Jody Williams
Jody Williams
The Nobel Peace Prize 1997
Nobel co-recipient: International Campaign to Ban Landmines
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Name: Jody Williams
Birth: 9 October 1950, Putney, VT, USA
Residence at the time of the award: Putney, VT, USA
Award: “for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines.”
Portion of Cash: 1/2
“for their work for the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines.”
Biography
Nobel Prize Cash and Charity
Nobel Prize Cash and Charity
Jody Williams stated that she would use the Nobel Prize money for business travel. In the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, she gave up being coordinator and became one of its three volunteer ‘international ambassadors’. $230,000 of her prize money was used for paying taxes in the U.S.