Image:"2022 Disability Rights Advocates Gala, featuring emcee Amna Nawaz" + Portrait of Amna Nawaz
Advocating from the Heart, Raising All Boats
Thursday October 6th 4pm PT / 7pm ET
This year’s gala will feature an impactful lineup with a specific focus on intersectionality and how disability rights truly are part of the current and future civil rights movement focused on achieving full equality for all.
Award Winners
BILLY PORTER
Ally Award
KARLA GILBRIDE
Edith Prentiss Award
Co-Director of Access to Justice Project, Public Justice
DANIEL L. BROWN
Leadership Action Award
Pro-Bono Partner, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
Image: Portrait of Billy Porter
Image: Portrait of Karla Gilbride
Image: Portrait of Daniel L. Brown
Featuring a Panel of
Civil Rights Lawyers
QUDSIYA NAQUI
Moderator
Creator and Host, Down to the Struts
SUSAN MIZNER
ACLU Disability Rights Program Director
OLU K. ORANGE
Orange Law Offices, P.C.
Director, USC Dornsife Trial Advocacy Program
REBECCA WILLIFORD
Acting President & CEO/Deputy Director of Litigation,
Disability Rights Advocates
Image: Portrait of Qudsiya Naqui
Image: Portrait of Olu K. Orange
Image: Portrait of Susan Mizner
Image: Portrait of Rebecca Williford
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"Game Changer Sponsors:" + Proskaur logo + Wells Fargo logo
"Justice Seeker Sponsors:" + CSAA logo + "Bob and Colleen Haas" + "Lucy Lee Helm" + "Allison May & Ky Tran-Trong"
"Champion Sponsors:" + "Loreen Arbus" + First Republic logo + Google logo + Keker Van Nest & Peters logo + Microsoft logo + Shartsis Friese logo + Sheppard Mullin logo + "Scott & Christine Smigel" + Starbucks logo + TikTok logo
"Advocate Sponsors:" + Ares logo + "Brian & Louise Frumkin" + Goldman Sachs logo + "Barb Izzo" + Outten & Golden logo + "Ira & Paula Resnick" + RBGG logo
"Rabble Rouser Sponsors:" + "Astor Street Foundation" + Bender logo + deaffriendly logo + Filice logo + GBDH logo + Kazan logo + "Kathi Pugh & Josh Maddox" + "Michael Stanley"
