Thursday, October 15, 2026
6-9PM | Cocktail Party
Gowanus – Brooklyn NY
The exact address is shared with registered guests only. Looking for event details? Search for “gala@maketheroadny.org” in your email inbox, and see here for general event information.
Tickets are sold out – thank you for your interest! We hope to see you at the gala next year.
Honoring
Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez
Peter L. Markowitz
Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law & Founder/Co-Director of the Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic
Maria Hinojosa
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist & Founder of Futuro Media
Sponsors
CHANGEMAKER
Tom Cramer and Michèle Burger
Vincent McGee
CHAMPION
Outten & Golden LLP
BENEFACTOR
1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Hecker Fink LLP
PACESETTER
Mayer Brown LLP
New York-Presbyterian
Resource Generation NYC
Spivak Lipton LLP
ACTIVIST
Betsy MacLean and Eric Miles
Duane Morris LLP
MetroPlus Health
New York State Nurses Association
Ugalde & Rzonca LLP
PATRON
32BJ SEIU
Cohen, Weiss & Simon LLP
Community Service Society
Covington & Burling LLP
Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP
Friedman, Levy, Goldfarb, Green, & Bagley PC
Katz Banks Kumin
Hispanic Federation
Metropolitan Park
M&T Bank
NYC Health + Hospitals
Pelton Graham LLC
Pu-Folkes Law Group
Trinity Church Wall Street
United We Dream
Virginia & Ambinder LLP
Wang Hecker LLP
Wyckoff Heights Medical Center
FRIEND
Andrea Steele Architrecture
Affinity by Molina
Ashurst Perkins Coie LLP
BlueHub Capital
Brown & Brown
Center for Constitutional Rights
Community Change
Greater NY LECET
HUB International Northeast
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Make the Road States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
NAKASEC
Puffin Foundation
Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union
United Hospital Fund
WilmerHale
Withum
Host Committee
Ellie Alter & Nathaniel Shapiro
Daniel Altschuler
Jessica Bauman & Ben Posel
Jeremy Benjamin & Jaya Vasandani
Nadia & Robert Bernstein
Madeline & Ed Carson
Oona Chatterjee
Sandy Coliver & Bob Sullivan
Andrew Friedman
Belle Horwitz & Jonathan Weiner
Tricia Kakalec
Elana Kravitz & Kobe Lewin
Donna Katzin & Alan Altschuler
Jamie Kessler
Jose Lopez
Tony Marx
Jennifer & Ian McAllister-Nevins
Mac McCarty & Grant Ginder
Vincent McGee
Karen Mejia & Jerry Maldonado
Arlenis Morel
Scott Millstein
Theo Oshiro
Public Health Solutions
Amy Taylor & Peter Markowitz
United Way of New York City
Javier H. Valdés & Tina Habib
Joanne Witty & Eugene Keilin
Sharon Wyse & Ray Palermo
