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 Cummings
Pictured (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 manager
Pictured (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 marketing
Pictured (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/CEO
Pictured (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 Cardin
Pictured (LtoR) Danielle Alexander, BGE external affairs specialist; Lynn Hrdlick, BGE worker relations specialist; and Anita Jackson, BGE chief of staff
Pictured (LtoR) Quyen Nguyen, Wells Fargo regional bank district manager; and Dameon Brooks, Wells Fargo district manager
The 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.
