Honoring

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Featuring

Savion Glover
Performer

Whoopi Goldberg
Host

 

A Celebration of Freedom & Justice
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Cipriani Wall Street

Cocktail Reception | 6:30 p.m.
Dinner & Program | 7:30 p.m.
Festive Attire

Join us for an inspirational evening honoring exceptional heroes and partners in the Innocence Project’s fight to free the innocent and prevent future wrongful convictions. Hear from the freed and exonerated people whose stories are at the heart of our work and celebrate their return home.

To learn more about our honorees, click here

Contact the gala office at 646.842.1647 or [email protected]

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Gala Co-chairs

Alondra Nelson

Harold F. Linder Professor, Institute for Advanced Study

Sara Naison-Tarajano

Partner at Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

Tony Goldwyn

Actor, Director and Producer

Freedom & Justice Champion

Sara Naison-Tarajano and Orestes Tarajano / Goldman Sachs Gives

United Airlines

Visionary

Wendy Nacht and John Motulsky

Reformer

Anonymous

Adele Bernhard and Peter J. Neufeld

Kathryn O. Greenberg

Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Renee and John Grisham

Agnes Gund

Wilma and Howard Kaye

Jane Musky and Tony Goldwyn

Alondra Nelson and Garraud Etienne

Neufeld Scheck Brustin Hoffmann & Freudenberger, LLP

Vered Rabia

Dorothy Rick and Barry C. Scheck

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP - New York

Doris and Stanley Tananbaum Foundation / Andrew Tananbaum and Family

Leader

Anonymous / Goldman Sachs Gives

Cynthia and Paul Augustine

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Emma Freudenberger and Anna Benvenutti Hoffman

GFP Real Estate

Haynes Boone

Jenner & Block

Liz Martin / Goldman Sachs Gives

Mary Mattingly and Steve Reiss

Merrimac Corp.

The Morton Family

New York Jets Foundation

Jessica Roth and Ben Lawsky

Schulte Roth & Zabel, LLP

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Squire Patton Boggs

Jack and Kristalina Taylor

USClaims