2025 Dignity, Community and Power Awards Gala

Thursday, October 16, 2025

6-9PM | Cocktail Party

Gowanus – Brooklyn NY

HONORING

Brad Lander, New York City Comptroller

Chase Strangio, Co-Director, ACLU LGBTQ & HIV Rights Project

CHIRLA, The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, Los Angeles

Join Make the Road New York for our annual Dignity, Community, and Power Awards Gala an inspiring evening with movement leaders, allies, and supporters over delicious food and drinks, music, and dancing.

As our movement and our communities continue to endure relentless attacks, it’s more important than ever to come together and celebrate our collective power, resilience, and victories. Join us for a very special evening – we can’t wait to see you.

BENEFACTOR

1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East

Outten & Golden LLP

PACESETTER

Communication Workers of America District 1

Hecker Fink LLP

MetroPlus Health

Miranda Family Fund

NewYork-Presbyterian

Spivak Lipton LLP

ACTIVIST

Duane Morris LLP

New York State Nurses Association

PATRON

Betsy MacLean and Eric Miles 

Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP

Hispanic Federation

M&T Bank

NYC Health + Hospitals

NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst

United We Dream

Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union

Wang Hecker LLP

FRIEND

Andrea Steele Architecture

Barry Commoner Center for Health & the Environment, Queens College, City University of New York

BlueHub Capital

Brown & Brown

Center for Constitutional Rights

Cohen, Weiss & Simon LLP

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Pu-Folkes Law Group

SCCS Group

HOST COMMITTEE

Ana María Archila & Daniel Altschuler

Claude Arpels & Winsome Brown

Jessica Bauman & Ben Posel

Jeremy Benjamin & Jaya Vasadani

Nadia & Robert Bernstein

Tricia Kakalec

Jennifer & Ian McAllister-Nevins

Amy Taylor & Peter Markowitz

Javier H. Valdés & Tina Habib

Marc Weiss & Nancy Meyer