Farooq Kathwari Receives Ellis Island Medal of Honor
May 17 2018 - 5:13PM
Ethan Allen chairman, president and CEO, Farooq Kathwari, was
awarded the 2018 Ellis Island Medal of Honor on May 12 at a gala
celebration at Ellis Island.
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The award, presented by the Ellis Island Foundation, recognizes
“a select group of individuals whose accomplishments in their field
and inspired service to our nation are cause for celebration… The
Ellis Island Medals of Honor embody the spirit of America in their
salute to tolerance, brotherhood, diversity and patriotism.
Honorees may be native-born or naturalized, but most importantly,
they are individuals who have made it their mission to share their
wealth of knowledge, indomitable courage, boundless compassion,
unique talents, and selfless generosity with those less
fortunate.”
"It is an honor for me to receive this esteemed award," said
Kathwari. "I am a proud American by choice, a citizen of a country
that offers equality and freedom of expression. I consider myself
very fortunate to have the opportunity to use what I have learned
for the benefit of others.”
Kathwari serves in numerous capacities on a number of business
and nonprofit organizations. He is a member of the Board of
Overseers of the International Rescue Committee; a member of the
advisory board of the Center for Strategic and International
Studies; a member of the Council on Foreign Relations; chairman
emeritus of Refugees International; an advisory member of the New
York Stock Exchange; co-chairman of the Muslim-Jewish Advisory
Council; a director of the Institute for the Study of
Diplomacy at Georgetown University; and a member of the
International Advisory Council of the United States Institute of
Peace. He helped found the Kashmir Study Group and served as a
member of the President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans
and Pacific Islanders from 2010 to 2014. Among his
humanitarian recognitions, he has received the Eleanor Roosevelt
Val-Kill Medal and the National Human Relations Award from the
American Jewish Committee. He has been recognized as an Outstanding
American by Choice by the U.S. government, and by
Worth magazine as one of the 50 Best CEOs in the United
States.
Other recipients of the 2018 Ellis Island Medal of Honor include
investor Philip Anschutz; Kay Buck, CEO of the Coalition to Abolish
Slavery & Trafficking; John W. Jackson, former CEO of Celgene
Corp.; Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. University
Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African &
African American Research at Harvard University; inventor Dean
Kamen; General Joseph Lengyel, 28th chief of the U.S. National
Guard Bureau and member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Bibiji
Inderjit Kaur Khalsa, chief religious minister of Sikh Dharma
International; Terence Monahan, chief of department, New York City
Police Department; actress Rita Moreno; Admiral Michael Rogers,
director of the U.S. National Security Agency, and Jeffery
Sonnenfeld, Yale School of Medicine's senior associate dean for
leadership studies and Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of
Management.
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