is a writer and media personality based in Washington and originally from Bangladesh who recently wrote about the best of America - in Charlottesville. 

became the first Hispanic woman elected to Congress, in 1989. She was born in Cuba and immigrated to the US as a child; "“We never felt the pangs of what the anxiety was all about,” Ros-Lehtinen said. “My brother and I thought, ‘What a great country this is.’ It was like a motion picture before our eyes.”

stands as one of Tampa's most impressive rising entrepreneurs. The Panamanian native is the owner of Blind Tiger Cafes, Black & Denim clothing company and CoWork Ybor

is a recent college graduate and member of DACA. "I really believe I belong in the U.S. and am I'm willing to do whatever I need to do to show that and contribute in a positive way,''

Hungarian born and a successful newspaper man, the one whom the prizes are named after