Thank You!

The annual gala was a huge success! This is our only fundraiser of the year, and we raised more funds this year than during any previous year. We use these funds for voter outreach, candidate forums, community organizing and the essential work of turning people power into political power.

We honored three people who embody what this club stands for:

Jerry Nadler — our Congressman, our champion, the founding father of this very club. He has been our sword and our shield in Washington. We send him off the only way he deserves: surrounded by the people whose lives he made better.

Larry Wood — decades of tireless advocacy at Goddard Riverside, quietly improving lives with zero need for credit. And the best news? He is joining us. His skills aren’t going anywhere.

Victoria Lee — Treasurer of the UFT and the first Asian American officer of the UFT. A ceiling shattered. A door opened.

Thank you to WSD members who organized the event: Suzanne Jacobson, Co-Chair Janice Oppenheimer, and Bridget Amatore, Judy Bader-York, Susan Gwertzman, Valerie Horst, Richard Oppenheimer, Jay Rosen, and Joan Paylo.
And Arte Café and its wonderful staff.

Event Sponsors

Hon. Jerry Nadler & Hon. Joyce Miller

Hon. Linda B. Rosenthal

NY State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli

United Federation of Teachers

Hon. Micah Lasher

Hon. Joan Madden & Joel Peister

Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal

Hon. Shaun Abreu 

State Senator Erik Bottcher

Hon. Gale Brewer

Hon. Scott Stringer & Elyse Buxbaum

Hon. Helen Freedman & Henry Freedman

Bridget Amatore

Judith Bader-York, Esq.

Claire Botnick

Alan Channing 

Polly Cleveland 

Ruth & Joe Dalven

Mark Diller & Marie Fenter

Laura Dunn

Stephanie Ruskay

Richard Guberman

Joseph Golden

Hon. Rob &  Hon. Shari Gottheim

Ray Hodell

Valerie Horst

Hon. Suzanne Jacobson

Elizabeth & Douglas Kellner

Jacob Kimbarow 

Gregory Kirsopp

The Landis Family

Stephanie Lasher

Benjamin Marcus

Eli Northrup

Hon. Janice & Hon. Richard Oppenheimer

Stephanie Pinto

Elizabeth Reingold

Mathew Shurka

George Silver, Esq.

Chaim Steinberger, Esq.

Hon. Lynn Thomas