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
BENEFACTOR
1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Hecker Fink LLP
PACESETTER
New York-Presbyterian
ACTIVIST
Betsy MacLean and Eric Miles
Ugalde & Rzonca LLP
PATRON
32BJ SEIU
Cohen, Weiss & Simon LLP
Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP
Friedman, Levy, Goldfarb, Green, & Bagley PC
Hispanic Federation
NYC Health + Hospitals
Pelton Graham LLC
Trinity Church Wall Street
United We Dream
Wang Hecker LLP
Wyckoff Heights Medical Center
FRIEND
Affinity by Molina
BlueHub Capital
Center for Constitutional Rights
Community Change
HUB International Northeast
Perkins Coie LLP
Make the Road States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Brown & Brown
United Hospital Fund
Host Committee
Ellie Alter & Nathaniel Shapiro
Daniel Altschuler
Jeremy Benjamin & Jaya Vasandani
Nadia & Robert Bernstein
Madeline & Ed Carson
Tony Marx
Jennifer & Ian McAllister-Nevins
Mac McCarty & Grant Ginder
Vincent McGee
Karen Mejia & Jerry Maldonado
Scott Milstein
Amy Taylor & Peter Markowitz
Sharon Wyse & Ray Palermo
