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Disability Rights Advocates New York Gala
The Next 25 Years: Civil Rights and Inclusion for All

Recognizing extraordinary innovators working to ensure people with disabilities can participate fully.

Monday, October 21, 2019
American Museum of Natural History
West 81st Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue

Conversation and drinks in the Cullman Hall of the Universe followed by dinner under the iconic blue whale in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life

6:30pm / Cocktail Reception
7:30pm / Dinner and Program

Eagle Award Recipients
Loreen Arbus, President, The Loreen Arbus Foundation &
The Goldenson-Arbus Foundation
Bank of America
Jill Houghton, President and CEO, Disability:IN

Master of Ceremonies
Rebecca Alexander, LCSW-R, MPH

Distinguished Guests
Evan A. Davis, Senior Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Cynthia Nixon, Actor and Activist
Maysoon Zayid, Comedian, Actress and Disability Advocate


DRA would like to thank our generous sponsors.

For more information about sponsorship and tickets, please contact the Gala Office at: (212) 249-6188 or [email protected].

With offices in New York and California, Disability Rights Advocates (DRA) is the leading nonprofit disability rights legal center in the nation. Our mission is to advance equal rights and opportunities for people with disabilities. DRA represents people with disabilities whose civil rights have been violated. We identify and eliminate barriers in partnership with a broad network of local and national client organizations, on behalf of persons with the full spectrum of disabilities, including sensory, mobility, cognitive, and psychiatric.  DRA never charges its clients for representation. In the organization’s 26-year history of success, DRA has taken on more than 500 cases and won almost all of them!