Evening of Readings & Gala Dinner
Monday, June 9, 2025
Pier Sixty, New York City
6:30 PM
Honorees
Special Guest
Sponsors
VISIONARY
The Joan Ganz Cooney Fund
TRAILBLAZERS
IAC Charitable Foundation
Cynthia McFadden
Elizabeth T. Peabody
Penguin Random House
PATRONS
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Sonia Chaliha & Anne Boyle
Joni Evans & Bob Perkins
Courtney E. K. Lewis &
Keelan Lewis
Marshall Wace
News Corp
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLC
Lesley Stahl
John Studzinski
BENEFACTORS
Lauren & Dan Bresler
Todd Builione
DLA Piper
Danielle & David Ganek
Kristina Hammond &
Mike Cassidy
HarperCollins
W. Ross Honey
LexisNexis
MacKenzie Partners, Inc
Macmillan Publishers
Newmark
Nicholas Nielsen
Oliver Wyman
Paul, Weiss
Jordan Pavlin
Seward & Kissel LLP
Finley & Patrick Shaw
Calvin Siemer
Simon & Schuster
The Venetian Resort
Las Vegas
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen
& Katz
Writers House
PARTNERS
Katharine Raymond Hinton
RyAnn & Richard Hooper
Lawrence A. Jacobs
Judy & Leonard Lauder
Elizabeth Owens
Rattner Family Foundation,
Inc.
Lucinda & John Rosso
Senator Olympia Snowe
& Governor Jock McKernan
Alice & Thomas Tisch
The Travelers Companies, Inc.
SUPPORTERS
Nancy Burstein
Vicki Downey
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Louise Grunwald
Hernan Lopez Family
Foundation
Anne Higonnet
Grey Hirschfeld
Intrinsic Technology Group
Randy Jones
Sara Litt
Henry McGee
Nina von Moltke
The Morrison & Foerster
Foundation
Sheila Nevins
Peri Peltz
Ali Ramis
ReaderLink
Lynn Savarese
Patricia Searby
FRIENDS
Amy Baird
Cynthia Cannell
Cosmo Corigliano
Susan Crater
Lee Eastman
Kofi Effah
Kim Gilhool
Herman Gray
Ellen and Robert Grimes
Colette Harron
Janis Harwell
Debra James
Bob Kaiser & Hannah Jopling
Josephine Andal Kaye
Harold Koplewicz
Mihae Lee
Duby McDowell
Alfred & Melissa Morris
Joel Motley
Hope Pingree
Donna Satow
Marcy Smith
Patricia Smith
Erica Tannen
Matthew Thomas
Inez Weinstein
Jake Whitman
Edna Kane Williams
Listing as of June 5, 2025
Gala Committee
GALA CO-CHAIRS
Courtney E. K. Lewis
Cynthia McFadden
GALA COMMITTEE
Tinika Brown Davis
Joni Evans
Jordan Pavlin
Elizabeth Peabody
Katharine Raymond Hinton
John Rosso
Finley Shaw
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