A-B Senior Receives Honor for Work in Race Relations

Kendall Butler is a volunteer for The Food Project, a non-profit organization that brings together youth and adults from diverse communities who promote access to healthy, fresh fruits and vegetables in the Greater Boston area.

Through the program, participants from different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds work together and learn about one another.

Because of her efforts, the senior at Acton-Boxborough Regional High School has won a certificate of accomplishment for the Boston area Princeton Prize in Race Relations. 

Butler will receive the certificate at the prize ceremony on May 23, at 6 p.m., at the Kendall Square Marriott in Cambridge.

“Kendall has a true understanding of her own racial privilege … and thus mobilizes her knowledge about race and racial injustice in consistently appropriate ways," said Food Project Supervisor Katherine Evering-Row.  "Because of all of these qualities, Kendall serves as an invaluable example to her peers.”

Butler declined a request to be interviewed for this story.

As an intern, she reviewed and developed curriculum, and facilitated workshops to promote dialogue and understanding between Food Project participants. Now having worked for the Food Project for three years, Butler is a supervisor and participates in and leads discussions about race and oppression.