Event Program and Host Committee

The National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC), in conjunction Members of Congress, is sponsoring
An Evening Without Politics: A Benefit Reception
on September 25th during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Legislative Conference. The event will raise awareness about the disproportionate impact of HIV in African American communities nationwide, and Washington, D.C. in particular, as well as support AIDS education initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Guests include Members of Congress, House Committee chairs, senior executives from corporations, recognized high-ranking policy makers in the global health industry and other senior officials from the Obama Administration.

Over 30 Members of Congress are participating in the event’s prestigious
Congress Host Committee

Sen. Harry Reid (NV)

Nancy Pelosi (CA)
Speaker

Rep. James Clyburn (SC)

 

Sen. Barbara Boxer (CA)

Sen. Arlen Specter (PA)

Sen. Roland W. Burris (IL)

Sen. Richard Durbin (IL)
Sen. John McCain (AZ)

Sen. John Kerry (MA)
Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski (MD)

Sen. Jim Webb (VA )

     

 

Rep. Barbara Lee, Chairwoman

 

Rep. Bennie Thompson, Chairman

Rep. John Conyers, Jr., Chairman

Rep. Charles B. Rangel, Chairman

Rep. Edolphus Towns, Chairman


Mike Honda, Chairman

   

Rep. Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.

Rep. G.K. Butterfield

Rep. Andre Carson

Rep. Donna M. Christensen

Rep. Yvette Clarke

Rep. William Lacy Clay, Jr.

Rep. Danny K. Davis

Rep. Donna Edwards

Rep. Keith Ellison

Rep. Chaka Fattah

Rep. Marcia L. Fudge

Rep. Alcee L. Hastings

Rep. Jessie Jackson, Jr.

Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson

Rep. Hank Johnson

Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee

Rep. John Lewis

Rep. Kendrick B. Meek

Rep. Gregory W. Meeks

Rep. Gwendolynne Moore

Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton

Rep. Laura Richardson

Rep. Bobby L. Rush

Rep. José E. Serrano

Rep. Maxine Waters

Rep. Diane E. Watson

Rep. Melvin L. Watt

   


Honorary C0-Chairs

Elise Scott
CBCF

Adrian Fenty, Mayor
Washington, D.C.

Sheryl Lee Ralph Actress

NMAC Spokesperson

Nancy Wilson
Jazz Vocalist


Sidney Ribeau
Howard University

Julianne Malveaux
Bennett College

Hazel O’Leary
Fisk University

Lorenzo Morris
Howard University

Charles Ogletree

Harvard Law School

Wayne Riley
Meharry Medical School

Ruth Simmons

Brown University

Phyllis Holly-Ward
Success Links, Inc.


Martin Luther King, III

Realizing the Dream

Marian Wright Edelman Children’s Defense Fund

Rev. Al Sharpton
National Action Network

Julian Bond
NAACP


Beny Primm

Addiction Research Treatment Ctr.



Colin L. Powell, General
U.S. Army (Ret.)


Alexis Herman

New Ventures, LLC


Richard D. Parsons

Citibank

Jim Brown
Former NFL Amer-I-Can

Daniel Snyder
Washington Redskins

Diane Cleaver

CBC Spouses

Vera Davis
CBC Spouses

Una Clarke
Una Clarke Associates

Darian “Big Tigger” Morgan
Street Corner Foundation

Billy Martin
Howrey LLP

Kenneth Robinson
Robinson Law Firm


Louis Stokes

Squire, Sanders &, Dempsey

Fmr.  U.S. Congressman

Rev. Floyd H. Flake
Wilberforce University
Fm
r. President

Ronald Dellums, Mayor

City of Oakland, CA
Fmr. U.S. Congressman

Albert Wynn
Dickstein Shapiro, LLP

Fmr. U.S. Congressman


Sheila Johnson

Co-Founder, Black Entertainment Television

Debra L. Lee

CEO, Black Entertainment Television

Carolyn B. Britton
Fmr. President, National Medical Association

Cecil Murray
Fmr. Pastor, First
AME Los Angeles

Kenneth I. Chenault

American Express

Gwendolyn Louise Ifill

Political Journalist

Phyllis Hull

Roosevelt Dorin

Mayor, Englewood, CA

Honorees

Nancy Pelosi, Speaker
Maxine Waters (D-CA)
Barbara Lee (D-CA)
Donna Christensen
(D-VI)

Danny Davis (D-IL)

Charles Rangel (D-NY)
Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY)
India Clark, Howard University Peer Educator
National Minority AIDS Council Special Awards

Proceeds to benefit NMAC’s capacity building and technical assistance programs for minority community- and faith based organizations in Washington, D.C., and HIV/AIDS education initiatives at
Historically Black Colleges and Universities.