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Homero Rosado
Leadership Award
On an annual basis in June, the Spanish Speaking Elderly
Council-RAICES holds a benefit to honor
outstanding individuals who have worked to improve the quality
of life of minority and immigrant older adults.
Honorees are presented the “Homero Rosado Leadership
Award”.
The benefit also serves as a fund raising
opportunity through the purchase of tickets, space in the
souvenir journal and donations. For
information, please contact us at 718-643-0232, ext. 223 or
email us at Gala@Raices.US
Past
Honorees
2009
- Mr. Tony Yang-Lewis,
MS, LNHA
Administrator, Cobble Hill Health Center
- Ms. Violeta Maya
Board of Trustees, Sunset Park Health Council - Lutheran
Family Health Centers
2008
- Dr. William A. Lois,
M.D.
Director of Surgery, Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center
- Dr. Evelyn Reyes
Laureano, PhD, LMSW
Executive Director, SHOPP
- Hon. Felix Ortiz
NYS Assembly Member
2007
- Ms. Marilyn Gelber
Executive Director, Independence Community Foundation
Hon.
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
NYS Secretary of State
Dr.
F. Russell Kellogg, M.D.
Chairman, Dept. of Community Medicine
St. Vincent’s Hospital-Manhattan
2006
- Rose Dobrof, DSW
Founding Director, Brookdale Center on Aging
- Tonio Burgos
President, Tonio Burgos & Associates and NYPROCOA, Inc.
- Wendy Z. Goldstein
CEO & President, Lutheran HealthCare
2005
- Rita Battles
President & CEO, Long Island College Hospital
- Alan D. Aviles, Esq.
President & CEO, NYC Health & Hospitals Corp.
- Lillian
Rodriguez-Lopez
President, Hispanic Federation
2004
- Jane Gould
President & CEO, Visiting Nurse Regional Health Care System
(VNR)
- Ramón Zayas
Co-Anchor, WNJU Channel 47
- Hon. Velmanette
Montgomery
NYS Senator, 18th Senatorial District
2003
- Nancy D. Miller
Executive Director, VISIONS
- Jim Stiles
Executive Vice President, Lutheran Medical Center
- Louis Vazquez
Executive Director, R.A.I.N.
2002
- Hon. Edwín Méndez-Santiago
Commissioner, New York City Department for the Aging
- Linda Brady
CEO, Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center
- Hector Ramos
Editor In Chief, G.A.L.O.S.
Corporation
2001
- Marian Noel
Seniors In Community Service Program
Urban League of Westchester County
- Donald A. Snider,
Ph.D.
Executive Director & CEO
James N. Jarvie Commonweal Service
- Maria Elena Girone
Executive Director, Puerto Rican Family Institute
2000
- Hon. Jeannette Gadson
Deputy Borough President of Brooklyn
- Carol Raphael
CEO, Visiting Nurse Service
- Rossana Rosado
Publisher & CEO, El Diario La Prensa
1999
- Hon. Julia T. Alvarez
Dominican Republic’s Representative to the United Nations
- Veronica L. Price
CNR Health Care Network
- Stanley Brezenoff
President, Maimonides Medical Center
1998
- Barbara P. Gimbel
Board Member, NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation
- Martin Gomez
Executive Director, Brooklyn Public Library
- Cesar A. Perales,
Esq.
Senior Vice President, Columbia Presbyterian
1997
- Rosa M. Gil, DSW
Chairperson, Health and Hospitals Corporation
- Suleika Cabrera
Drinane
Institute for Puerto Rican / Hispanic Elderly
- David R. Jones, Esq.
Community Service Society
1996
- Grace Harewood
Fort Greene Senior Citizens Council
- Igal Jellinek
Council of Senior Centers & Services
- Dennis Rivera
Local 1199
1995
- Stella Polanco-Rosario
Consolidated Edison
- Alexander Schlossberg
Wartburg Lutheran Services
- Calvin J. Simons M.D.
Medical Society Kings County
1994
- George Adams
Lutheran Medical Center
- Fabian Rivera
Brooklyn Union
- Paul Carr
Banco Popular
1993
- Hon. David Dinkins
Mayor
- Marianne Teta
NYNEX
1992
- Luis A. Miranda
Hispanic Federation
- Luz Towns-Miranda
Activist
- Rev. Melissa Gainey
Activist
1991
- Juan Castro
YMCA
- Emilie R. Corey
Activist
1990
- Lillian Beckford
Brooklyn Union
- Sr. Georgianna Glose
Brooklyn Wide IAC
1989
-
Hon. Howard Golden
Brooklyn Borough President
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