The Frances McClelland Vision Award is given to honor a community leader who has made a lifelong commitment and significant contributions to the well-being of children, youth, and families. The community leader embodies the strength, dedication, vision and passion that Frances McClelland exhibited throughout her life. This award is for a community leader who has dedicated their life and work to helping Frances McClelland’s legacy and vision come to fruition for the people of Southern Arizona and the world.

The community leader should have at least 15 years of established commitment to Frances’ legacy and vision of improving the lives of children, youth and families in Southern Arizona and the world.

 

E. Liane Hernandez is a staff member of the YWCA Southern Arizona in Tucson, AZ.  She is a convener and works to create space for individuals and organizations to do the work of inclusive community building.  Trained at University of Arizona and Pima Community College as an art historian, chef, and cultural anthropologist she is student of the questions of what community is, who gets to participate, when, and how.

A member of the Tucson nonprofit arts community for many years, she has served as staff as well as on boards, committees, grant review panels, and was a founder of Raices Taller 222.  She currently Co-Chairs the Bond Oversight Commission. She is a member of Cohort 14 of the Lodestar American Express Leadership Academy.  Formerly, Liane served with Tucson Meet Yourself Festival as the City of Gastronomy Culture Kitchen Coordinator, was a 2016 Fellow of the Tucson Voices OpEd Project, a Commissioner with the Pima Tucson Women’s Commission, and part of the Latino Graduate Training Seminar on Qualitative Methodology at the Smithsonian Institute.  She was recognized as the Adelita Del Año by Las Adelitas PAC in 2015.

A native of Arizona, she lives in her beloved city of Tucson, Arizona with her partner, Peter and their two dogs.