The Andrea Lawrence Award Dinner

The Mono Lake Committee helps to carry on Andrea Lawrence's inspirational environmental legacy through the presentation of her annual award.

Please join the Mono Lake Committee in continuing a tradition that Andrea established twelve years ago—the Andrea Lawrence Award Dinner.

The Andrea Lawrence Award Dinner was canceled due to COVID-19. If you have any questions, please email Lily Pastel. For more information about Mono Lake Committee operations during COVID-19, please click here.

Andrea Lawrence Award Dinner
5:30pm on Friday, May 15, 2020
Parallax Restaurant
McCoy Station
Mammoth Mountain Ski Area

Park at Main Lodge and take the gondola up to McCoy Station. The gondola will
begin running at 5:00pm.

The dinner is a chance to gather in memory of Andrea, enjoying food and conversation with a spectacular view of Mt. Andrea Lawrence. We'll also present the Andrea Lawrence Award for passionate engagement in community and the land. The evening promises to be one of good food, good friends, reminiscences, and inspirational discussion.

Through the Andrea Lawrence Fund the Mono Lake Committee works to promote and celebrate passionate engagement in community and the land with an emphasis on encouraging collaboration and inspiring youth to become environmental leaders.

Please contact Lily Pastel at (760) 647-6595 for more information.

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Past recipients of the Andrea Lawrence Award:

• 2019: Elsa Lopez, Los Angeles-based educator, activist, and pioneer of the Mono Basin Outdoor Education Center program
• 2018: Phil Pister, desert fish and golden trout conservationist, environmental ethicist, and retired California Department of Fish & Wildlife fishery biologist
• 2017: Genny Smith, author, editor, activist, and the "Naturalist Queen of the Eastern Sierra"
• 2016: Dan & Leslie Dawson, formerly of the Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve (Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory and Valentine Camp)
• 2015: Ted Schade, formerly of the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District
• 2014: California Department of Fish & Wildlife
• 2013: Karen Ferrell-Ingram, founding Board member and former Executive Director of the Eastern Sierra Land Trust
• 2012: Bodie Foundation
• 2011: Eastern Sierra Audubon
• 2008: Mono Lake Committee
• 2007: Friends of the Inyo

The late Andrea Mead Lawrence was an Olympic double gold medalist, mother of five, visionary environmental leader, 16-year Mono County Supervisor, and advocate for Mono Lake's protection.

• Andrea's legacy in the Eastern Sierra
• Andrea in the news
• memorial service for Andrea Mead Lawrence, April 19, 2009
• Mono-logue post about Andrea's passing
• supporters of Andrea's foundation, ALIMAR

Contributions can be made in honor of Andrea Lawrence and in support of her inspirational vision. Please send to:

Mono Lake Committee
Andrea Lawrence Fund
P.O. Box 29
Lee Vining, CA 93541
(760) 647-6595