Marc & Cathy Lasry

Advocates for Children of New York Spring Benefit June 8, 2016 Advocates for Children of New York’s Spring Benefit Wednesday, June 8, 2016

6:00 pm Cocktail Reception 7:15 pm Presentations

hank you to the staff of Welcome Advocates for Children Hoda Kotb Co-Anchor, Today of New York, for T Remarks your unwavering dedication Kim Sweet Executive Director, Advocates for Children of New York to securing a quality public education for New York City’s Awards Presentation children and youth. Hoda Kotb THE JILL CHAIFETZ AWARD Marc Lasry —AFC’s Board of Directors Chairman, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Avenue Capital Group

AND Cathy Lasry Author and Philanthropist THE EDUCATION CHAMPION AWARD Yshamar Gestine June 2017 High School Graduate and AFC Client

Closing Remarks Eric F. Grossman Board President, Advocates for Children of New York THANK YOU FROM THE BOARD PRESIDENT SPRING BENEFIT LEADERSHIP

n behalf of the Board of Directors, welcome CO-CHAIRS to Advocates for Children of New York’s 2016 Spring Benefit. James J. Benjamin, Jr. Kevin H. Marino O Akin Gump Strauss Hauer Marino, Tortorella & Boyle, P.C. Since 1971, AFC has helped over half a million of & Feld LLP New York City’s most vulnerable children—the poor, the David Meister homeless, children in foster care, children with special needs, William D. Briendel Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher immigrant children, and children caught in the juvenile Greenberg Traurig, LLP & Flom LLP justice system—in their quest for a quality education. Bradley J. Butwin Susan L. Merrill With AFC on their side, these disadvantaged students Eric F. Grossman O’Melveny & Myers LLP Sidley Austin LLP have a genuine chance at academic success and a decreased President, Board of Directors, likelihood of eventually dropping out of school and Advocates for Children George S. Canellos Thomas R. Nides experiencing chronic unemployment or long-term court of New York Milbank, Tweed, Hadley Morgan Stanley involvement. Together with AFC’s donors and funders, we & McCloy LLP are able to overcome the barriers that stand between these Jonathan D. Polkes students and the quality education they deserve. Robert Gogel Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Integreon Thank you to our generous Sponsors, who have Thomas J. Reid donated an astounding $1.85 million to support this work Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in the coming year. Thanks as well to my Co-Chairs, TIAA-CREF whose leadership has made our 2016 Spring Benefit Dan Ryan another record breaker. Congratulations to our award Eric F. Grossman PwC recipients, Marc and Cathy Lasry and Yshamar Gestine. Morgan Stanley Stuart Sarnoff We feel privileged to honor you three this evening. Brad S. Karp O’Melveny & Myers LLP Each year, AFC’s staff outdoes itself, and 2016 is no Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton exception. Their commitment to NYC’s underserved & Garrison LLP Daniel Slifkin students is truly remarkable. Special recognition is also due Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP Kim Sweet, under whose leadership AFC continues to be Eugene A. Ludwig the gold standard in education advocacy in New York. I am Promontory Financial Group, LLC Jonathan K. Youngwood Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP also appreciative of each of AFC’s pro bono partners, our six Aaron R. Marcu pro bono Flagship Firms, and my colleagues on the Board Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and the Junior Board for all that you do to keep AFC strong. Thank you, everyone, for joining us tonight. I hope that you have a wonderful evening!

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VALEDICTORIAN JUNIOR Avenue Capital Group Clifford Chance US LLP Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP Greenberg Traurig, LLP King & Spalding LLP Morgan Stanley KPMG LLP The Morrison & Foerster Foundation

HONOR ROLL Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP SOPHOMORE Integreon Anna & Dean Backer Paul Hastings LLP The Ludwig Family Foundation C-III Capital Partners Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP O’Melveny & Myers LLP Cornerstone Research Reed Smith LLP PwC DLA Piper LLP Scopia Capital Management LP Sidley Austin LLP Epiq Shearman & Sterling LLP Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Goodwin Procter LLP Teneo Strategy Jones Day Venable LLP GRADUATE Kirkland & Ellis LLP White & Case Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP Leader & Berkon LLP Xerox Legal Business Services Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer NBCUniversal Marino, Tortorella & Boyle, P.C. Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP FRESHMAN Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Arnold & Porter LLP Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Axiom Thomas R. Nides & Virginia C. Moseley Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP William D. Briendel Pangea3 & Thomson Reuters Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP Covington & Burling LLP Robert Reuben SENIOR Elevate Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP Allen & Overy LLP Kaye Scholer LLP Skyer & Associates, LLP Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP Law Office of Elisa Hyman P.C. Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Lodge Hill Capital, LLC Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes Chip Loewenson & Susan E. Brune Linklaters LLP Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Proskauer Rose LLP Ropes & Gray LLP Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz as of May 26, 2016

4 ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK SPRING BENEFIT 2016 5 PRESENTER THE JILL CHAIFETZ AWARD

oda Kotb is the co-host of the fourth hour of arc Lasry is the Chairman, Chief Executive NBC News’ Tod ay alongside Kathie Lee Gifford. Officer and Co-Founder of Avenue Capital HSince joining NBC in 1998, Ms. Kotb has served MGroup, a global alternative investment manager as a correspondent for Dateline, where she has covered focused on distressed and undervalued debt and equity a wide variety of domestic, international, and human- opportunities in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Mr. Lasry, a interest stories and features, including Hurricane Katrina, pioneer in distressed investing, formed Avenue with his the war in Iraq, the conflict in the West Bank and Gaza, sister, Sonia Gardner, in 1995. At present, Avenue Capital the War on Terror in Afghanistan, and the 2012 Summer is one of the largest distressed debt investors globally, Olympics. She also served as host of the weekly syndicated Hoda Kotb managing assets of approximately $11.6 billion. Marc Lasry series Your Total Health from 2004 to 2008. Co-Anchor, Today Mr. Lasry is currently a member of the Council on Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and A New York Times bestselling author, Hoda Kotb has Foreign Relations and serves on the Board of Directors Co-Founder of Avenue written three books: Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad of the 92nd Street Y. Mr. Lasry was a member of the Capital Group Hair, Cancer and Kathie Lee; Ten Years Later: Six People Who Campaign Committee for UPKNYC, which supported Cathy Lasry Faced Adversity and Transformed Their Lives; and Where We the expansion of universal prekindergarten and after- Author and Philanthropist Belong, which was released in January 2016. Ms. Kotb is a school programs for middle-school students. He seven-year breast cancer survivor and is involved in several previously served as a member of the Board of Trustees initiatives to raise awareness about the disease. of The Mount Sinai Medical Center. Mr. Lasry is also a In 2015, Ms. Kotb was honored with a Gracie Award co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks. for Outstanding Host in News/Non-fiction and aWebby Cathy Lasry is the author of several young adult novels. Award for her Truly Brave music video about pediatric Previously, Ms. Lasry worked as a book editor. Ms. Lasry cancer. She received additional Gracie awards in 2008 and sits on the Boards of Trustees of The Roundabout Theater 2003, the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award Company and Only Make Believe, which brings in 2008, a Peabody Award in 2006 for her report The interactive theatre programs to children in hospitals and Education of Ms. Groves, and a 2002 Edward R. Murrow care facilities. She is also on the Advisory Board of New Award. Ms. Kotb was awarded Daytime Emmys in 2010, York Road Runners. 2011, and 2012, as part of Tod ay’s recognition as the best Marc and Cathy Lasry are both graduates of Clark morning news program. University where their support has made possible The Lasry Prior to joining NBC News, Ms. Kotb worked as an Center for Bioscience, The Cohen-Lasry House (which anchor and reporter at WWL-TV in New Orleans (1992- houses the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide 1998) and WINK-TV in Fort Myers, Florida (1989-1991). Studies at Clark University), and The Cathy Cohen Lasry Ms. Kotb graduated from Virginia Tech University with Visiting Professorship of Comparative Genocide Studies. a Bachelor of Arts in broadcast journalism. She resides in Mr. Lasry also received a J.D. from New York Law School. New York City. The Lasrys live in New York and have five adult children, one grandchild, and one on the way.

6 ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK SPRING BENEFIT 2016 7 THE EDUCATION CHAMPION AWARD LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

shamar Gestine is a junior at New Visions Advocates for Children of New York Charter High School for Advanced Math and thanks our leadership donors for their multi-year commitment YScience III. Yshamar came to NYC from Haiti to support and sustain our work. during 4th grade, unable to identify letters or read words in any language. His mother, Marie Joseph, asked repeatedly for help. Eventually, Yshamar was placed in a VISIONARIES CIRCLE special education class, where he made little progress but was promoted each year because he worked hard and Lauren and Eric Grossman Sara Hazelwood and Raul Yanes behaved well. Yshamar Gestine Ellen and Jonathan Polkes For 9th grade, Yshamar landed at New Visions knowing 2017 High School Graduate and AFC Client Staci Pollack and Matt Berke only a handful of letters. Yshamar’s special education teacher saw his potential and included him in her remedial CHAMPIONS CIRCLE reading class three days a week. Using the Wilson Reading Anna and Dean Backer System, Yshamar started making progress, but his teachers William Briendel recognized that he would need a lot more Wilson to make Susan Brune and Chip Loewenson up for lost time and earn a diploma. Unfortunately, rather Dori and Brian Friedman than providing him with the increased reading remediation Kimberley Harris and Matthew Miller he would require to catch up, the DOE directed Yshamar to a less challenging school that was not appropriate for his ADVOCATES CIRCLE needs and goals. Renay and Paul Becker Luckily, Yshamar and his mom were referred to AFC, Frances Bivens and Ken Karas where their lawyer built a strong case that he should Robin French remain at his school and receive the additional support Gillian Stern his teachers had recommended. As the result of AFC’s intervention, Yshamar was allowed to remain at his school, ALLIES CIRCLE double his Wilson instruction, and receive an iPad to Lauren Hammer Breslow and Noah Breslow facilitate independent reading and writing. AFC also won Jamie Levitt Jane Stern Yshamar one-on-one tutoring during the summer. Yshamar has never given up, and the results of his efforts have been amazing! He has passed three Regents exams and is on his way to a diploma with plans to attend college and become an accountant. AFC is proud to award our 2016 Education Champion Award to Yshamar Gestine.

8 ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK SPRING BENEFIT 2016 9 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 ABOVE PHOTO COURTESY OF ince 1971, AFC has been speaking out for the students is to collaborate with other JOCELYN LEE children and youth who are at greatest risk for failure organizations that serve them. AFC Sor discrimination in school because of their poverty, is currently partnering with twenty race, disability, immigrant or English Language Learner organizations funded by the Robin status, sexual orientation, gender identity, homelessness, or Hood Foundation in areas like child involvement in the foster care or juvenile justice systems. welfare, juvenile justice, and domestic No other city-wide organization is like AFC: working in violence. In addition, AFC’s highly the trenches to provide these vulnerable students and their skilled staff can be found in foster families with urgently needed guidance and advocacy, care agencies and community-based while at the same time, pressing for systemic reforms that organizations across the five boroughs, benefit all students, even those who are most challenging sharing their expertise in educational to educate. Our efforts on the individual and policy levels advocacy, providing legal representation to families, and inform and strengthen each other, further increasing our helping these partners build their capacity to advocate for the effectiveness for the communities we serve. educational needs of the children they 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 need. IMMIGRANT STUDENTS & ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS PAST RECIPIENTS OF Second, we offer free workshops THE EDUCATION AFC’s bilingual project staff advocates on behalf of CHAMPION AWARD throughout the city to bring STASH MCCARTHY (2010), individual parents and their children, trains parents KHIRY SMITH (2011), AND training, information, and direct ERIC DEGIAMO (2012) assistance on the education and community-based organizations serving immigrant system to parents and the families on education-related rights, monitors access to professionals who work with interpreters and translated materials in the city’s schools, them. Third, we address systemic and collaborates with other groups to support communities problems with the education seeking to improve outcomes for immigrants and English of students with disabilities Language Learners. through our policy work and when necessary, federal litigation. EARLY CHILDHOOD And finally, we coordinate and lead a collaborative effort AFC’s Early Childhood Education Project provides indi- called the ARISE Coalition, which brings together more vidual case assistance, community education, and policy than fifty different organizations and individuals to press advocacy to improve access to early childhood education for for policy change to benefit children with disabilities in the low-income children, ages 0–5, so that children can enter New York City schools. 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 Kimberley D. Harris at a building capacity in the agencies that serve them. Project President NBCUniversal Glance Morgan Stanley staff operates satellite offices in child welfare agencies, Caroline J. Heller providing on-site assistance and training to caseworkers, Jamie A. Levitt Greenberg Traurig, LLP birth parents, and foster parents so that they can address the Vice President education-related issues affecting their children. Morrison & Foerster LLP Jeffrey E. LaGueux Project staff also conducts policy advocacy on Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP the city and state levels to improve educational Harriet Chan King Secretary Maura K. Monaghan outcomes for students in foster care. Debevoise & Plimpton 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 case advocacy and legal representation to Steven F. Reich address the educational needs of youth facing Matt Berke Deutsche Bank AG school suspension or court involvement. Morgan Stanley 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 reach the students who often fall through the Adrienne Filipov cracks. The project also provides trainings and technical Warburg Pincus LLC Kim Sweet assistance to parents, young people, and the professionals Executive Director Robin L. French who work with them. Finally, project staff advocate for Matthew Lenaghan systemic reform with respect to school discipline and school Brian Friedman Deputy Director climate, as well as the education of court-involved youth. Goldman Sachs

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.

14 ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK SPRING BENEFIT 2016 15 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FLAGSHIP PRO BONO FIRMS

Advocates for Children of New York thanks Advocates for Children of New York recognizes our the following supporters for their generous contributions that Flagship Firms for their extraordinary level of commitment to have made this evening possible. providing pro bono services to our clients.

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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.

76 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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