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2020 Honorees

  • Bennett

    Georgette Bennett

  • Roxane Gay

    Roxane Gay

  • Annette Insdorf

    Annette Insdorf

  • Lisa Lewin

    Lisa Lewin

  • Ann Rubenstein Tisch

    Ann Rubenstein Tisch

2020 Impact Award

  • Moise

    Dr. Tamara Moise

2023 Honorees

Jill Sharfstein

Jill Sharfstein

Jill Sharfstein is a proud daughter of Brooklyn. Married at 19 to Howard Sharfstein, and happily married for 54 years …
Jenny Sharfstein Kane

Jenny Sharfstein Kane

Jenny Sharfstein Kane leads the post-secondary education portfolio at Bloomberg Philanthropies …
Lauren Neustadter

Lauren Neustadter

Lauren Neustadter is President of Film and Television at Hello Sunshine. Since joining the company in 2017 as Head of Film and Television …
Jill Iscol z”l

Jill Iscol z”l

Activist, Educator and Author, Jill Iscol, EdD, was President of the IF Hummingbird Foundation …

2022 Honorees

Suri Kasirer

Suri Kasirer

Suri Kasirer is a born New Yorker and advocate. She founded Kasirer in 1997 out of a studio apartment on the Upper West Side …
Dr. Becky Kennedy

Dr. Becky Kennedy

Dr. Becky Kennedy is a clinical psychologist, bestselling author, and mom of three …
Erica Belsky, PhD

Erica Belsky, PhD

Erica Belskyis the co-founder and COO of Good Inside, a breakthrough parenting platformand media company …
Valeria Luiselli

Valeria Luiselli

Valeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa and India …
Jerelyn Rodriguez

Jerelyn Rodriguez

Jerelyn Rodriguez co-founded The Knowledge House, a Bronx-based tech-education nonprofit …

2021 Honorees

Misty Copeland

Misty Copeland

Misty Copeland is a Principal Dancer with American Ballet Theatre, the first black woman to be promoted to the position...

Elizabeth R. Leber, AIA

Elizabeth R. Leber, AIA

Elizabeth R. Leber, AIA is the Managing Partner at Beyer Blinder and Belle. Liz is dedicated to advancing mission-based institutions through forward-looking architecture and planning projects.

Esther Peterseil z"l

Esther Peterseil z"l

Esther Peterseil z"l was a survivor of the Auschwitz/Birkenau Concentration Camp. She came to America with her husband Joseph in 1949 and devoted her life working for the Jewish community...

Dorothy Tananbaum

Dorothy Tananbaum

Dorothy Tananbaum is former Principal of the Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York. She is Chair of the Board of the Israel on Campus Coalition...

Zoe Bernstein

Zoe Bernstein

Zoe Bernstein is a Consultant at Egon Zehnder based in New York City. Before joining Egon Zehnder, Zoe was the Director of Investor Relations for Adi Capital Management...

JoBeth Abecassis

JoBeth Abecassis

JoBeth Abecassis works as a Venture Partner based in NYC for the California based Venture Capital firm Western Technology Investments...

Mikayla Barnett

Mikayla Barnett

Mikayla Danielle Barnett currently serves as the Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Financial Officer of It’s a She Thing, Inc. Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Mikayla showed an early interest in entrepreneurship and community work...

Veronica Loomis

Veronica Loomis

Veronica Loomis was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She began her career in the Criminal Defense Division at The Legal Aid Society. During her tenure, she became engaged in the rights of all people...

2020 Honorees

Georgette Bennett

Georgette Bennett

Dr. Georgette Bennett is an award-winning sociologist, widely published author, popular lecturer, and former broadcast journalist …

Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay’s writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, Harper’s Bazaar, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American …

Annette Insdorf

Annette Insdorf

Annette Insdorf is Professor of Film at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, and Moderator of the popular Reel Pieces series at Manhattan’s 92Y, where she has interviewed over 250 film celebrities …

Lisa Lewin

Lisa Lewin

Lisa Lewin is a strategist and operating executive with 25 years of experience leading and advising private, public, and nonprofit sector organizations …

Dr. Tamara Moise

Dr. Tamara Moise

Dr. Tamara Moise is an advocate for ensuring access to high quality healthcare in underserved communities …

Ann Rubenstein Tisch

Ann Rubenstein Tisch

Ann Rubenstein Tisch is the Founder and President of The Student Leadership Network (formerly known as Young Women’s Leadership Network), a groundbreaking network of all-girls public schools …

2019 Honorees

Lisa Blau

Lisa Blau

Lisa Blau has spent the last decade as an active angel investor focused on consumer businesses, often in the health, wellness and active lifestyle space with a particular interest in supporting women-led entrepreneurial ventures …

Amanda Eilian

Amanda Eilian

Amanda Eilian is a General Partner and co-founder of __able Partners, a venture capital firm focused on early stage companies in the positive living space …

Shantell Martin

Shantell Martin

Shantell Martin’s work is marked by her trademark black-and-white, spontaneous freestyle compositions that break down walls between community and creator and immerse viewers in the creative process …

Judy Glickman Lauder

Judy Glickman Lauder

Judy Glickman Lauder is an internationally recognized photographer, humanitarian, and philanthropist …

Dre Thomas

Dre Thomas

Dre Thomas, 30, was raised in Los Angeles by a hardworking, service-minded single mom. Thomas works full time in the marketing department of WeWork, but she has become known for singlehandedly conceiving and launching Smile On Me …

2018 Honorees

Sharon Hite

Sharon Hite

Philanthropist

Sharon Hite is a philanthropist whose areas of focus range from supporting opera and classical music to protecting endangered wildlife and empowering vulnerable children to live their dreams …

Jennifer Hyman

Jennifer Hyman

Co-Founder and CEO, Rent the Runway

Jennifer Hyman is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Rent the Runway, a company that is disrupting the $2.4 trillion fashion industry by introducing clothing rental as a utility in women’s everyday lives …

Susan K. Stern

Susan K. Stern

Community and Political Activist

Susan Stern has been unflinchingly dedicated to Jewish communities across the globe for much of her life …

Judaline Cassidy

Judaline Cassidy

Feminist Plumber/Tradeswoman Activist

A plumber for more than 20 years, Judaline Cassidy is a proud member of Plumbers Local Union No. 1 of New York City …

2017 Honorees

Idil Ibrahim

Idil Ibrahim

Filmmaker, Writer and Social Activist

Ms. Ibrahim believes in the power of artists to reflect the times and to utilize storytelling to build bridges, and to heal, unite and educate …

Lois Whitman

Lois Whitman

Special Advisor to the Children's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch

Lois Whitman is the founder and former director (1994-2012) of the Human Rights Watch Children’s Rights Division …

Danielle Sheypuk, Ph.D.

Danielle Sheypuk, Ph.D.

Psychologist, Disability Rights Advocate, Model

Dr. Sheypuk has combined her psychologist’s expertise with her bedrock sense of social justice to advocate on behalf of the mainstreaming of Americans with disabilities, in the context of their professional, consumer, social and sexual lives …

2016 Honorees

Barbara Schwartz

Barbara Schwartz

Ph.D., Clinical Associate Professor, Programs in Early Childhood Special Education at NYU

Barbara Schwartz is a leading faculty member with the programs in Early Childhood and Early Childhood Special Education where she is engaged in teaching …

Leila Foulon

Leila Foulon

Student, Social activist and 92Y Teen Center

Leila Foulon is a 16-year-old high school junior; she is a social activist, budding scientist, photographer and a committed volunteer …

Amanda Nguyen

Amanda Nguyen

Founder and President of Rise

Amanda Nguyen is the Founder and President of Rise, a non-profit dedicated to protecting the rights of sexual assault survivors …

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