The California Peace Prize honors individuals whose outstanding efforts have helped prevent violent deaths and injuries in communities across California. Since 1993, TCWF has awarded peace prizes to 27 Californians.
 
 

 

 

 

A member of the Pinoleville Band of Pomo Indians, Myers grew up in Mendocino County on the Pinoleville reservation.  He attended local schools and later served as an officer for the Oakland Police Department and the California Highway Patrol before earning a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1975.

 

As a survivor of domestic violence and sexual assault, Rahim knows firsthand the enduring impacts that such violence has on women, children and families. She draws upon her personal experience to counsel and reach out to families in San Francisco.
 


Sakamoto’s 15-year commitment to violence prevention stems from the challenges he faced as a third-generation, Japanese-American growing up in a rural community.  The son of two internment camp detainees, Sakamoto learned early the consequences of hatred and bigotry.  In his violence-prevention work, he battles what he sees as one cause of violence: hate.