PathMakers to Peace 2024

The PathMakers to Peace award was established in 2013, to honor organizations and individuals who have played a leadership role in working to find non-violent resolutions to conflict. The name of our award, PathMakers to Peace, emphasizes that there are many roads to reaching the goal of a peaceful and just world.

At the 2024 PathMakers to Peace Gala on Thursday, December 5, 2024, we celebrated our 40th anniversary! The event was held in the beautiful social hall at Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Cathedral in Brooklyn Heights. Father Dominique Hanna welcomed us. BFP Board Member Michelle Smith emcee’d the event. Charlotte Phillips and Carolyn “Rusti” Eisenberg spoke, as did Board member Greg Kalvin. Eman Rashid presented the Gaza Ceasefire Signs Campaign (GazaSigns@.gmail,com.) Christine Yvette Lewis, pioneering organizer of Domestic Workers United and recipient of the 2924 Just Brooklyn Prize, concluded the program with her magnificent voice.

View the digital PathMakers to Peace program!

View photos of the event

View the video recording of the event: full-length or the highlights

Thank you to the Fundraising Committee: Multi Banerjee, Charlene Barker, Melissa Corbett, Ken Diamondstone, Sam Koprak, Fran Minichiello, Veronica Nunn, Charlotte Phillips, and Michelle F. Smith, and also to Ann Fawcett Ambia, Oliver Fein, Henry & Jaki Florshein, Ed Goldman, Eleanor Preiss, and Matthew Weinstein for their extra effort to make this event a success!

A heartfelt thank you to Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Cathedral for hosting us, and to Bassett Caterers for the delicious food!

Thank you to our sponsors for their contributions!

Trailblazers – $500 or more

Anonymous x2
Mohammed Nurhussein, M.D.
Charlotte Phillips & Oliver Fein
Drs. Marian E. Ronan & Keith A. Russell
Joyce Yu & Edward Lar

Supporters – $100 or more

Anonymous x4
Susan Andersen
Richard Blum
Jacqueline Cataldo
Glen DeLeon Job & Julie Byrne
Arnold Gore
Laura Jo Kramer-Carini
Jean Murphy & Bob Robbin
Molly Nolan
Eleanor Preiss
Stephanie Rugoff
Pamela Sass & Charles Berk
Eric Shtob
Michael & Debby Smith
Diana & Nader Souri
Vandra Thorburn

Peacemakers – $250 or more

Donald Bickford
Georgia Kingsley Guida
Judy Loebl & John Gordon
Joseph Ronan

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