Complex sentence: He serves as Senior Advisor on civil rights at the United States Department of Homeland Security and was the recipient of DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson's Award for for Excellence in 2015 and State Department's 2016 Benjamin Franklin Award for Public Diplomacy.
Split into simpler sentences: He serves as Senior Advisor on civil rights at the United States Department of Homeland Security. In 2015 he received DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson's Award for for Excellence in 2015 and the Department of State's 2016 Benjamin Franklin Award for Public Diplomacy.