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LEAD Annual Benefit Gala - June 27, 2024

We thank the sponsors and attendees who participated in the event!

Photos coming soon!


HOST COMMITTEE  


Taj A. Brown I Arthur Lee Butler I Dr. Janet Dewart Bell
Catherine Chadwick I Joyce S. Johnson I Rosia Blackwell Lawrence
Dr. Naomi Nightingale I Gail Wright Sirmans

Dr. Kitty Muldoon Steel and Lewis Steel 


Please join us at New York's Chez Josephine for dinner and showcase musical performances as we honor Carol Jenkins and Damien Sneed.


Proceeds from this benefit provide LEAD with critical support as we continue the fight for social justice and relaunch our LEADing Justice podcast hosted by Dr. Janet Dewart Bell.

Carol Jenkins

Carol Jenkins

Carol Jenkins

  • Legendary Journalist, Humanitarian, and Activist 
  • Host, Black America
  • Co-Founder and Co-Host, The Invisible Americans Podcast, a nonprofit communications project to end US child poverty
  • Board Chair, Former President/CEO of the ERA Coalition
  • Founding President of the Women’s Media Center
  • Co-author, with daughter Elizabeth Gardner Hines, Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire

Damien Sneed

Carol Jenkins

Carol Jenkins

  • Multi-genre recording artist, pianist, vocalist, organist, composer, conductor, arranger, producer, and arts educator whose work spans multiple genres 
  • Collaborated with many musical legends including Aretha Franklin, Jessye Norman, Wynton Marsalis, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Ashford & Simpson and many others
  • 2020 Dove Award winner
  • 2021 NAACP Image Award winner for his work as a featured producer and writer on the Clark Sisters’, “The Return”

Brandie Sutton

Performing with Damien Sneed is renowned multi-genre artist soprano Brandie Sutton, “radiant" (The New York Times), "sweet and powerful and pure"(Broadway World), "expressive" and "glistening" (Opera Today). 

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