AWARDS For Sajed Kamal

1978: City Arts Grant Award from the Boston Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs, for People City: After the Snowstorm

2000: The National Book Centre Award, Bangladesh, for Kazi Nazrul Islam: Selected Works

2005: The National Book Centre Award, Bangladesh, for Chharai Bhara Bashundhara(A World Full of Rhymes), poems for children in Bengali with drawings

2007: Boston “Mayor’s First Annual Green Award for Community Leadership in Energy and Climate Protection”

2007: A “Community Service Award” from the Fenway Community Development Corporation, Boston

2008: A “Lifetime Achievement Award” from the New England Bangladesh American Foundation

2008: A “Regional Heroes Award” from AltWheels: Creating a Sustainable Transportation and Energy Vision for the 21^st Century

2008: A “Lifetime Achievement Award” from the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency

2010: “North America Nazrul Conference Award” from the North America Nazrul Conference Committee & Bangladesh Association of Delaware Valley

2010: “Honoree of the Year Award” from the Fenway Community Development Corporation, Boston

2012: The “Rachel Carson Award” from Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light

Sajed has been profiled in publications including The Boston Globe, The Boston Ledger, The Northeastern News, The Fenway News, the Brandeis-SID Global Alumni eNewsletter, Northeastern University Alumni Magazine and other papers and magazines in the USA and abroad. “The Greener Issue” of The Boston Sunday Globe Magazine on September 28, 2008, featured him as one of the “Six local heroes whose work is having rippling effects—at home and far away—in making the world a better place.”