2024 Profile in Courage Award
The 2024 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award® will be presented to Kentucky Secretary of State Michael G. Adams (R) for expanding voting rights and standing up for free and fair elections despite party opposition and death threats from election deniers.
Learn more about Secretary Adams.
Watch the 2024 Ceremony
On Sunday, June 9, 2024, Caroline Kennedy and her son Jack Schlossberg will present the award in a live-streamed ceremony. We invite you to join us from wherever you are to celebrate Secretary Adams’ act of political courage.
About the Award
The John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award was created in 1989 by members of President Kennedy's family to honor President John F. Kennedy and to recognize and celebrate the quality of political courage that he admired most.
The award recognizes a public official (or officials) at the federal, state, or local level whose actions demonstrate the qualities of politically courageous leadership in the spirit of Profiles in Courage, President Kennedy's 1957 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, which recounts the stories of eight U.S. senators who risked their careers by embracing unpopular positions for the greater good.