It's official: The National Women's Law Center has been around for 50 years!

Over the past five decades, the fight for women’s equality and gender justice has been spearheaded by passionate organizers, artists, elected officials, lawyers, poets, and activists—people who dared to dream of a better way. And at every step along the way, their essential work has been supported by our generous donors and champions.

At our historic 50th Anniversary Gala, the National Women’s Law Center will celebrate some of those audacious innovators and disruptors with the Trailblazer Award—bringing together incredible presenters like AFL-CIO President Elizabeth Shuler, pioneering honorees like activist Mónica Ramírez, and many more changemakers.

We hope to see you there (and dressed to the nines) on November 12—to both commemorate our boundless progress in the past and our boundless imagination for the future.

Attire: Formal/black tie optional. Examples of appropriate attire: tuxedo or dark suit, evening dress, dressy cocktail dress, or dressy cocktail separates.

Covid Protocols: NWLC will implement COVID-19 prevention protocols at this event in keeping with current local guidance and the requirements of the venue. As of September 16, 2022, NWLC will require that guests be vaccinated per our current policy. Please reference The Kennedy Center COVID Safety Plan for their most up-to-date guidance.

Priya Aiyar
Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Chief Legal Officer
American Airlines

NWLC’s Board of Directors

Tonya Robinson, CHAIR
Vice Chair & General Counsel, Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance
KPMG LLP

Elizabeth H. Shuler, SECRETARY-TREASURER
President
AFL-CIO

Heather Conroy
Executive Vice President
Service Employees International Union

Daralyn Durie
Founding Partner
Durie Tangri LLP

Stacey Friedman
Executive Vice President and General Counsel
JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Meena Harris
Founder & CEO
Phenomenal

Anita F. Hill
Senior Advisor to the Provost and Professor of Policy, Law and Women’s Studies
Brandeis University

Margaret Huang
President and CEO
Southern Poverty Law Center

Garry Jenkins
Dean and William S. Pattee Professor of Law
University of Minnesota Law School

Deborah Slaner Larkin
Former CEO, Women’s Sports Foundation
Title IX Advocate

David Lopez
Professor of Law and Professor Alfred Slocum Scholar
Rutgers Law School

Melissa Murray
Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law
NYU School of Law

Kimberly Parker
Partner
WilmerHale

Mónica Ramírez
Founder & President
Justice for Migrant Women

Maya Rupert

Shirley Sagawa

Jane Sherburne
Principal
Sherburne PLLC

Clara J. Shin
Partner
Covington

Kristin Sverchek
President of Business Affairs
Lyft

Kelly Mahon Tullier
Vice Chair, Chief People and Administrative Officer
Visa

Fatima Goss Graves
President and CEO
National Women’s Law Center

As of 9/15/2022

Leadership Circle
Covington
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Goodwin Procter LLP
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
KPMG LLP
Morgan Lewis
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Transamerica

Groundbreaker
Comcast NBCUniversal
General Electric Company
Mastercard
Sidley Austin LLP
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Sullivan & Cromwell
Visa

Underwriter
AbbVie
AFSCME
Agile Therapeutics
AIG
Airbnb
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
Cooley LLP
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP
Kirkland & Ellis
Linklaters LLP
LYFT
Mayer Brown
McDermott, Will & Emery
Medicines360
Jayma M. Meyer
Organon
PepsiCo
Shearman & Sterling LLP
The Hirsch Family Foundation
Verizon

Pacesetter
Allen & Overy LLP
Caplin & Drysdale
Citi
Diane Milutinovich
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Outten & Golden
Ropes & Gray, LLP
The Sverchek Family
Williams & Connolly LLP
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation

Benefactor
ACLU
EagleBank
The Levinson Group (TLG)
The Steptoe Foundation

Friend
Diane Berinstein
Joan Entmacher
Jane Harman, Harman Family Foundation
Kathryn and Matt Haskin
Paid Leave for All
Nancy Withbroe & Paul Smolinsky

Contributions made through this event help further NWLC’s critical work to protect the rights of women and girls. To learn more about ticket and sponsor packages available for NWLC's 50th Anniversary Gala, please visit www.nwlc.org/donate/gala.

This event is an external rental presented in coordination with the Kennedy Center Campus Rentals Office and is not produced by the Kennedy Center.