This year, the center will offer the 32nd annual Thomas Merton Award to Amy Goodman. Past awardees are:

1972 James Carroll
1973 Dorothy Day
1974 Dick Gregory
1975 Joan Baez
1976 Dom Helder Camara
1977 Dick Hughes
1978 Bishop John Burt & Bishop James Malone
1979 Helen Caldicott
1980 William Winispinger
1981The People of Poland
1982 Archbishop Ramon Hunthausen
1983 No Awardee
1984 Bernice Johnson Reagan
1985 Henri Nouwen
1986 Allan Boesak
1987 Miguel D’Escoto
1988 Daniel Berrigan
1989 Comrades of El Salvador & Elizabeth Linder
1990 Marian Wright Edelman
1991 Howard Zinn
1992 Molly Rush
1993 Reverend Lucius Walker
1994 Richard Rohr, OFM
1995 Marian Kramer
1996 Winona LaDuke
1997 Ron Chisolm
1998 Studs Terkel
1999 Wendell Berry
2000 Ronald V. Dellums
2001 Sr. Joan Chittister
2002 Bishop Leontine T.C. Kelly
2003 Voices in the Wilderness
2004 Amy Goodman