Colm Kelleher Children and Youth

Advocates for Children of Ne w Yo r k

PROTECTING EVERY CHILD’S RIGHT TO LEARN

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SPRING BENEFIT MAY 24, 2017 Advocates for Children of Ne w Yo r k SPRING BENEFIT WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 2017

6:00 pm Cocktail Reception 7:15 pm Presentations

Welcome Cynthia McFadden hank you to the staff Senior Legal and Investigative Correspondent, NBC News of Advocates for Remarks Children of New York, Kim Sweet T Executive Director, Advocates for Children of New York for your unwavering dedication to securing a quality public Awards Presentation THE JILL CHAIFETZ AWARD education for New York City’s Colm Kelleher children and youth. President, Morgan Stanley PRESENTED BY Eugene A. Ludwig —AFC’s Board of Directors Founder and CEO, Promontory Financial Group, an IBM Company

THE EDUCATION CHAMPION AWARD Julian L. Centeno High School Student and AFC Client

PRESENTED BY Cynthia McFadden

Closing Remarks Eric F. Grossman Board President, Advocates for Children of New York Abja Midha Director, AFC’s Immigrant Students’ Rights Project THANK YOU FROM THE BOARD PRESIDENT SPRING BENEFIT LEADERSHIP

hank you so much for joining us for Advocates CO-CHAIRS for Children of New York’s 2017 Spring Benefit. Welcome! James J. Benjamin, Jr. David Meister T Akin Gump Strauss Hauer Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher There has been a lot of discussion recently about the & Feld LLP & Flom LLP qualities of a good leader. Expertise, empathy, passion, resolve, and vision are some key elements that most of us Matt Berke Susan L. Merrill want in those we trust to lead us. Since 1971, AFC has Morgan Stanley Sidley Austin LLP embodied all of these qualities, a leader in the fight to ensure William D. Briendel Jonathan D. Polkes that all children in NYC have access to a quality education Eric F. Grossman Greenberg Traurig, LLP Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP that meets their learning needs, regardless of their disability, President, Board of Directors, poverty, race, or other factors beyond their control. Advocates for Children Bradley J. Butwin Thomas J. Reid As we gather to celebrate our many successes of 2017, of New York O’Melveny & Myers LLP Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP the fight to protect every student’s right to learn is as fierce as ever. The students AFC serves are at increased Eric F. Grossman Dan Ryan risk of being marginalized and forgotten. Thanks to the Morgan Stanley PwC generosity and faith of our donors and funders, however, Kimberley D. Harris Daniel F. Schubert AFC will be strong and ready to fight with and for the NBCUniversal Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale thousands of students and families who will turn to us and Dorr LLP in the coming year for the expert assistance and guidance Brad S. Karp they need to secure the quality education they deserve. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton Daniel Slifkin Thank you to our generous Sponsors, who have donated & Garrison LLP Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP an astounding $2 million to support our work in the com- Eugene A. Ludwig Jonathan K. Youngwood ing year! Gratitude also goes to my Co-Chairs for working Promontory Financial Group, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP so hard towards this evening’s success. Congratulations to an IBM Company our award recipients, Colm Kelleher and Julian Centeno; we are thrilled to honor you both this evening. Kevin H. Marino Special recognition and enormous thanks to AFC’s Marino, Tortorella & Boyle, P.C. amazing staff who never stop fighting for NYC’s underserved students. Kudos as well to our Executive Director, Kim Sweet, who continues to lead AFC so brilliantly. Finally, I am so appreciative of each of AFC’s pro bono partners, our Flagship firms, and my colleagues on the Board and Junior Board of AFC for their dedication and service. Thank you, everyone, for supporting our work. Enjoy!

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VALEDICTORIAN JUNIOR Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP King & Spalding LLP Greenberg Traurig, LLP Clifford Chance US LLP KPMG LLP Morgan Stanley DLA Piper LLP The Morrison & Foerster Foundation Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Shearman & Sterling LLP Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP HONOR ROLL

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP SOPHOMORE The Ludwig Family Foundation PwC Anji & Mohit Assomull NBCUniversal Sidley Austin LLP Anna & Dean Backer Shelley O’Connor Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP William D. Briendel Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP Conduent Franck Petitgas Cornerstone Research Betsey & Ted Pick GRADUATE Covington & Burling LLP Staci Pollack & Matt Berke Dechert LLP QuisLex, Inc. Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP Jackie Donnelly & David Russell Reed Smith LLP Ella & Colm Kelleher DTI | Epiq Corinne & Rob Rooney Marino, Tortorella & Boyle, P.C. Mark Eichorn Samantha & Andy Saperstein O’Melveny & Myers LLP Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP Scopia Capital Management LP Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Goodwin Procter LLP Steptoe & Johnson LLP Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Lauren & Eric Grossman Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Jenner & Block LLP Thomson Reuters Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP Jones Day Venable LLP Cecilia & Sam Kellie-Smith White & Case LLP Lakshmi & Gokul Laroia Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP SENIOR Leader & Berkon LLP Thomas Wipf & Family Allen & Overy LLP Lodge Hill Capital, LLC Clare Woodman & Colin Potter Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP Christy & John Mack Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Integreon Latham & Watkins LLP FRESHMAN Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes Axiom The Mintz Group Linklaters LLP Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C. Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP Susan E. Brune & Chip Loewenson Virginia Moseley & Thomas Nides Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Lisa & Jon Pruzan Promontory Financial Group, an IBM Company Elevate Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP Proskauer Rose LLP Kirkland & Ellis LLP Skyer & Associates, LLP Ropes & Gray LLP Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz as of May 12, 2017

4 ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK SPRING BENEFIT 2017 5 PRESENTER THE JILL CHAIFETZ AWARD

ene Ludwig is a business leader and expert on olm Kelleher is President of Morgan Stanley, banking regulation, risk management, and fiscal overseeing both the Institutional Securities Gpolicy who founded Promontory Financial Cbusiness and Wealth Management. Prior to his Group in 2001. current role, he served as President of Morgan Stanley As a former federal regulator and banker, Mr. Ludwig is Institutional Securities and Chief Executive Officer of thoroughly attuned to the issues involved in revamping the Morgan Stanley International. Between October 2007 regulatory framework to withstand future shocks. Under and December 2009, Mr. Kelleher was Chief Financial his leadership, Promontory has become synonymous with Officer and Co-Head of Corporate Strategy, helping the excellence in compliance and risk management, and is Eugene A. Ludwig firm’s capital and liquidity during a period of great market Colm Kelleher renowned for its ability to help financial companies resolve Founder and CEO, dislocation. During his more than 25 years with Morgan President, Morgan Stanley Promontory Financial their most pressing challenges. Promontory was acquired by Group, an IBM Company Stanley, Mr. Kelleher has worked in the United States, IBM in 2016, combining Promontory’s domain expertise Europe and Asia Pacific and has extensive capital markets with IBM’s advanced technology. and securities markets experience. Before founding Promontory, Mr. Ludwig was vice Mr. Kelleher serves on the Chairman’s Council of chairman and senior control officer of Bankers Trust New Student Sponsor Partners, which has provided scholarships York Corp. He was instrumental in steering the firm and mentoring to hundreds of low-income New York City through its landmark merger with Deutsche Bank. students striving to secure a quality

As U.S. comptroller of the currency from 1993 to 1998, education. Additionally, Mr. Kelleher “THERE MIGHT NOT BE ANY Gene served as the Clinton administration’s point person led Morgan Stanley’s partnership with GREATER ADVANTAGE IN LIFE on the policy response to the credit crunch of the early The Great Ormond Street Hospital WE CAN GIVE A CHILD THAN A 1990s. Under his purview, lending to low and moderate for Children in London, to build The QUALITY EDUCATION. I AM SO HONORED TO BE RECOGNIZED income Americans increased tenfold, as did national bank Morgan Stanley Clinical Building, a BY AFC AND TO SUPPORT THEIR investments in community development corporations. state-of-the-art medical facility (2012), FIGHT TO ENSURE THAT EVERY Before becoming comptroller, Mr. Ludwig was a partner and The Morgan Stanley House, to CHILD HAS ACCESS TO THAT in the law firm of Covington & Burling, specializing in provide accommodations for the parents QUALITY EDUCATION AND THE PROMISE OF A BRIGHT FUTURE.” banking law. of hospitalized children (2015). Mr. Ludwig was raised in York, Pennsylvania. He Colm Kelleher graduated with an graduated magna cum laude from Haverford College and M.A. degree in History from Oxford University where he is received a scholarship to Oxford University, where he earned an Honorary Fellow of Oriel College. He is also a Fellow of a Master of Arts degree as a Keasbey Fellow. He holds a Juris the Institute of Chartered Accountants, serves on the Board Doctor from Yale University, where he was editor of the Yale of Americans for Oxford, and is a member of Oxford Vice- Law Journal and chairman of Yale Legislative Services. Chancellor’s Circle, TheCity UK Advisory Council and the Mr. Ludwig was the 2014 recipient of Advocates for British Museum Advisory Board. Mr. Kelleher is an Irish Children’s Jill Chaifetz Award. citizen, and with his wife, Ella, has three grown children and resides in New York.

6 ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK SPRING BENEFIT 2017 7 PRESENTER THE EDUCATION CHAMPION AWARD

ynthia McFadden is the senior legal and ulian is a high school junior on the autism spectrum. investigative correspondent for NBC News. His parents contacted AFC when Julian was 9 years CHer reporting appears across all platforms of Jold because the New York City Department of NBC News and MSNBC, including NBC Nightly News Education (DOE) had placed him in a school where he with Lester Holt, TODAY, Meet the Press, Dateline, and was failing to make progress academically. When his case NBCNews.com. came to us, Julian was incorrectly labeled as speech and Since joining NBC News in 2014, Ms. McFadden has language impaired with a borderline IQ, although private covered a range of stories across the United States and testing indicated that he was functioning at a much higher around the globe, scoring exclusive interviews with Amal Cynthia McFadden level. The special education program he was in was meeting Julian L. Centeno Clooney and the hacker known as Guccifer. Senior Legal and neither his needs nor the mandates of his Individualized High School Student & Investigative Correspondent, AFC Client Ms. McFadden’s reporting has also helped lead to the NBC News Education Program. His parents were concerned that release of the president of the Maldives from political Julian, who was in the third grade, was being given first- imprisonment and to the commutation of Chelsea grade course work, while at the same time being pressured Manning’s sentence by President Obama. Most recently, to take standardized tests on material he had never been Ms. McFadden and the NBC News Investigative Unit taught. Moreover, the environment was chaotic and have broken dozens of national security stories relating to stressful, making it nearly impossible for him to learn. terrorism, Yemen, and Russian involvement in the 2016 AFC successfully argued for the DOE to fund Julian’s U.S. Presidential election. matriculation at Learning Spring, a private elementary Prior to joining NBC News, Ms. McFadden spent school program with specialization in meeting the needs of twenty years at ABC News as a highly respected anchor and students on the autism spectrum. At correspondent known for her diverse portfolio of powerful Learning Spring, Julian began to show “I DON’T KNOW WHAT MY investigations. For ten years, she served as a correspondent real progress; the program was more PARENTS AND I WOULD HAVE for the network’s late-night news broadcast, Nightline. academically challenging, and he was DONE WITHOUT AFC’S HELP.” Her distinguished work has won many of broadcasting’s making connections with his classmates most coveted prizes, including Emmy, Peabody, duPont, and teachers. Two years later, AFC secured the cost of Sigma Delta Chi, and Foreign Press awards. Julian’s tuition to attend Gersh Academy, a private school A native of Maine, Ms. McFadden graduated Phi Beta for students on the autism spectrum, where he attended Kappa and summa cum laude from Bowdoin College, middle and high school. During his sophomore year, and received her law degree from Columbia University. AFC and Julian’s parents advocated for him to transition to Gersh’s more challenging I Am I Can Program, where he has successfully completed all but one of his Regents exams. Julian expects to graduate next year with a Regents diploma and hopes to pursue his many interests..

8 ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK SPRING BENEFIT 2017 9 LEADERSHIP CIRCLE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Advocates for Children of New York Advocates for Children of New York thanks thanks our leadership donors for their multi-year commitment the following supporters for their generous contributions that to support and sustain our work. have made this evening possible.

VISIONARIES CIRCLE BENEFACTORS Lauren and Eric Grossman Ken Berk Sara Hazelwood and Raul Yanes James Lousararian Ellen and Jonathan Polkes Merchant Factors Staci Pollack and Matt Berke Robert Reuben

CHAMPIONS CIRCLE PATRONS Anna and Dean Backer Travis R. Chapin William Briendel Joseph C. Coates III Susan Brune and Chip Loewenson Donald N. Cohen Dori and Brian Friedman Donald S. Davidson Kimberley Harris and Matthew Miller Brandon Dunn Yuliya Kuklina and Steven Reich Jason M. Fedo Maura K. Monaghan Harold E. Ford, Jr. Tracy L. Gerber Brad D. Kaufman ADVOCATES CIRCLE Elizabeth E. Mourn Renay and Paul Becker Mark L. Parmelee Frances Bivens and Ken Karas Stacy Pollack Laura Chamberlain and Mark Stein George D. Sullivan Robin French Daniel J. Tyukody Gillian Stern Terry R. Weiss Michael Mark Welner

ALLIES CIRCLE Lauren Hammer Breslow and Noah Breslow Kristine Kunesh-Part and Howard Part Jamie Levitt Jane Stern Elizabeth and Brian Weinstein

10 ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK SPRING BENEFIT 2017 11 ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK PROTECTING EVERY CHILD'S RIGHT TO LEARN

FOR OVER FOUR DECADES ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK HAS MADE COUNTLESS FUTURES BRIGHTER Advocates for By Solving Problems for Parents in Need: Any parent of a New York City public school student Children knows how difficult it can be to navigate a school system at a that has 1.1 million children. Our Jill Chaifetz Education Glance Helpline is a crucial resource for New York families having problems with special education, transportation, school suspensions, transfers, and more. Our experienced lawyers and advocates work with parents to get their children the educational support they need in school.

By Sharing Our Unique Expertise in Education Advocacy:

We know that one of the best ways to reach the most isolated students is to ABOVE PHOTO COURTESY OF ince 1971, AFC has been speaking out for the collaborate with other organizations that JOCELYN LEE children and youth who are at greatest risk for serve them. AFC is currently partnering Sfailure or discrimination in school because of their with twenty organizations funded by poverty, race, disability, immigrant or English Language the Robin Hood Foundation in areas Learner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, like child welfare, juvenile justice, and homelessness, or involvement in the foster care or juvenile domestic violence. In addition, AFC’s justice systems. No other city-wide organization is like highly skilled staff can be found in foster AFC: working in the trenches to provide these vulnerable care agencies and community-based students and their families with urgently needed guidance organizations across the five boroughs, and advocacy, while at the same time, pressing for systemic sharing their expertise in educational reforms that benefit all students, even those who are most advocacy, providing legal representation challenging to educate. Our efforts on the individual and to families, and helping these partners build their capacity to OMAR, AGE 18 policy levels inform and strengthen each other, further advocate for the educational needs of the children they serve. increasing our effectiveness for the communities we serve.

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Advocates By Understanding and Addressing the Education-Related for Challenges Confronting the City’s Most Vulnerable Children: Children at a Glance AFC proudly serves on the frontlines of the fight to champion the education-related rights of children and youth who are most likely to experience failure or discrimination in school because of factors beyond their control.

CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES AFC’s multi-pronged approach is a model for education advocacy throughout the city and state. First, we provide one-on-one legal representation and advocacy to help low- income families of children with disabilities get the educational services and support they IMMIGRANT STUDENTS & ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS RECIPIENT OF THE need. Second, we offer free 2016 EDUCATION AFC’s bilingual project staff advocates on behalf of CHAMPION AWARD, workshops throughout the city YSHAMAR GESTINE, individual parents and their children, trains parents RECORDING AN to bring training, information, INTERVIEW WITH and community-based organizations serving immigrant HODA KOTB, and direct assistance on the CO-ANCHOR OF education system to parents families on education-related rights, monitors access to NBC NEWS’ TODAY. and the professionals who work interpreters and translated materials in the city’s schools, with them. Third, we address and collaborates with other groups to support communities SKYLER, AGE 13 systemic problems with the education of students with seeking to improve outcomes for immigrants and English disabilities through our policy work and when necessary, Language Learners. federal litigation. And finally, we coordinate and lead a collaborative effort called the ARISE Coalition, which EARLY CHILDHOOD brings together more than sixty different organizations AFC’s Early Childhood Education Project provides indi- and individuals to press for policy change to benefit vidual case assistance, community education, and policy children with disabilities in the New York City schools. advocacy to improve access to early childhood education for low-income children, ages 0–5, so that children can enter kindergarten prepared to succeed.

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Advocates CHILDREN IN THE CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM BOARD OF DIRECTORS for AFC’s Project Achieve advocates for the educational needs Children of children in or at risk of placement in foster care while Eric F. Grossman Caroline J. Heller at a building capacity in the agencies that serve them. Project President Greenberg Traurig, LLP Glance Morgan Stanley staff operates satellite offices in child welfare agencies, Jeffrey E. LaGueux providing on-site assistance and training to caseworkers, Jamie A. Levitt Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP birth parents, and foster parents so that they can address the Vice President education-related issues affecting their children. Morrison & Foerster LLP Maura K. Monaghan Project staff also conducts policy advocacy on Debevoise & Plimpton LLP the city and state levels to improve educational Harriet Chan King Secretary Jon H. Oram outcomes for students in foster care. Proskauer Rose LLP Paul D. Becker STUDENTS FACING DISCIPLINARY Treasurer Jonathan D. Polkes ISSUES & COURT-INVOLVED YOUTH Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP AFC’s School Justice Project (SJP) provides Steven F. Reich case advocacy and legal representation to Matt Berke address the educational needs of youth facing Morgan Stanley school suspension or court involvement. Raul F. Yanes Through relationships built with social services Jessica A. Davis Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP agencies, community-based organizations, Lodge Hill Capital, LLC and community courts, project staff are able to Robin L. French Kim Sweet reach the students who often fall through the Executive Director VALERIE, AGE 12 cracks. The project also provides trainings and technical Brian Friedman assistance to parents, young people, and the professionals Goldman Sachs Matthew Lenaghan who work with them. Finally, project staff advocate for Deputy Director systemic reform with respect to school discipline and school Kimberley D. Harris climate, as well as the education of court-involved youth. NBCUniversal

STUDENTS IN TEMPORARY HOUSING AFC operates the New York State Technical and Education Assistance Center for Homeless Students (NYS-TEACHS), which focuses on building the capacity of school districts throughout the state to improve educational opportunities for homeless children and youth.

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Advocates for Children of New York recognizes our Advocates for Children Flagship Firms for their extraordinary level of commitment to of New York providing pro bono services to our clients.

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Together we can open doors and help build bright futures.

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We are pleased to participate in AFC’s Spring Benefit and support its vital mission. On behalf of PwC, Dan Ryan, PwC’s Banking and Capital Markets Leader, extends our congratulations to all of those being honored tonight with a very extra and special recognition to our good friend Colm Kelleher, President, Morgan Stanley.

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or 45 years, Advocates for Children of New York has worked to ensure a high-quality education for New York students who face barriers to Facademic success, focusing on students from low-income backgrounds. AFC achieves this through four integrated strategies: free advice and legal representation for families of students; free trainings and workshops for parents, communities, and educators and other professionals, to equip them to advocate on behalf of students; policy advocacy to effect change in the education system and improve education outcomes; and impact litigation to protect the right to quality education and to compel needed education reform.

78 ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK n behalf of everyone at Advocates for Children of ONew York and the countless children who have been able to receive a quality education as a result of the generosity of our donors and funders, we extend a heartfelt thank you. We are grateful to each one of you for supporting AFC as we protect every child’s right to learn.

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