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