RiseUp Legacy Award Honorees 2026
Honoring RiseUp Legacy Award Recipients
Each year, the RiseUp Wealth Summit honors a select group of extraordinary individuals who are not only walking in excellence, but leaving a lasting legacy behind them. Our 2026 RiseUp Legacy Award Honorees have been intentionally selected for their unwavering commitment to breaking generational chains, empowering communities, and building platforms that will impact generations to come.
These visionaries, entrepreneurs, educators, faith leaders, innovators, and community builders, lead with integrity, purpose, and measurable impact. They are the embodiment of legacy in motion. As we celebrate their journeys, we honor not only their success, but their sacrifices, resilience, and determination to rise so that others may rise too. This is more than an award. It is a declaration of legacy lived out loud.
Join us as we celebrate these iconic changemakers who continue to build what eyes haven’t seen and ears haven’t heard.
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RiseUp Legacy Posthumous Award Honorees 2026
Honoring RiseUp Legacy Award Recipients
Legacy does not end when life does. It begins when impact outlives presence. Long after voices fade, influence remains, and long after names are no longer called, values still speak. The lives of Denise Thomas and Michael Anderson remind us that legacy is not what we leave behind, but what we leave alive in others. Through faith, service, and unwavering commitment to purpose, their impact continues to ripple through generations.
Legacy Lives Here Inc. stands as a testament to that truth. Legacy lives in us, in the lives we touch, and in the values we carry forward. And one day, when our voices are silent, our lives will still be speaking. The question is not whether we will leave a legacy, but what our legacy will say. We honor their lives and the legacy that continues through others, and through the RiseUp Legacy Awards, we exist to preserve, celebrate, and elevate stories like these.