AI Justice 20th Anniversary Celebration and Annual Awards Dinner

Raising funds to protect and promote the basic human rights of immigrants

AI Justice held its 20th Anniversary Celebration and Annual Awards Dinner on February 26th. The theme, “Upholding the American Dream,” celebrates the dreams of freedom, justice and opportunity that have brought immigrants to our shores since our nation’s beginnings. AI Justice’s guests enjoyed a moving and celebratory evening which started with a cocktail reception and silent auction and concluded with a dessert lounge with live music. During dinner, guests were inspired by the remarks of Janet McAliley, recipient of The Holly Skolnick Human Rights Award, and Dr. Zakia Subhani, recipient of The America’s Immigrant Spirit Award. Michael Putney entertained guests as the MC and Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist, Sonia Nazario, delivered a powerful Keynote Address. The efforts of Honorary Chairs, Sharon Kegerreis & Mitchell Berger, and Dinner Host Committee Chairs, Diana & Khalid Mirza, helped to ensure the evening was a success. A generous $50,000 matching grant from the TriMix Foundation provided further inspiration for support of AI Justice’s critical work.

The generous sponsors of this year’s event were:

Platinum Level: AutoNation; Bacardi; Berger Singerman; Green Family Foundation; and The Jose Milton Foundation

Gold Level: Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP; The Children’s Movement of Florida; Duane Morris, LLP; Greenberg Traurig, LLP; Jepeway & Jepeway, P.A.; Morrison, Brown, Argiz & Farra, LLC.; Palmetto Subacute Care Center; Stearns, Weaver, Miller, Weissler, Alhadeff & Sitterson, P.A.; Turkish Airlines; White & Case, LLP.

Silver Level: American Textile; Paulina Holguin & Keith Askins; De La Hoz, Perez & Barbeito, P.A.; Maria M. Buch, M.D.; Jodi Engelberg and Jurg Zundel; Jamila & Mohammad Tahir Ismail; Jones Day; Behna & Laurence Gardner, M.D.; Ellen Leesfield, ADR & Pam Perry, Esq.; Raquel M. Matas & Dr. Carla S. Lupi; Janet R. McAliley; Miami Dade College Foundation; Jane & Norman Moscowitz; National Marketing Group Services, Inc.; Northern Trust; Johanna Oliver Rousseaux; Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP; St. Thomas University School of Law; Richard Strafer; TotalBank; Peter Upton; Rev. Priscilla Felisky Whitehead; Zakia & Mian Family Charitable Foundation