Radical Generosity Dinner 2023

Wednesday, October 4, 2023
6:00 - 9:00 PM

Guastavino's
409 E 59th Street
New York, NY 10022

Join us for the Radical Generosity Dinner on Wednesday, October 4, 2023.

If you need an accommodation to effectively participate at the Radical Generosity Dinner, please reach out to events@nywf.org by September 27, 2023.

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2023 Dinner Chairs

Helene Banks and Michael Cioffi

Karen Choi

Anne E. Delaney

Fiona and Stanley Druckenmiller

Lawanna Kimbro

Yvonne Moore

Martin and Jean Shafiroff

Lola C. West

Donna Wilson and Richard Brown

Honoring

Bisa Butler

Award-Winning African American Textile Artist

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Molly Gochman

Founder & President, Stardust and Artist

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Lorelei Williams

Executive Director Warner Music Group / Blavatnik Family Foundation Social Justice Fund

Read Bio > Lorelei Williams is a poet, proud mama and philanthropic strategist. She currently serves as Executive Director of the Warner Music Group / Blavatnik Family Foundation Social Justice Fund (“SJF”). The ten-year, $100M fund advances racial justice at the intersection of culture and systemic change. Lorelei has led the Fund in making $30M+ in commitments, built a global employee giving program across four Warner Music Group markets, and is seeding artist engagement opportunities with SJF grantees. Prior to joining the SJF, Williams served as Senior Vice President of Grant Programs at Comic Relief U.S., where she managed a $50M grantmaking portfolio across 38 countries, leveraging the power of entertainment to help address child poverty. While there, she increased Comic Relief’s investment in BIPOC organizations by 25%; inaugurated an international Youth Advisory Council; and launched a new grantmaking pillar focused on economic empowerment, providing thousands of low-income youth with access to job training, job placement and investment in youth-led social enterprises. Before Comic Relief, Williams spent more than 15 years working as a philanthropic strategist with a focus on the U.S., South America, and Sub-Saharan Africa. For many of those years, she was Principal of Onira Global Advisors, providing counsel on philanthropic strategy, fundraising, and program design to foundations and nonprofit organizations around the globe. Her clients included the Kellogg Foundation, Ford Foundation, Brazil Foundation, and The Brazilian Institute of Ethnic Media, among others. As a Fulbright fellow in Salvador da Bahia, Williams founded the POMPA project in partnership with the Steve Biko Institute to train Afro-Brazilian youth for public service careers. POMPA alumni have gone on to pursue careers in major philanthropic, media, government and civic organizations in the state of Bahia and beyond. Lorelei has also served as Co-Chair of the Civil Society Committee for the U.S. State Department’s U.S.-Brazil Joint Action Plan to End Racial Discrimination (JAPER). Writing has always been Lorelei’s first love. Her work has been recognized through fellowships from the Breadloaf Young Writers Conference, Cave Canem and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has performed at the Joe Papp Public Theater, Manenberg Jazz House in South Africa, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Nuyorican Poets Café, the Poet’s House, and other locations. Lorelei’s writings have appeared in Essence Magazine, Meridians Journal on Feminism, Race and Transnationalism, and African Voices, and in the anthologies Be the Dream (Algonquin Books); Beyond the Frontier: African-American Poetry for the 21st Century (Black Classic Press); Cave Canem III (Black Classic Press); Daddy Can I Tell You Something (Sela Press); and Guerreras y Cimarronas (University of Houston Arte Publico Press). Williams holds a B.A. from Yale University in Political Science and African American Studies and a master’s degree in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. She loves dancing, writing poetry and traveling throughout the Diaspora with her daughter.