{"id":47965,"date":"2023-01-24T08:54:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T14:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/?p=47965"},"modified":"2023-01-24T08:54:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T14:54:58","slug":"asian-american-legal-defense-and-education-fund-lunar-new-year-gala-justice-in-action-awards-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/2023\/01\/24\/asian-american-legal-defense-and-education-fund-lunar-new-year-gala-justice-in-action-awards-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund &#8211; Lunar New Year Gala &amp; Justice in Action Awards Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) will hold its annual\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001nyLhtIFMhLxxKLVY5ZLBH_TCnQ7ukLIL5GmzW_apAhLBy5xLD8zS4IB6UWzQ65XuaEMo-Zy71F4Ls_qTiTcgJONweXl-VQVaGCbFRysD80OXmzBO4qPc9Gd4kZnUI3xm8_g4ZpJoZavfVyP97gsZuTiXB8xhFgBmlWdZmQdRdX1sclEsSsP3qlGzQspiGxJLlhCI65oY8ABA1Dl1usTziisTdJJIDhrKlE0qDifZ0bwNTp8qFrPQTb1tVR-lTStkocD8FGoSulAt1kp8E6fEE_grWuRJT1IC4wXyzoIQoB4=&amp;c=XMuhIQcY-_YnqZjM6Y8JsQ94BAR5DmrBIw5Q8lLOtEJnZboKF2osjg==&amp;ch=lcdw1iZ4DFgDM60Iuq_DPCxP0Rvip5t0mgBRlcv3dNL9r4A4YJ4JKg==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"0\">Lunar New Year Gala and Justice in Action Awards Celebration<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<b>Tuesday, March 14, 2023<\/b>.\u00a0We\u2019re excited to announce this year\u2019s gala will be in-person at Pier Sixty, Chelsea Piers, NYC with a live-streamed program to allow guests to join with a simple click from anywhere in the world!<\/p>\n<p>Our 2023\u00a0<em>Justice in Action<\/em>\u00a0Award recipients include\u00a0<strong>Rep. Grace Meng<\/strong>, representing the 6th Congressional District of New York;\u00a0<strong>Harsha Marti<\/strong>, Managing Director and General Counsel at Warburg Pincus; and\u00a0<strong>CeFaan Kim<\/strong>, ABC News correspondent and WABC-TV reporter. The AALDEF Justice in Action Awards recognize exceptional individuals for their outstanding achievements and efforts to advance social justice. Past honorees include the late Congressman John Lewis, Preet Bharara, John G. Chou, Ivan K. Fong, David Henry Hwang, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Vanita Gupta, Neal Katyal, Sandra Leung, Don H. Liu, Thomas Kim, Mira Nair, George Takei, BD Wong, Kal Penn, Ronny Chieng, and Fareed Zakaria, to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>We expect 500 leaders of the civil rights, legal, arts, and business communities from across the country to support AALDEF and to honor the\u00a0<em>Justice in Action<\/em>\u00a0award recipients. The evening will be filled with inspiring stories and remarks from our distinguished honorees. The evening\u2019s festivities will begin at 6:00 pm ET with a cocktail reception and silent auction, followed by dinner and the\u00a0<em>Justice in Action<\/em> awards presentation. For further information, email:\u00a0<a class=\"here\" href=\"mailto:events@aaldef.org\">events@aaldef.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) will hold its annual\u00a0Lunar New Year Gala and Justice in Action Awards Celebration\u00a0on\u00a0Tuesday, March 14, 2023.\u00a0We\u2019re excited to announce this year\u2019s gala will be in-person at Pier Sixty, Chelsea Piers, NYC with a live-streamed program to allow guests to join with a simple click from anywhere &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/2023\/01\/24\/asian-american-legal-defense-and-education-fund-lunar-new-year-gala-justice-in-action-awards-celebration\/\" class=\"more-link\">Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund &#8211; Lunar New Year Gala &amp; Justice in Action Awards Celebration<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-47965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-announcements","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}