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Toigo Gala - Defining Moments

NOVEMBER 20, 2024 | DOORS OPEN 5:30 PM, DINNER PROGRAM 7PM

SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER 

 2701 N SEPULVEDA BOULEVARD | LOS ANGELES

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Thank you for your partnership and support of Toigo!

Join us for an Evening with Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Emmy & Peabody Award-Winning Filmmaker, Literary Scholar & Journalist

New York Times Best-Selling Author

Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, and journalist Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is an acclaimed cultural critic and institution builder. Professor Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Among his dozens of books are the recent New York Times bestsellers Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow and The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song. He has also produced and hosted an array of documentary films. The Black Church (PBS) and Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches (HBO), which he executive produced, each received Emmy nominations. His latest history series for PBS is Making Black America: Through the Grapevine. Finding Your Roots, Gates’s groundbreaking genealogy and genetics series, is now in its tenth season on PBS. Professor Gates has received countless awards and honors, including a George Polk Award for his social commentary in The New York Times, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Chicago Tribune Literary Award for lifetime achievement, and the prestigious Gold Medal from the National Institute of Social Sciences, among many others. His filmmaking has received Emmy, Peabody, and NAACP Image Awards, as well as an Alfred I. duPont Columbia University Award. Recently, he the coveted Spingarn Medal from the NAACP. Professor Gates serves on the boards of many notable institutions, including: the New York Public Library, the Aspen Institute, the Brookings Institution, and is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations.

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Wednesday, November 20
Doors - 11:00 AM | Program - 12:00 PM

*Luxe Sunset Boulevard Hotel
11461 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90049
*Note: The location for this event has changed

Future Proof: Finance
An Exchange Focused at the Intersection of Toigo's Mission & the Finance Industry

Gathering just two weeks post-election, Toigo’s “Future Proof” exchange is a timely forum for exploring key shifts and ways forward in a range of areas core to Toigo’s mission, its work and community.
Future Proof: Finance will open with a panel discussion examining challenges facing finance leaders as they navigate shifting tides related to commitments to sustainability, equity and change. We’ll then turn to you—and your tablemates—for a rich and robust discussion on pressing themes raised by the panel, and more.
Join Toigo for this engaging, timely dialogue. Seating is limited; we encourage you to reserve your place and join the conversation!

Our 35th Anniversary LA Gala Sponsors

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A special thanks to our
35th Anniversary TITANIUM Sponsor