Inaugural Diaspora Leadership Awards Gala
Schedule
Thu Sep 29 2022 at 06:30 pm
Location
New York, New York | York, NY
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September 29, 2022, The African American Irish Diaspora Network will be hosting its Inaugural Diaspora Leadership Awards Gala. The event will honor four leaders of international stature in the spheres of social justice, scholarship, business leadership and advocacy: Mary McAleese, former President of Ireland and Chancellor of Trinity College Dublin, who will receive the Frederick Douglass-Daniel O’Connell Social Justice Award; Henry Lewis “Skip” Gates, Jr., Harvard University Professor and Executive Producer of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who will receive the AAIDN Inspiration and Vision Award; John Samuelsen, International President of the Transport Workers Union, who will receive the John Lewis-John Hume Leadership Award; and Fionnghuala “Fig” O’Reilly, 2019 Miss Universe Ireland and NASA Datanaut, who will receive the AAIDN Heritage and Diaspora Spirit Award. The event is co-chaired by two well-known members of the community, Miriam Nyhan Grey, founder of New York University’s Black, Brown and Green Voices Program, and Keith L. T. Wright, Director of Strategic Planning, Davidoff Hutcher & Citron, LLP.
Funds from AAIDN’s Inaugural Diaspora Leadership Gala will support our initiatives to develop and strengthen Irish and African American leaders of tomorrow, and to expand collaboration between the Irish and African Diasporas:
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https://www.aaidnet.org/gala
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Where is it happening?
New York, New York, ,New York,NY,United States, YorkEvent Location & Nearby Stays: