60th Annual Whitney M. Young, Jr. Gala & Dinner – Greater Baltimore Urban League
April 28, 2017 – Hilton Baltimore Hotel
Pictured (LtoR) Kirby Fowler, Downtown Partnership of Baltimore president; and Vernon Simms, chief of staff to Congressman Elijah CummingsPictured (LtoR) Claudette Perry, National Newspapers Associaiton national meeting & events manager; Janice E. Smith, Morgan State University adjunct professor of strategic communications; Karen Price-Ward, Southwest Airlines community affairs & grassroots regional leader; and Dr. Patricia Scipio, Hogan Lovells internal audit risk managerPictured (LtoR) April Ryan, award-winning American Urban Radio Networks White House correspondent/author/CNN contributor; Al Hutchinson, Visit Baltiomore president/CEO; and Dionne Joyner-Weems, Visit Baltimore vice president of marketingPictured (LtoR) Clarence Campbell, Greater Baltimore Urban League board chair; Valerie Jarrett, former senior advisor to President Barack Obama/event keynote speaker; and J. Howard Henderson, Greater Baltimore Urban League president/CEOPictured (LtoR) Valerie Fraling, AFRO American “Living for the Weekend” columnist; Dr. Charlene Cooper-Boston, Baltimore City Public Schools former interim CEO; and Rev. Jerome Stephems, New Shiloh Baptist Church associate minister/senior staff member for Congressman Ben CardinPictured (LtoR) Danielle Alexander, BGE external affairs specialist; Lynn Hrdlick, BGE worker relations specialist; and Anita Jackson, BGE chief of staffPictured (LtoR) Quyen Nguyen, Wells Fargo regional bank district manager; and Dameon Brooks, Wells Fargo district managerThe Hilton Baltimore Hotel mezzanine was packed with the area’s movers-and-shakers enjoying the cocktail hour of the Greater Baltimore Urban League’s “60th Annual Whitney M. Young, Jr. Gala & Dinner.” The highlight of the evening would come after dinner in the ballroom with keynote speaker Valerie Jarrett, the former top White House advisor to President Barack Obama.
Sloane Brown
Baltimore's longtime fashion and social scene reporter, Sloane is the founder/managing editor of Baltimore Snap.
