On Monday, February 27, The IDEAL School of Manhattan will host their 18th Annual Gala, "Moving Our World," at Pier Sixty in New York City. The evening's host is author and award-winning journalist Genevieve Shaw Brown. The honorees are social justice advocates Judith Heumann, Charles Imohiosen, Heidi Latsky, Robert Rodriguez, and Katheryn Russell-Brown. The benefit will feature cocktails, dinner, dancing, a raffle, and an auction.  The IDEAL School is New York’s only independent inclusion school dedicated to creating a diverse community that affirms and accepts the full identities of all people while inspiring academic excellence, creative leadership, and a desire to build a more just and equitable world. Tickets begin at $400. For more information and tickets, go to https://one.bidpal.net/idealgala2023.

Hosted by award-winning journalist Genevieve Shaw Brown, this year’s theme is “Moving Our World,” and will honor five amazing human rights advocates!

· Judith Heumann, acclaimed disability rights activist, author, teacher, featured in award-winning documentary Crip Camp;

· Heidi Latsky, acclaimed, innovative, and influential leader in physically integrated dance;

· Charles Imohiosen, President and CEO of The Andrew Goodman Foundation;

· Robert Rodriquez, New York Secretary of State;

· Katheryn Russell-Brown, social scientist, professor of law, and director of the Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations at the University of Florida Law School