Each year at the Backyard BBQ, CCTV recognizes individuals who work tirelessly behind the scenes to make Cambridge a better place. This year, the Leading Role Award will be presented to three who work with youth in our City, ensuring that they remain safe and can reach their fullest potential.

Michael “Whitey” Daniliuk is an officer in the Cambridge Police Department. After 13 years in patrol, he joined the CPD Family Services Unit this year as the Youth Outreach Coordinator. A lifelong Cambridge resident, Whitey was director of the West Cambridge Youth Center from 1991-1997, is a board member Ahern Foundation and Galluccio Associates, co-Founder and co-commissioner of the North Cambridge Nite Court Basketball League, and current and former coach of various Cambridge youth sports including Babe Ruth Baseball and Cambridge Pride Basketball. This spring, he began the Man to Man Each One Teach One project, to engage positive male role models with disconnected male teens in Cambridge, in order to address negative behavioral and societal issues. In Whitey's words, "An overwhelming majority of these young men are growing up essentially fatherless. Although these young men may not be biologically ours, it is our generation of men, many of whom are our friends and family members, who have left them to fail. While this is certainly not a problem unique to Cambridge, I believe that we have the talent and the resources to positively impact this group of young men." He is married and has three children.

Robert "Bob" Hurlbut was raised and schooled in Cambridge with the exception of high school years at St. Paul's School, Concord NH [Harvard College AB '59, and, ultimately, Harvard Graduate School of Education]. He served as an officer in the US Navy on a classified mission in anti-submarine warfare, and later taught history at Newton High School. In 1969 he became headmaster at the Park School in Brookline, thriving on the direct exposure to parents, full budgetary and hiring responsibility, and the opportunity to shape educational policy along with the unique chance to move and completely build a new campus for one of this area's oldest schools. Twenty-five years later he returned to Cambridge and was hired by the Cambridge Community Foundation as Executive Director*. Outside of work and enjoying his family (including 6 grandchildren), he most values his volunteer work with some 3000 volunteers through the Cambridge Senior Volunteer Clearinghouse, which he co-founded in 1994. Bob hosts a program about volunteer opportunities on CCTV's Channel 9 at 4PM on the 4th Friday of each month.

*CCF funds annually some $900,000 in grants and offers technical assistance to over 180 Cambridge-serving human service agencies. CCF also advises our universities, banks, and corporations how they might support these agencies.

Khari J. Milner has worked for more than eight years as the Director of Complementary Learning Partnerships for the Cambridge Public Schools. In this capacity he has designed, developed and implemented cross-system collaboratives aimed at supporting the in and Out-of-School-Time learning and overall needs of Cambridge students. He is also a founding member of the Young People's Project, an organization that uses Math Literacy as a tool to develop young learners, teachers, leaders and organizers, preparing them to radically change the quality of education and life in their communities so that all children have the opportunity to reach their full human potential. He has worked with young people and educators for more than seventeen years and his diverse experiences have included positions as curriculum developer, trainer of teachers, high school math instructor and public school administrator. He is a former Algebra Project student and current chair of its National Board of Directors; also, while living in Jackson, Mississippi, in the mid-1990s, he worked alongside middle grade students developing an Algebra Project math laboratory. He has been an educational consultant in Costa Rica and Tanzania while working with CHASE (Child Health and Social Ecology Program), an international children’s rights project connected to the Harvard University Medical School. He has earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1994), and a Master’s Degree in Education from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education (1998). Khari is a native of Cambridge (King Open '86, CRLS/Pilot School '90), where he currently lives with his wife, Tanya, two children, Zinzi and Kossi, and a brackish tank filled with fish, including Spiderman and Storm, who can be shy, but are very accurate spitters. He was also a two-time Massachusetts State Champion swimmer ('89-'90).