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Mayor Adler has received recognition for his innovative ideas and leadership. In Jan. 2018, Mayor Adler was elected Vice President of the National Council of Democratic Mayors. In Jun. 2017, his fellow mayors elected Mayor Adler a Trustee of the United States Conference of Mayors after putting him on the Advisory Board the previous year. In August 2016, Mayor Adler was voted by mayors surveyed by POLITICO Magazine as the co-winner of the Rookie of the Year award. In September 2016, Living Cities included Mayor Adler on the list of 25 Disruptive Leaders (along with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, author Ta-Nehihi Coates, and actor Jesse Williams) to mark that organization’s 25th anniversary. Also that month, his office’s application for a crowdsourced minibond campaign to save Austin’s iconic music venues was picked as one of five winners of the Neighborly Bonds Challenge. In September 2016, U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx named Austin one of the winners of the Mayors’ Challenge for Safer People, Safer Streets. Austin, which won for its Smart Trips Austin program in the Rundberg neighborhood, is the Mayors’ Challenge Ladders of Opportunity (Large City) Award Winner. In Nov. 2016, the readers of the Austin Chronicle named Mayor Adler the Best City Official and critics named him Best Drag Mother for his turn as Mother Ginger in Ballet Austin’s The Nutcracker. The readers of the Chronicle named him Best City Official again in 2017, and the Chronicle critics named him Most Devoted Pen Pal for his Wonder Woman letter. And in August 2017, Austin Monthly named Mayor Adler “Best Politician” for “fearlessly speaking up for Austinites [and] proving that a little snark goes a long way to support the morale of a community.” In May 2017, the U.S. Conference of Mayors presented Mayor Adler with the Small Business Advocate Award for his dedication to the small business community. In Dec. 2017, Foreign Policy named Mayor Adler to its 2017 list of Global Thinkers “for standing up for immigrants in the heart of … Texas.” That same month, the Anti-Defamation League of Austin gave Mayor Adler and First Lady Diane Land the Ray and Audrey Maislin Humanitarian Award. |