Other recipients include Civil rights activist Diane Nash, who worked with Martin Luther King and is a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Father Alexander Karloutsos, the former vicar general of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America; civil rights advocate Raul Yzaguirre, who served as CEO and president of National Council of La Raza; former Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming; and former AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, who will be awarded the medal posthumously; Gold Star father Khizr Khan, who served on the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, and Catholic social justice leader Sister Simone Campbell, the former of NETWORK who leads the “Nuns on the Bus,” a group of politically active nuns; Fred Gray, who was one of the first Black members of the Alabama state legislature since Reconstruction and who represented Rosa Parks, the NAACP, and Martin Luther King as an attorney: retired Brigadier General Wilma Vaught; Sandra Lindsay, a critical care nurse who was the first American to receive a Covid-19 vaccine outside of clinical trials; Dr. Julieta Garcia, the first Hispanic woman to serve as a college president; and finally, Megan Rapinoe, a member of the US women’s national soccer team who is an Olympic gold medalist and two-time Women’s World Cup champion, the first female soccer player to receive the medal.