Dr. Rafael Lantigua

Rafael Lantigua, M.D. is the Director, Office of Community Service Programs; Associate Dean for Community Service and Professor of Medicine, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Co-Director, Community Engagement…

Dr. Richard P. Mayeux

Richard P. Mayeux, MD, MSc, is a distinguished neurologist and epidemiologist holding the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Professorship in Neurology, Psychiatry, and Epidemiology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Additionally,…

Rachael Ray

Rachael Ray, the celebrated TV host and chef, extends her boundless energy beyond the screen to engage in philanthropic endeavors. Following the conclusion of her long-running daytime talk show, Rachael Ray embarked on a mission to provide essential…

Arthur Gianelli

Arthur Gianelli is the Chief Transformation Officer for the Mount Sinai Health System and President of Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital. As Chief Transformation Officer, Mr. Gianelli partners with leaders across the Mount Sinai Health System…

Dr. Ronald D. Adelman

Ronald D. Adelman, M.D. is the Emilie Roy Corey Professor of Geriatrics and Gerontology at the Weill Cornell School of Medicine.  In addition, he is Co-Chief of the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Weill Cornell-New York Presbyterian…

Peggy Shepard

Peggy Shepard is co-founder and executive director of WE ACT for Environmental Justice and has a long history of organizing and engaging Northern Manhattan residents in community-based planning and campaigns to address environmental protection…

David Amram

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David Amram started his professional life in music as a French Hornist in the National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.) in 1951. After serving in the US Army from 1952-54, he moved to New York City in 1955 and played French horn in the…

Arthur McGee

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On April 17, 2010, Legacies was inaugurated with an elegant fundraising event at the Fashion Institute of Technology where Arthur McGee, dubbed “the grandfather of African American fashion designers”, was celebrated. He was presented…

Geoffrey Holder

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  Actor, director, dancer, and choreographer Geoffrey Holder was honored at the 2014 LiLY Legacies Awards Gala. He died Oct. 5, 2014, at age 84. Born in Trinidad and Tobago Aug. 20, 1930, Holder was a man of flair who "used his manifold…

Adrian Benepe

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Adrian Benepe was the 14th Commissioner of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, serving in that role from February 4, 2002, to August 29, 2012, under Mayor Michael Bloomberg.   During his tenure, he oversaw 7,000 parks'…

Barry Benepe

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Over the course of his long career,  Barry Benepe has had a beneficial impact on the quality of life in our cities and towns. His greatest contribution so far is perhaps, in 1976 with colleague Bob Lewis, founding the “Greenmarket”, the…

Andrew Jenkins

Andrew Jenkins has been an important member of the LiLY community since the spring of 2011 when he joined LiLY’s corps of volunteers. He joined the Board later in 2011 and was Board President from 2014 through 2019. Andrew moved to New…

Nancy Wexler, PhD

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Nancy Wexler, Ph.D., is the Higgins Professor of Neuropsychology in the Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University as well as the President of the Hereditary Disease Foundation. Involved…

Brooke Bailey Johnson

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As a longtime leader in the US television and digital media business, Brooke Bailey Johnson has launched multiple iconic brands and new businesses. Most recently she served as President of the Food Category for Scripps Networks Interactive…

Cynthia Zirinsky

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Cynthia Zirinsky is the first recipient of LiLY’s Lifelong Hero Award, a new award that will be presented to amazing people who are over 85, and who don’t know what the word retirement means!  Cynthia Zirinsky is such a person.…

Craig R. Smith, MD

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Craig R. Smith, MD for his excellence as  surgeon and educator, and with an array of leadership qualities, plays two central roles in one of the nation’s top medical centers, Surgeon-in-Chief at New York Presbyterian Hospital and Chair…

Linda P. Fried

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Linda P. Fried, M.D., M.P.H., is Dean of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, Senior Vice President of Columbia University Medical Center, and DeLamar Professor of Public Health and Professor of Epidemiology and of Medicine.…

Jane E. Brody

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Called “the high priestess of health” by Time Magazine, Jane E. Brody is nationally treasured as an inspirational speaker and writer. Brody is the Personal Health columnist for The New York Times, a position she has held since 1976. Her…

Karl H. Krieger, MD

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With special expertise in treating the elderly, Karl Hemingway Krieger is the Philip Geier Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Vice Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center. …

Deborah McManus

Deborah McManus, who early in her career worked as a researcher for Time Magazine, enjoyed finding out about vital issues to bring to readers, including the lengthy Watergate saga in Washington D.C.  Because it was practically impossible for…

George Alexopoulos, MD

George S. Alexopoulos, M.D. is the S.P. Tobin and A.M. Cooper Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College, Professor of the Weill-Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, and founder and director of the Weill-Cornell…

Sandy Socolar, MSW

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Sandy Socolar, MA, MSW has long been committed to child care excellence for New York City’s working families.  After decades employed as a union organizer and then as a social worker, Ms. Socolar has — in her “retirement” — worked…

Herbert Pardes, MD

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During his entire and unprecedented career in health care, Dr. Pardes has been an outspoken proponent for academic medicine, medical research, children’s health education, mental health, access to care, humanism and empathy in care delivery,…