Rose Starr, President NASW-NYC, welcomes guests.

Master of Ceremonies, NY1 Senior Political Reporter, Dominic Carter,
speaks to guests about the importance of social workers

Special Guest, Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott, MSW

Robert Schachter, Executive Director NASW-NYC

Honoree, Isabel Ching, LMSW, Assistant Executive Director for Senior Services, Hamilton-Madison House,
with Dominic Carter and President Rose Starr.

Honoree, Willing Chin-Ma, Assistant Executive Director, Grand Street Settlement,
with Dominic Carter and President Rose Starr.

Honoree, Jamie Favaro, LMSW, Founder/Executive Director, Washington Heights CORNER Project, Inc.,
with Dominic Carter and President Rose Starr.

Honoree, Aminda Jacobs, LCSW, Transplant Social Worker, The Rogosin Institute, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, with Dominic Carter and President Rose Starr.

Honoree, Raysa S. Rodriguez, MSW, Senior Advisor on Children's Issues, Office of the Mayor of the
City of New York, with Dominic Carter and President Rose Starr.

Honoree, Stella V. Pappas, LCSW-R, ACSW, Chief Operating Officer, Institute for Community Living, Inc.,
with Dominic Carter and President Rose Starr.

Honoree, Kimberly A. Steinhagen, LMSW, Director, Geriatric Mental Health Alliance of New York,
with Dominic Carter and President Rose Starr.

Honoree, Lisa White, LMSW, Program Director, South Bronx Healthy Families, Bronx Lebanon Hospital; Psychotherapist, Northside Center for Child Development, with Dominic Carter and President Rose Starr.

Elaine Congress, Associate Dean, Fordham University, Sheldon Gelman, Dean, Yeshiva University Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Carmen Ortiz-Hendricks, Associate Dean, Yeshiva University Wurzweiler School of Social Work

Goussy Celestin’s Catalysts of Rhythm provided musical entertainment

Cao O, Executive Director/CEO of the Asian American Federation and Lala Straussner,
2nd Vice President NASW-NYC Board of Directors

Peter Beitchman, Chair, NASW-NYC Fund Raising Committee and
Elvira Gonzalez, Vice President, Puerto Rican Family Institute

Sandra Bernabei, NASW-NYC Board Member, Athena Moore, Associate Executive Director, Jennifer Jones Austin, Senior Vice President for Community Investment at United Way (formerly Family Coordinator, Mayor’s Office)
and Launa Kliever, Co-Chair, New Professionals Task Force

NASW-NYC Board Members: Carmen Collado, Martha Adams-Sullivan, Sandra Bernabei, seated with
Alison Franks, Co-Chair, New Professionals Task Force (third from left)

Athena Moore, Associate Executive Director, NASW-NYC, Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott,
Deborah Taylor, Director of Education & Youth Services, Mayor’s Office

Jennifer Crumpley, Chair of NASW-NYC’s Licensing Task Force, Karun Singh,
NASW-NYC Board Member, and Janis Hoffman, Honorable Mention

Ella Harris, NASW-NYC Board Member, Gail Nayowith, Executive Director of the Laurie M. Tisch Foundation, Elvira Gonzalez, Vice President, Puerto Rican Family Institute, and Launa Kliever, Co-Chair New Professionals Task Force

Jeanette Takamura, Dean, Allen Zweben, Associate Dean, and Marianne Yoshioka, Assistant Dean,
Columbia University School of Social Work

C. Warren Moses, Chief Executive Officer, and Phil Coltoff, Special Advisor and former CEO/Executive Director,
Children’s Aid Society

NYC Commissioner on Aging Edwin Méndez-Santiago and NASW-NYC Lobbyist Cynthia Dames of Dames-Reid, LLC.

NASW-NYC interns, Molly Bidol, Katie Barnett, and NASW-NYC staff member, Ammu Prashantini

Master of Ceremonies, NY1 Senior Political Reporter, Dominic Carter with wife, Marilyn

Honoree, Aminda Jacobs with husband, Brian, and in-laws Debbie and Mike Jacobs.

Honoree Willing Chin-Ma with staff member, Patricia Ortiz.

Honoree Lisa White with Athena Moore, Associate Executive Director NASW-NYC.

Honoree Jamie Favaro (second from left), with father, Jack, nominator Elizabeth Rogers, Robert Schachter,
Executive Director NASW-NYC, and Athena Moore, Associate Executive Director NASW-NYC

NASW-NYC President Rose Starr with honoree Raysa S. Rodriguez

Gail Nayowith, Executive Director of the Laurie M. Tisch Foundation with
Megan McLaughlin, 1st Vice President, NASW-NYC Board of Directors.

NASW-NYC Board Member, Kevin Lotz, with Alison Franks, Co-Chair New Professionals Task Force

Staff from the Institute for Community Living Inc., with honoree, Stella V. Pappas, second from right.

Mary Pender Greene, former President NASW-NYC, with Executive Director, Robert Schachter