Parveen Chopra - Awards

Awards

Chopra, a well-known American Civil and Human Rights leader, is the First Asian American in the United States to be honored with the prestigious Liberty Bell Award in the presence of over fifty highly accomplished and acclaimed judges from U.S. Federal courts, Supreme Courts, Criminal Courts, Family Courts, County Courts and various District Courts, and hundreds of powerful law firms that attended this function. The Liberty Bell Award honors an individual or organization whose community service advances and strengthens the American system of freedom under law. Specifically: promoting better understanding of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights; encouraging greater respect for law and the courts; stimulating a deeper sense of individual responsibility so that citizens recognize their duties as well as their rights; contributing to the effective functioning of institutions of government; and for fostering a better understanding and appreciation of the rule of law.

The New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) conferred upon Chopra the Prestigious Haywood Burns Memorial Award for 2009 at the Marriott Hotel, Manhattan, New York City for his outstanding work in civil and Human Rights. Chopra is the first Asian-American honored in the history of its 133-year-old organization. The Governor of New York Honorable David Paterson in a letter sent said, "I join to congratulate the distinguished individual you have chosen to honor tonight - someone who upholds the ideals and values exemplified by the respected namesake of your prestigious award. A passionate advocate of civil and human rights, Dr. Parveen Chopra has himself earned respect as a voice for those who are economically and socially oppressed, disenfranchised and underrepresented. Dr. Chopra is likewise recognized for his professional excellence as an educator and his tireless work as an activist who fights to achieve equality for people of all backgrounds." Dean Haywood Burns is best known for organizing the Poor People's Campaign with Martin Luther King Jr. to empower minorities in America to gain their civil and human rights.

Chopra was honored with the prestigious Ellis Island Medal of Honor, the highest civil award in America in affiliation with the army, navy, air force as an outstanding American for his great contributions to American life. This award has been shared by six Presidents of America, many Nobel laureates, generals, chief justices and other very outstanding citizens of America. He also was the first Asian to be honored with the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award at the Marriott Hotel, Uniondale, New York and he was again the first Asian to be honored by The One Hundred Black Men Inc. at the Crest Hollow Country Club, Woodbury, New York, for his efforts to promote understanding and relations between the African and Indian communities and leading the causes of civil and human rights in America. He also worked with the Hispanic leadership on English Plus campaign successfully to retain English as a second language.

Chopra has received many other awards and over two hundred citations and recognitions from elected officials. He has been honored by the Prime Minister of India, New York State Governor, U.S. Congressmen, New York State senators, county executives, presiding supervisor of legislature, town boards, mayors and many prestigious associations and organizations in Indian and American community like SAAPC the largest Union, Federation of Indian Associations, Sri Chinmoi Mission at the United Nations, H.H.H.Pramukh Swamy Maharaj of B.A.P.S., News India Times Group Inc., Nargis Dutt Memorial Foundation Inc. Jackson Heights Merchants' Association, Shiromani Punjabi Puraskar by International Council of Punjab, Bharatiya Samaj Shiromani Award by the Akhil Vishwa Hindi Sammiti among others.

Chopra has been profiled and honored by America’s oldest and prestigious biographer Marquis’ (since 1894) in WHO’s WHO IN AMERICA; WHO'S WHO IN FINANCE AND INDUSTRY IN AMERICA; and WHO’S WHO IN THE WORLD; for his achievements spanning over forty years.

He has five graduate degrees with honors including an MBA, and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. He has taught at various Schools of Business Administration, over seven thousand BBA, MBA, and doctoral students, at quality oriented Universities, as a full time professor at: Hofstra, C.W.Post Campus of Long Island University, Rutgers, Kean and as an Adjunct Professor at Fordham University and Stevens Institute of Technology and has authored several books and articles in the field of Management in Business Administration. He joined the Academy of Management in 1976.