Ten people will be honored as humanitarians by Marin’s Human Rights Commission at the county’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration on Jan. 22.

The commission’s humanitarian awards dinner will be from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Embassy Suites in San Rafael. Noah Griffin of Tiburon, a singer, author, teacher and publicist, will be keynote speaker.

The adult honorees include Linda Allen, director of Suicide Prevention Community Counseling who also manages the Family Service Agency’s grief counseling service; Maxwell Drever, a children’s welfare advocate who heads the Drever Family Foundation; Paul Fordham, deputy director of Homeward Bound of Marin; and Ruth Nenaber, program manager for the Manzanita Child Development Center in Marin City.

A posthumous award will go to the late Marin City activist Connie Marie Page.

A community service award will be presented to peace activist James “Jes” Richardson, founder of Bridge of Hearts.

In addition, youth awards will honor four senior students: Isabelle Gardner of Marin Catholic High School, an advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth; Nassim Kabbara of San Rafael High School, founder of the Bay Running Club; Jake Mates of Redwood High School, president of the school’s Gay, Straight, Transgender Alliance chapter; and Davon Smith of Tamalpais High School, a peer tutor active in the Black Student Union and Marin City’s Phoenix Project.

Tickets cost $50 and are available at www.marinhrc.org or by calling Kara Amestoy at 415-473-4172.