The 2011 Safe Haven Awards celebrate our shared work to bring LGBT and HIV-positive immigrants and their families together — at home.
For one incredible evening, the entire Immigration Equality family comes together — our pro bono community, business coalition partners, and loyal supporters like you. Please join us.
Host Committee
Host Committee members ensure the success of the Safe Haven Awards by sponsoring at the Passport level or higher and reaching out to their friends, family, and coworkers to join them for a fabulous evening!
To join the host committee, Please join us.visit the donate page.
Thank you to all of our wonderful supporters who enable this vital work on behalf of LGBT and HIV+ immigrants, asylum seekers, and loving families.
Co-chairs
Joseph Loy
Heidi Schmid
$15,000 Safe Haven Challenge Grant
Joseph Loy, Heidi Schmid, and Immigration Equality's Staff & Board
Champion / $20,000
R. Martin Chavez & Adam Norbury
Raymond Fisher* & Juan Carlos Polomino
Robert McLain & Alberto Blanquel
Erik & Ranesh* Ramanathan
Andrew Sullivan* & Aaron Tone
Advocate / $5,000
Mark Bailey & Jacob Press
Navin Manglani* & Navin Dargani
Barry Skovgaard & Marc Wolinsky
Citizen / $2,652
David Bardeen*
John Bativoglio
David Bryan
Joe Fitzgerald & Joe Landau*
David Gruenstein
Mark Thompson & Vishnu Gaunder
Mariya & Michael Treisman
Deborah Renner
Susan J. Zachman*
Resident / $1,080
Jeff Arnstein & Michael Field
Robert Bell
Adam Berger & Steve Frank
Nicholas Constantakis
L. Nick Davis
Mary Beth Henson* & Danielle Henripin
Randy L. Feuerstein & Laura Goldstein
Kevin Kelly
Steven Klapisch
Heymi Kuriel
Andrew Levander
Joseph Loy & Michael Kavey
Andrew Nagel
G. Daniel O'Donnell
Steven Planchard
Heidi Schmid
Uriel Scott
Gordon Stewart* & Renato Lustosa
Rachel B. Tiven* & Sally Gottesman
Ryan Tooley & Sebastien Fossel
Jack S. Vitayanon
Barton Winokur
Passport / $589
Anonymous
Barrak Alzaid & Ilene Winokur
Ronald Arnero
Ronald Buckmire* & Dean Elzinga
Randall Chamberlain
Albert R. Chen
Mark Chesson
Win Chesson
Robert Cohen
Bridget A. Crawford
Joseph & Kristina Di Carlo
William Dodds
David Duncan & Alessandro Motter
Lee Flaster
Maria & Aaron* Frankel
Clément Gaujal & Patrick Nolan
Dake Gonzalez & Jimmy Stewart
Dennis H. Hranitzky
Yusyin Hsin
Hua & Murga LLP
Dr. Carlos Huerta
Karen & Neil Kavey
Dr. Paul Krieger
Prerna Lal*
Barry & Sara Landau
Katherine Lorenz
William Lyons
Tanisha Massie
John O'Donnell
John Pettengill & Will Trice
Charles Poret
Jeffery Povero
Bartleby St. Clair & Juan Rajlin
Benjamin Rosenberg
Navah Steiner
Manuel Velez
Andrew Weisberg
* denotes member of the Board of Directors
The Safe Haven Awards are jointly sponsored by Immigration Equality and Immigration Equality Action Fund. Law firm and corporate sponsorships support Immigration Equality, a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization, to which all gifts are tax-deductible. In order to fully capitalize the Action Fund and achieve our policy goals in Washington, all individual and general ticket donations go to the Action Fund. The Action Fund is a 501(c)(4) organization and gifts to it are not tax-deductible.