The Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio, USA) has announced that they will award Oscar Chacón the 2025 Inamori Ethics Prize. Chacón is a co-founder and senior strategy advisor of Alianza Americas, a network of organizations advocating for solutions to address systemic inequities, immigrant justice, and climate justice in the United States and Latin America.
The Inamori Ethics Prize is an international award presented by the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at Case Western Reserve University. The Prize has been awarded since 2008 to honor outstanding international ethical leaders whose actions and influence have greatly improved the condition of humankind. The Center was established with an endowment from the Inamori Foundation and conducts educational and research activities with the goal of promoting ethical leadership throughout the world.
In announcing the 2025 prize recipient, Dr. Eric W. Kaler, President of Case Western Reserve University, said, “Oscar Chacón’s advocacy is led, simply, by compassion and humanity. He gives voice to individuals who are silenced and raises awareness for today’s leading global challenges.” He also added, “Mr. Chacón has shown us what can be accomplished with justice and equity as our guides.”
Chacón will receive the prize, deliver a public lecture, and participate in an academic symposium panel discussion during Inamori Center events on September 25-26, 2025, on the Case Western Reserve campus.
Profile of Anthony Oscar Chacón (Reference: announcement by Case Western Reserve University )
Chacón was born in El Salvador and immigrated to Brooklyn, New York, without documentation. His advocacy work and community organizing has been informed by his experience becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen and working transnationally with partners from civil society and government to organized labor and faith-based communities.
He is a frequent national and international spokesperson on the link between migration, development, and global economics; immigration policies and processes and human mobility; racism and xenophobia; and U.S. Latino community issues.
Before co-founding Alianza Americas, Chacón served in leadership positions at the Chicago‐based Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights, the Northern California Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, the Boston based Centro Presente and several other community-based and international development organizations. He has also served on multiple advisory committees to national and international processes, including the Civil Society Consultation process associated with the Global Forum on Migration and Development and the World Social Forum on Migration.
Through these roles, Chacón has contributed to systems that keep immigrants and naturalized U.S. citizens informed about their rights here and in their countries of origin.
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