Roy Prosterman, professor emeritus of the University of Washington School of Law, founded Landesa, an international land reform agency a half-century ago. Today, Landesa was honored with a prestigious Hilton Humanitarian Prize. The prize comes with a $2 million cash award.
Prosterman is delighted that the award will help continue Landesa’s important work. “It will be extremely helpful and will lead, I’m sure, to a great deal of coverage of land and the land issue,” Prosterman said. “The award itself will be unrestricted and so it will allow us to work in places where it might otherwise take an extended period of time to get funding earmarked to do it.”