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Deven Parekh is a Managing Director at Insight Venture Partners. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Economic Club and Greater NY Partnership. Deven was named a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, which seeks to develop the next generation of community-spirited leaders. He is a Trustee and Executive Committee member for the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, and Chairman Emeritus of Publicolor.

Sherrie Westin is President of Global Impact and Philanthropy at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, where she leads the Workshop’s efforts to serve vulnerable children through mass media and targeted initiatives. Westin was named a “Leading Global Thinker” by Foreign Policy Magazine, one of Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business,” and recognized with the Smithsonian’s American Ingenuity Award.

Event Chairs

Liz and Matt Luckett

Michelle Noris

Capitale

130 Bowery, New York City

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

6:30 PM - Reception

 7:30 PM - Dinner

Performance by young musicians, 

remarks by honorees and KidSpirit youth editors, live auction

Festive Attire

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KidSpirit is a nonprofit online magazine and community by and for youth to engage each other about life’s big questions in an open and inclusive spirit. Its mission is to promote mutual understanding among 11-to-17-year-olds of diverse backgrounds and support their development into world citizens with strong inner grounding.

Special Thanks to Our Early Supporters

Voyager

Anonymous

Explorer

Karen Humphries Sallick*

Seekers

Mrs. Lewis M. Dabney

Elizabeth Dabney Hochman*

and Jonathan* Hochman

District Capital Partners

Evercore Partners Services East LLC

FT Partners

The Rev. Kristin Kaulbach Miles*

Joseph L. Murphy

Deven and Monika Parekh

Schindler Cohen & Hochman LLP

The Schlosstein/Hartley Family Foundation

Sherrie and David Westin

Wayfarers

Michelle Noris† and Josh Weitzman

UBS Americas, Inc.

Barry Walker

Sesame Workshop

Goldman Sachs & Co.

Golub Capital LLC

Ann Hughes*

Matthew J.† and Elizabeth† Luckett

Adventurers

Tom Inck and Wendy Blattner

Jane* and Terry Quinn

Janice* and Tom Roddenbery

Eliza and Jim Rossman

Rabbi Joshua Stanton* and Mirah Curzer

Trinity Wall Street

2018 KidSpirit Awards Committee

Seth Appel

Norma Arnold

Josh Aronson and Maria Bachmann

Jeffery Bistrong

Jon and Laura Bloomberg

Gordon Caplan, in honor of Deven Parekh

Stuart Cowan

Paula Deitz Morgan

Geoffrey Dorfman and Tracey Jones

Martha Eckfeldt

Anne S. Edwards

Mitzi and Warren Eisenberg

Lucy and Bill Farland

Dr. Frances Faro and Eric Faro

Dan Fast and Leah Zucker

Susan and Leonard Feinstein

Sheryle and Patrick* Gaston

Global IDs, Inc.

Nancy Gutman

and Howard Schrader

Andy and Robin Hafitz

David Hazan and Srenica Munthree

Alexes Hazen, MD

Adolf and Patty Herst

Paul Hinton and Andrea Philips

Emile Karafiol and Virginia Robinson

Vrinda Khanna and Robert Schultz

Valarie Lamour

Ray Lohier and Donna Lee

Los Niños Services, Inc.

Laurie Lowrance

Sandy McLeod and  Ryushin Marchaj

David Mayhood

Melissa Mcham Green

James Miller

Kammy Moalemzadeh

Nicholson & Galloway Inc.

Jonathan and Bea Plasse

Jeremy Primer

Ernest and Barbara Oskin

Princeton Global Asset Management, LLC

Kristine Quinio and Rex van der Riet

Arlene Scanlon and David Squires

Jan Schmidt and Mark Goetz

James Shaheen

Debi and Jay Shaw

Philip Simon

Helen Tworkov

Seth Weitzman and Jill Bleemer

Ellen Wolf and Bill Schwartz

Maggie Xu

Information as of 11/6/18

*KidSpirit Board of Directors

2018 KidSpirit Awards Event Chairs

Contact

Justine Woods

Justine@kidspiritonline.com

(718) 878-3900

kidspiritonline.com

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