Past Honorees

The Angel Award Database is an archive of all those who have received the award since its inception in 1995. Click a year below to learn about our Angels.

Stacey Debevec

Alexandria, 2010
Co-founder of Pediatric Therapy Center, Stacey Debevec of Alexandria established the region's first center-based facilit...
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Deidra Decay

New Orleans, 2011
Deidra Decay founded the Awesome Ladies of Distinction Mentoring Program for girls ages 2-17. Decay mentors young girls ...
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Lloyd Dennis

New Orleans, 2017
One day in 2007, over coffee, Lloyd Dennis and his friend Arthur Wardsworth were hashing out a familiar conversation—t...
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Anthony DeRouen

Lafayette, 1997
As founder of Gateway Church in 1989 in St. Martinville, Anthony DeRouen made it a full-time job of helping needy childr...
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Kimberly Dilosa

New Orleans, 2005
Dilosa organized the YOUTHanasia Foundation in 1997 to provide prevention and intervention programs to children aged 13-...
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Laura Domingue

Baton Rouge, 2014
Domingue founded Trafficking Hope, which since 2007 has raised awareness in Baton Rouge and throughout the state of the ...
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Karen Duhon

Lake Charles, 2006
Duhon has devoted many volunteer hours to the Autism Society of America and its state and local chapters for the past 17...
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Darryl Durham

New Orleans, 2012
Darryl Durham of New Orleans, director of Anna’s Arts for Kids, an after-school arts and academic support program for ...
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Ari Ellerbe

Baton Rouge, 2001
Ari Ellerbe was introduced as a teen-ager to the needs of incarcerated youth through her parents’ faith-based prison m...
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Vicki Ellis

Baton Rouge, 2009
Vicki Ellis currently serves as Executive Director of Heritage Ranch; a Greater Baton Rouge area faith-based non-profit ...
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Rick Emerson

Shreveport, 2006
Emerson has devoted his life to social work in Lincoln and Union Parishes. The culmination of this has been the opening ...
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