Meet the Winners of the 2024 Blueprint Whistleblowing Prizes

  • Boeing Whistleblowers - John Barnett, Sam Salehpour, Roy Irvin, Joshua Dean, Sam Mohawk, Cynthia Kitchens and Santiago Paredes

    Multiple Boeing whistleblowers exposed the collapse of quality control in a safety critical industry, with repercussions that will be felt for years to come. They share the Blueprint North America Whistleblowing Prize for 2024

  • Robert Herold

    Pharmacist Robert Herold is the winner of the 2024 Blueprint Europe Whistleblowing Prize for raising the alarm about price gouging in the provision of chemotherapy in Germany

  • Sarah Kityo

    Sarah Kityo

    Sarah Kityo was harassed, threatened, jailed and fired as head of Uganda’s netball federation after she demanded accountability for alleged corruption at the highest levels. Sarah shares this year’s Blueprint Africa Whistleblowing Prize

  • Sarika Lakraj Naidoo

    Sarika Lakraj Naidoo

    Sarika Lakraj-Naidoo shares this year’s Blueprint Africa Whistleblowing Prize. She has paid a high price for more than a decade of blowing the whistle on wholesale looting at the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality

  • Dorothy Mmushi

    Dorothy Mmushi

    Eskom forensic manager Dorothy Mmushi was threatened by assassin when she started to identify suspect invoices. She shares the Blueprint Africa Whistleblowing Prize for 2024

  • Edward Francis Hall Teaching Hospital in Banjul, The Gambia

    Vivian Muoneke and Egbuna Olakunle Obidike

    Doctors Vivian Muoneke and Egbuna Olakunle Obidike averted the deaths of thousands of children worldwide by spotting that young patients in The Gambia were dying of kidney failure caused by toxic cough syrup. They share the 2024 Blueprint Africa Whistleblowing Prize

  • Mbuso

    Mbuso Ngcobo

    Mbuso Ngcobo faced attempts on his life after exposing municipal corruption in Durban, South Africa. He shares the Blueprint Africa Whistleblowing Prize for 2024

  • Ravo Ramasomanana

    Ravo Ramasomanana

    Ravo Ramasomanana went public about corruption in Madagascar’s public health service. He shares the Blueprint Africa Whistleblowing Prize for 2024

  • Scott Smith

    Scott Smith

    Scott Smith is the winner of the 2024 Blueprint Impact Award for Positive Social Change. He went above and beyond to help a community prove the deleterious impact of an environmental disaster in the pursuit of justice