Honors Andrea James has received numerous honors and awards for her dedicated work pursuing human rights and abolition. Andrea James receives the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, 2016 The Committee for Public Counsel Services Thurgood Marshall Award - 2020Mothers in Charge Women for Peace Award - 2020 and 2014Senator Brian A. Benjamin Certificate of Appreciation - 2019Justice Roundtable Certificate of Excellence - 2018The Church of Scientology National Affairs Office Humanitarian Award - 2017Beauty After the Bars Elevation Community Achievement Award - 2017Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award - 2016The Open Society Foundations Soros Justice Fellowship - 2015Just Leadership USA Leading with Conviction Award - 2015Prison Birth Project Resiliency Award - 2015Citizen's Against Recidivism Inc. Julio Medina Freedom Fighters Award Award Inc. - 2013