Thursday, October 15, 2026
6-9PM | Cocktail Party
Gowanus – Brooklyn NY
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
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. We’re so excited to see you there.
Sponsors
CHANGEMAKER
Tom Cramer and Michèle Burger
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
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
Jose Lopez
Tony Marx
Jennifer & Ian McAllister-Nevins
Mac McCarty & Grant Ginder
Vincent McGee
Karen Mejia & Jerry Maldonado
Arlenis Morel
Scott Milstein
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
