Celebration Breakfast
Nancy Solomon: Fighting for the Future
There was never a dull moment during Wednesday night dinners at the Solomon household in 1994. That’s when Nancy Solomon, the recipient of our Eleanor Roosevelt Award at this year’s upcoming Celebration Breakfast, was enrolled in CCC’s Community Leader …
Lauren Duca: An Advocate Online and Off
Lauren Duca, the recipient of our 2017 Vanguard Award, has no shortage of topics to cover in her weekly Teen Vogue column, Thigh-High Politics. She often has the opposite problem: With so much confusing and complicated news coming out of Washington, it …
2017 Celebration Breakfast
October 26, 2017 · 7:30 – 9:15 AM 583 Park Avenue As an organization that advocates for data-driven solutions to some of society’s most intractable challenges, we are ever-more alarmed at the prospect of what many are now calling a “post-fact world.” T …
Inspired by CCC’s 2016 Breakfast: A Message from Jennifer March
If you were among the 600+ people who joined us on Wednesday, October 26th for our annual Celebration Breakfast, thank you so much for making the early morning trip to the event. If you weren’t able to attend, please know that you were greatly missed – …
Breakfast Vanguard Award: Julia Turner, Editor-in-Chief, Slate Magazine
“I want to publish ambitious pieces that change the way people think and talk about the world.” Julia Turner is the first woman to be Editor-in-Chief of Slate Magazine, having previously served as deputy editor and culture editor. Slate, one of the fir …
CCC Breakfast Keynote: Dan-el Padilla Peralta, author of ‘Undocumented’
“I live, in part because of the conditioning of my childhood and adolescence, in this state of expectation that something really bad is about to come our way.” Dr. Dan-el Padilla Peralta, 31, is a classics scholar, immigration reform advocate an …