2023 Dao Prize – Honorable Mention

Aaron Sibarium is a runner-up to the 2023 Dao Grand Prize and received $10,000 for his series on the both the Politicization of American Medicine and the Elites Behind DEI for the Washington Free Beacon. 

Aaron Sibarium covers law, education, and institutional capture as a reporter for the Washington Free Beacon. He has broken stories on corporate race discrimination, the race-based allocation of COVID drugs, the American Academy of Pediatrics, Princeton University, and Yale Law School. Aaron previously worked as an editor at the American Interest and earned a B.A. in Ethics, Politics, and Economics, magna cum laude, from Yale University.

Here are Sibarium’s reports that won him the prize:

The Hijacking of Pediatric Medicine, December 7, 2022

How Walmart Pushed Arkansas Public Schools to Go Woke, April 17, 2023

How Tobacco Companies Are Crushing ESG Ratings, June 13, 2023

They Support Sex Changes for Children, With Safeguards. A Top Child Psychiatry Group Won’t Let Them Speak at Its Annual Conference. August 11, 2023

How A Left-Wing Activist Group Teamed Up With Big Pharma To Push Radical Gender Ideology on American Hospitals, May 15, 2023

Food and Drug Administration Guidance Drives Racial Rationing of COVID Drugs, January 7, 2022

Utah Was Warned Racial Rationing of COVID Drugs Was Illegal. It Did It Anyway. May 9, 2022

Starbucks Hired Eric Holder To Conduct a ‘Civil Rights Audit.’ The Policies He Blessed Got the Coffee Maker Sued. July 27, 2023