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.

CHAMPION

Outten & Golden LLP

BENEFACTOR

1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East

PACESETTER

Communication Workers of America District 1

Hecker Fink LLP

MetroPlus Health

Miranda Family Fund

NewYork-Presbyterian

Spivak Lipton LLP

ACTIVIST

Duane Morris LLP

Mayer Brown LLP

New York State Nurses Association

Ugalde & Rzonca LLP

PATRON

32BJ SEIU

Betsy MacLean and Eric Miles 

Community Service Society

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

Gladstein, Reif and Meginniss LLP

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Perkins Coie LLP

Pu-Folkes Law Group

SCCS Group

HOST COMMITTEE

Ana María Archila & Daniel Altschuler

Claude Arpels & Winsome Brown

Jessica Bauman & Ben Posel

Susan & Ben Baxt

Jeremy Benjamin & Jaya Vasadani

Nadia & Robert Bernstein

Rhea Fontaine

Chris Jones & Amy Gillman

Tricia Kakalec

Donna Katzin & Alan Altschuler

Jennifer & Ian McAllister-Nevins

Mac McCarty & Grant Ginder

Karen Mejia & Jerry Maldonado

Amy Taylor & Peter Markowitz

Javier H. Valdés & Tina Habib

Marc Weiss & Nancy Meyer