This year’s award goes to Raymond Two Hawks Watson, a Providence resident and the chief executive officer of the Providence Cultural Equity Initiative. 

The Foundation’s Innovation Fellowship was created to stimulate solutions by Rhode Islanders to Rhode Island challenges. Watson’s proposal won out over more than 200 other applicants. Raymond Two Hawks Watson stopped by the studio, along with Chris Barnett from the Rhode Island Foundation, to talk with RIPR’s Chuck Hinman about the award…A conversation with Raymond Two Hawks Watson and the Rhode Island Foundation’s Chris Barnett

Morning Edition Host Chuck became part of RIPR in 2012 after a career on commercial radio. He got his broadcasting start as an announcer for Off Track Betting Corporation in NYC. He’s been a news...