Hailie Bonz, 17, from Urbandale, and Jemma Bullock, 18, from Ankeny, have been honored with the ACLU’s Robert Mannheimer Youth Advocacy Award. The Mannheimer Award, named in tribute to Des Moines attorney and civil liberties advocate Robert Mannheimer, gives a $500 cash prize to young Iowans demonstrating passion for civil advocacy. Both recipients, actively involved in student-led advocacy groups, orchestrated student walkouts against SF 496, a law that prohibits most books depicting sex acts in grades K-12 and restricts materials referring to gender identity and sexual orientation in grades K-6. Key provisions of the law were recently blocked by a federal judge. Read more about the award winners here.