Velma Wilson, a community volunteer from Antioch and a Census 2020 field supervisor who was cited for her outreach efforts to hard-to-count people from some of Contra Costa County’s toughest areas, has been honored as Contra Costa County’s 2021 Humanitarian of the Year.

And Kimyatta Newby, a member of the San Pablo Youth Commission and a freshman attending classes virtually at Howard University in Washington, D.C., was named the county’s 2021 Student Humanitarian of the Year.

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