Brandi Carlile to Receive LA Press Club Humanitarian Honor — SkimNews
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- Brandi Carlile will receive the Los Angeles Press Club's Visionary Award for Humanitarian Work at the National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards Gala on Dec. 6 at downtown L.A.'s Millennium Biltmore, where about 800 journalists and guests gather in the historic Crystal Ballroom.
- KCRW host Madeleine Brand will receive the Luminary Award for Career Achievement in Media at the same gala, recognized for her work on "Press Play" since 2014 and more than 30 years in public radio.
- The Visionary Award was first given in 2012 to Jane Fonda (presented by Robert Redford), with past recipients including Quincy Jones, Tiffany Haddish, Diane Warren, Forest Whitaker, and last year's Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller Rogen.
- LA Press Club President Danny Bakewell Jr. credited Carlile's songs "The Joke," "Human" and "Church & State" with advancing social justice, and cited her collaborations with Elton John and Joni Mitchell alongside her work for "society's underdogs."
- Carlile's Looking Out Foundation has granted more than $10 million to community-based nonprofits focused on refugees, immigrants and the LGBTQIA2S+ community, funded in part by ticket sales and proceeds from her wine club XOBC Cellars.
- The "Be Human: A Concert for Minneapolis" livestream, viewable on YouTube, raised over $750,000 for The Advocates for Human Rights to help families and individuals affected by ICE.
- Carlile just released a deluxe companion to her eighth studio album "Returning to Myself," archly titled "Returning to Myself (Sad Gay Version)" with the original tracks reimagined in stripped-down arrangements.
Why it matters: Carlile's honor puts a national spotlight on her Looking Out Foundation, which has directed more than $10 million to grassroots causes including refugee, immigrant, and LGBTQIA2S+ rights—and explicitly follows her "Be Human" Minneapolis concert that raised over $750,000 for families affected by ICE enforcement, making this recognition for active advocacy rather than retrospective legacy.
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