About

Make the Road New York’s annual Dignity, Community, and Power Awards Gala celebrates our organization and honors leaders who fight to achieve dignity and justice for immigrant and working-class communities.

Join us to celebrate our communities and honorees, and look ahead to the future we can, and must, collectively create. We’ll hear from our honorees & leaders in our movements, and reflect on our accomplishments over the past year. Come gather for a night of joyful celebration, music from DJ BEMBONA, delicious food and drinks, and activities including a silent auction of beautiful art pieces from community members – all to benefit our critical work.

As our most important fundraiser of the year, the Gala raises critical general operating support and gives us the opportunity to bring our members, staff, closest allies, and supporters together. Thank you for your support. Buy a ticket, sponsor, or post a journal ad today!

Getting There

10 Debrosses St, New York, NY 10013 – Google Maps Directions

Public Transportation: Canal Street Subway Stop off the 1/A/C/E Lines.

Car: Please note Tribeca 360 does not offer on-site parking.

Gala Artist and Design Concept

Abigail Miller is a graphic designer who works with movement organizations and nonprofits working for racial, economic and social justice. At the heart of her work is a commitment to sharing the power of art and design and demystifying technical expertise. Abigail was thrilled to work on the design concept for the 2024 Gala, inspired by the beauty and energy of the soon-to-be-revealed mosaic and mural at Make the Road’s new Queens Community Center, and local wildflowers and medicinal plants. Abigail lives in Brooklyn with her partner and cat.

The new Queens Center allows us to build on our community’s commitment to art as a form of, and tool for, protest, expression, and healing. We established a task force of art curators and artists with experience with public art, and with our community in particular. This task force helped facilitate an invited RFP process to select local artists to create the two original artworks in the auditorium. The artists — Street Theory / Marka 27 for the mosaic on and Parlante Visual for the mural — have engaged our community to develop the designs. Both artworks will be unveiled at our ribbon cutting ceremony.
This year’s gala design is inspired by the mosaic, which will be a permanent tile installation on the great steps in the auditorium, visible from the street. We are excited to share the artwork and our new casita very soon.