TREATMENT ACTION GROUP The Board of Trustees 2016 RESEARCH IN ACTION AWARDS and staff of amfAR, The Foundation Treatment Action Group’s (TAG’s) annual Research in Action Awards honor activists, scientists, philanthropists and creative artists who have made for AIDS Research extraordinary contributions in the fight against AIDS. Tonight’s awards ceremony is a fundraiser to support TAG’s programs and provides a forum for honoring heroes of the epidemic. salute the recipients of the HONOREES LEVI STRAUSS & CO. for advancing human rights and the fight 2016 TAG Research in Action Awards against HIV/AIDS ROSIE PEREZ actor/activist MARGARET RUSSELL award-winning design journalist/editor, Levi Strauss & Co. cultural leader and accomplished advocate for HIV prevention and care BARBARA HUGHES longtime AIDS activist and dedicated Rosie Perez President of TAG’s Board since 1996 HOSTS Margaret Russell JENNA WOLFE lifestyle and fitness expert BRUCE VILANCH comedy writer, songwriter, actor and Emmy ® Barbara Hughes Award winner THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2016 6PM Cocktails and Hors d’Oeuvres 7PM Awards Presentation SLATE www.amfar.org 54 West 21st Street New York City TAG ad 102716.indd 1 10/27/16 3:17 PM TAG 2016 LIMITED ART EDITION RIAA 2016 CO-CHAIRS SCOTT CAMPBELL Executive Director, Elton John AIDS Foundation DICK DADEY Executive Director, Citizens Union JOY TOMCHIN Founder of Public Square Films, Executive Producer of How to Survive a Plague and the upcoming documentary Sylvia and Marsha RIAA 2016 HONORARY CHAIRS 2014 RIAA honoree ALAN CUMMING and GRANT SHAFFER 2009 RIAA honoree DAVID HYDE PIERCE and BRIAN HARGROVE ROSALIND FOX SOLOMON Animal Landscape, 1979 Archival pigment print | 15 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches | 8-ply mat + granite welded metal frame + uv plexi 23 1/2 x 23 inches | Edition of 15 + 3 AP's | ©Rosalind Fox Solomon, www.rosalindsolomon.com RIAA 2016 COMMITTEE Courtesy of Bruce Silverstein Gallery Joy Episalla, Chair for Projects Plus, Inc. Jim Aquino Pat DeSibio Celebrated for her portraits and for her connection to the human suffering, Frank Bua Maria Ducheine ritual, survival, and struggle, her work has been shown in nearly 30 solo Dick Dadey Cody Jones exhibitions and 100 group exhibitions, and is in the collections of over 50 Kevin Goetz Paul Reitz museums worldwide. Rosalind Fox Solomon’s work was included in Art Mark Harrington AIDS America, a group exhibition organized by the Tacoma Art Museum in Barbara Hughes for BluePrintNYC Joseph McConnell Daniel de Oliveira partnership with The Bronx Museum of the Arts, from July 13 to October Robert Monteleone Joe Ferreira 23, 2016. Ms. Solomon received a Lucie Honoree Award for Outstanding Scott Morgan D.J. Hanson Achievement in Portraiture at Carnegie Hall on October 23, 2016. Jason Osher Aaron Mann David I. Sigal John Sideris IN MEMORIAM IN MEMORIAM MARGIE GARBER- STEINBERG April 7, 1949 – April 14, 2016 This page is dedicated to Margie Garber-Steinberg, mother of longtime board member Jason Osher. Margie was a steadfast TAG supporter for well over a dozen years and always attended the Research in Rick Schubel, Jason Osher, Ella Bove, Action Awards. She not Margie Garber-Steinberg, Mort Steinberg only fought against the HIV/AIDS pandemic through her support and philanthropy, but also fought her own battle with cancer for ten years, undergoing two stem cell transplants and countless chemotherapies and drug combinations. She was a much adored wife, mother, grandmother, and friend. She was also a strong warrior, and showed us all how to continue to fight, despite the obstacles. Her love for TAG and its leaders, her humor, and her voice to end HIV/AIDS will be sorely missed. LYDIA M. ASHCROFT September 13, 1917 – October 24, 2016 The TAG Board and Staff TONY FEHER celebrate the life of Lydia Ashcroft and her steadfast 1956–2016 support in the fight to end TAG remembers with gratitude the life and work of the incomparable Tony AIDS. Feher. An artist whose work spanned more than thirty years, Tony Feher defined a unique place in contemporary art by using the most humble and simple materials of everyday objects to create elegant and poetic sculptures and installations. An AIDS activist and HIV +, Tony was a longtime supporter of TAG, and generously donated the Limited Art Edition for the 2008 Research in Action Awards. A memorial exhibition of Feher’s most recent work opens at Barbara Hughes and Lydia M. Ashcroft Sikkema Jenkins & Co., in NYC, on November 17 through December 23, 2016. PAST HONOREES HOSTS 2015 2008 2000 JENNA WOLFE Matt Bomer Ambassador Mark Dybul Lynda M. Dee, Esq. Simon Halls Florent Morellet Dr. Anthony S. Fauci Jenna Wolfe is a certified personal trainer, health Chelsea Clinton Sally Morrison Tom Viola, BC/EFA and wellness expert, motivational speaker and (most Jim Eigo Doris Roberts 1999 challenging of all), mom to two little girls, Harper and Dr. Jack Whitescarver Spencer Cox Quinn. Most recently, she was the first-ever lifestyle and 2007 2014 Irene Diamond fitness correspondent on NBC’s “Today” show. She just Dr. Jim Yong Kim Dr. Mary Travis Bassett Dr. Harold Varmus NYC Council Speaker Christine wrote her first book, “Thinner in 30,” outlining a 30-day Alan Cumming Quinn 1998 diet and fitness plan in her charismatic voice. Prior to Dr. Eric Goosby David Mixner Dr. Mathilde Krim joining NBC News in 2007, the self-proclaimed daredevil Fred Hersch Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr Gregorio Millett 2006 and thrill seeker spent 12 years as a sportscaster. Christopher Tepper + Paul Dr. Judith Auerbach 1997 When she’s not running (and squatting and lunging and Kelterborn Dr. Donna Futterman Dr. David Ho bear-crawling) a million miles an hour in one direction, she’s usually (and Terrence McNally Michael Palm 2013 happily) doing it in another. Jenna lives in New York City with her partner, Anderson Cooper 2005 Stephanie Gosk. Olympia Dukakis NY State Senator Thomas K. TAG BOARD OF DIRECTORS Dr. Joseph Sonnabend Duane Barbara Hughes, President Dr. Bruce R. Shackman Laura Morrison, Secretary/ 2012 John Waters Treasurer Dr. Francoise Barré-Sinoussi Jim Aquino Jon Cohen 2004 Frank Bua BRUCE VILANCH Dr. Paul Farmer Eve Ensler Dick Dadey Judith Light Dr. Gerald Friedland Bruce Vilanch is famous for his research in action, but it’s Joy Episalla JP Morgan Chase Private Bank another thing altogether. Moving on. A six-time Emmy 2011 Kevin Goetz Award winner, he has written 23 Oscar® telecasts, sung, Dr. Polly Harrison 2003 Dr. Roy M. Gulick John Benjamin Hickey Martin Delaney, Project Inform Robert W. Lennon danced, and ironed on Broadway and the road as Edna Dr. Robert F. Siliciano Bill T. Jones Richard Lynn Turnblad in Hairspray and, for six years was a Hollywood Dr. William E. Paul Alby P. Maccarone, Jr. Square, just to the left of Whoopi, if that’s possible. The 2010 Jane Silver Robert Monteleone Scott P. Campbell Weinstein brothers made a documentary about him, Jason Osher Dr. Steven G. Deeks 2002 called Get Bruce, which makes for a fine Netflix evening David I. Sigal Dr. Mehmet Oz Gene Falk Monte Steinman with the right oneophilic lubrication. The sequel, Had James Wentzy Laurie Garrett Bruce, will have a much larger cast. He does a lot of Dr. John Moore 2009 benefits, as his accountant has pointed out to him in a less than cheery tone. Peter Staley Simon Doonan So let’s find a cure already. Thanks. Dr. Roy (Trip) Gulick 2001 Dr. Michel Kazatchkine Dr. Art Ammann David Hyde Pierce Michael Cunningham Gregg Gonsalves HONOREE PRESENTED BY LEVI STRAUSS & CO. The Levi Strauss Foundation is the corporate foundation of Levi Strauss & Co., one of the world’s largest brand- name apparel companies and a global leader in jeanswear. In 1853, Levi Strauss opened a wholesale dry goods business in San Francisco. Seeing a need for work pants that could hold up under rough conditions, he and Jacob Davis, a tailor, created the world’s first jean in 1873. The Company has applied this same spirit of innovation to how we engage in communities around the globe. Receiving the Award KARYN KAPLAN for Levi Strauss & Co, For over 60 years the Levi Strauss Foundation Daniel Lee, Executive Director, has advanced the human rights and well-being of Karyn Kaplan, Executive Director of Asia Catalyst, has worked on health Levi Strauss Foundation. underserved people touched by our business in and human rights issues in Asia since 1988. She spent 20 years working communities around the globe. Every day, we support progressive leaders with grassroots HIV activists in Thailand on access to treatment for highly and organizations working on the frontiers of change that are taking risks marginalized populations, namely people who use drugs, migrant sex workers, and innovating as they address the most pressing social issues of our time: and people in prison. As the co-founder of Thai AIDS Treatment Action Group, from HIV/AIDS and human rights, to improving the lives of apparel workers Karyn helped bring attention to the human rights of people who use drugs in our supply chain. and supported the founding of Thai Drug Users’ Network, which received a groundbreaking grant from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria for For the past 30+ years, Levi Strauss & Co and the Levi Strauss Foundation peer-led harm reduction services in Thailand. Karyn also worked at Gay Men’s have together maintained a sustained approach to the HIV/AIDS epidemic Health Crisis, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, that addresses both the health and social factors preventing a definitive and Treatment Action Group, where she helped mobilize a global movement response to end the epidemic.