolescent girls ages 10-19. She has also served as diversity affairs director at Miller Brewing Co. and director of diversity management and work/life programs of Kraft Foods. She has worked on labor and human resources at the city, state and federal levels.

“Danae is a tireless advocate for social and economic justice, leaving fingerprints wherever she works,” said Jewish Community Relations Council Chair Michael Pollack.