Featuring:
Gala Co-Chairs and OppNet Board Members
Daniel Craig
Actor
Rachel Weisz
Actor
Michael Rees
Managing Director and Head,
Dyal Capital Partners
As well as remarks from OppNet leadership, members of OppNet’s Board of Directors, and micro-films featuring our OppNet Fellows and this year’s Student Opportunity Award Recipients.
Welcome to OppNet’s first-ever Month of Opportunity virtual celebration!
While COVID-19 has disrupted our ability to gather 1,000 friends and supporters for our annual Night of Opportunity at Cipriani Wall Street as we normally do each year, OppNet’s commitment to our students, our impact, and our growth ahead remain uninterrupted. We are staying the course to serve nearly 1,050 students in NYC and 10,000 across the country through our aptly named new open-access platform, UninterruptED: Unstoppable Learning.
Join us here to celebrate our students and our community of partners and friends that sustain our critical work and efforts to ensure that young people from historically underrepresented backgrounds have equal access to educational and professional opportunities--and that their dreams, goals, and aspirations remain uninterrupted and unstoppable through the pandemic.
We extend our sincere thanks to all of our supporters who have joined us this year in supporting our Month of Opportunity and our COVID-19 response effort, and our Board of Directors, Associate Board of Directors, and Month of Opportunity Committee.
Please accept our deep gratitude for your partnership, investment, and commitment to our work and our students. Let’s celebrate!
Featured Story
Welcome to OppNet’s virtual Month of Opportunity celebration! Meet the OppNet Fellows you’ll be hearing from throughout the month.
OppNet Thank You Video
Stories: UninterruptED
Check back next week for more microfilms!
OppNet Thank You Video
Student Continuum Speakers
Opportunity Award Student Honoree Amber Paris Montalvo
“Who Is…” Video
Opportunity Award Student Honoree Thenuri Poththewela
Transcriptions
To help ensure the full participation of our students and their guests in our virtual Month of Opportunity celebration, OppNet is pleased to provide transcriptions of our students’ remarks in the following languages: English, Bengali, Spanish, French, Chinese, and Arabic.
Month of Opportunity Supporters
OppNet’s work would not be possible without our community of partners and friends. We are deeply grateful to the individuals, companies, and foundations who have so generously supported this year’s Month of Opportunity celebration. We are fortunate to have you in our network and appreciate the critical resources you bring to our work.
Chairman's Circle
Champions
Benefactors
Apax Foundation | Deloitte | Sarah and Dan O’Keefe* | Platinum Equity | The Rees Family* | Grant Verstandig | Rachel Weisz* and Daniel Craig*
Danjaq, LLC | Golub Capital | GreenPoint Partners | H.I.G. Capital, LLC | Kirkland & Ellis LLP | Anna Kovner and Seth Meisel* | KPS Capital Partners, LP | Owl Rock | Jeremy and Raquel Palmer* | RBC Capital Markets | Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP | WarnerMedia | Debbie and Chet Wood*
Anonymous | ADP | American Securities/Michael Fisch | Blue Harbour Group, L.P. | BofA Securities | Bridgepoint | Capstone Investment Advisors | Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP | Michael and Jennifer Davis* | Donnelley Financial Solutions | EY | Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, LLP | Goldman Sachs | HGGC | Industrial Development Funding, LLC/Nik Nunes* | The Katie McGrath & J.J. Abrams Family Foundation | MKP Capital Management | Jonathan M. Nelson | Okapi Partners LLC | Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP | The Permira Foundation | Robin and Michael Psaros+ | PwC | Round Hill Capital | Bharat and Ferha Sahgal* | Joanne and Paul Schnell* | Sixth Street Partners | Starwood Capital Group | Sun Capital Partners Foundation | Kenneth G. Tropin | TSG Consumer Partners | Vector Capital | Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP | Rita and Marc Weingarten*
Anonymous | Allen & Company | Amazon | Antin Infrastructure Partners | Aquiline Capital Partners | Michael Archer and Elizabeth Nieto* | Atalaya Capital Management LP | Bardin Hill Investment Partners LP | Cannon and Bruce Campbell* | Citi | Jennifer and Sean Cohan* | Credit Suisse | Priya Dogra* | ECI Software Solutions | Energy Capital Partners | Evercore | Goldman Sachs Consumer Retail Group | Dawn Hu§ | I Squared Capital | Innisfree M&A Incorporated | JPMorgan Chase & Co. | Rachel Kerzer and Ian Vick§ | Kohlberg Kravis Roberts | LibreMax Capital | Macquarie Investment Management | Macy’s | Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas | Morgan Stanley | The Narula Foundation | Nomura | Norton Rose Fulbright | The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation | PineBridge Investments | Pinnacle Asset Management, L.P. | PJT Partners | PNC Business Credit | George and Linnea Roberts | Rochdale Jet Privé | Ropes & Gray LLP | Alexa and Dan Ryan+ | Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP | SEI | David Shapiro and Abigail Pogrebin | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, & Flom LLP | Matthew Solum+ | Stax Inc. | George Thanopoulos and Kim Marsh | Jeff Wald+ | Norah and Brian Weinstein* | Wells Fargo | Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Anonymous | Alvarez & Marsal | Adrienne and Snehal Amin | Stephen Andrews | Tanya and Ryan Baker | Barclays | Katherine and Marco Birch | BMO Capital Markets | Joy Booker* | Branford Chain, Inc. | Ahmed Buhari | Katrien Carbonez | Comcast NBCUniversal | CPI | FX de Mallmann | Dave Eisman | Financial Risk Mitigation, Inc. | Dave and Julie Friedland | Leo and Jaclyn Greenberg+ | Rafael Hines§ | Craig and Lynn Jacobson | Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher | Kekst CNC | Steven and Marjorie Kellner | Sarah and Ele Klein | Marubeni America Corporation | The Mumford Family | Jo Natauri | NKSFB, LLC | Mark Norbom | Northern Trust | Nneka Norville* | Barry O’Brien | Daniel and Laura O’Donnell§ | Tom and Marti Omberg | Onyiriuka Family§ | Otter Media | David Peck | Alex Pellegrini | Peter and Laura Rothschild | Agatha Rudz§ | Adriana G. Salazar§ | Seymour Sammell | Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Schloss | Scopia Capital Management LP | Marshall Smith | David M. Solomon/Goldman Sachs Gives | Anna and Michael Switzer | Gregory Taxin | Vinson & Elkins LLP | Kimberly Welch | Wheelhouse Entertainment LLC | Amanda and Jason Wright*
Anonymous (3) | Garima Bansal | Silvia Campo and David Hermer | The Cardy Group | Dr. L. Carey Ledford | Stephanie Cohen and Erik Glover | Shavonne Correia | Jennifer Finkelstein | G-III Apparel Group, Ltd. | The Gettys Group | Glocap Search | Raquel and Michael Haas | Christy Haubegger | Caroline Kassie§ | Patricia and James Kronick | Wendy and Steven Langman | Danielle Ledford§ | Keith and Willia Ledford | Chris and Lizzie Livingston§ | Laura Marquez* | Sarah-Marie Martin and Nicholas Brophy | Monsieur Touton Selection, Ltd. | Nagle Family Foundation | Chris Ooten | Camila Pastor and Stephen Maharam | Alex Radke§ | Robyn Shepherd | Daniel and Petra Switzer | Tonkovich Family | Chip Toth | David and Susan Tunnell | Marc Utay/Clarion Capital Partners | John Wadsworth | Miriam Wheeler | Marcus and Sonia L Williams | WME | Ian and Gigi Woods*
Anonymous (3) | Roslyn Moira Allison | Cate Ambrose | Jacques Anderson§ | Yaisa Andrews-Zwilling | Brian and Jan Babiak | Colleen and Tom Baldwin | Jon Barfield | Jeff Baxter | Zack Bland | Greg Boguslavsky | Deirdre Bolton | Erika Bower | Bray Whaler | Robyn Buss | Anne and Scott Cannon | Christine and David Chanley | Brian Conry | Alexander and Erica Crisses | D.C. Capital | Katherine Daly | Christopher Dean | Stephanie DeClue | DEDON, Inc. | Sascha Douglass Greenberg | Ken and Bonnie Eggert | Dane Evans | Carly-Ann Fergus§ | Frontier Financial Group | Danny Gabriel | Kamal Gupta | Shea Haass | Karrie Hagedorn | Preston Henske | Kim Huskey and Gary Maurer | Sarah Jankowski§ and Sanjay Bhudia | Elisheva Jasie | Gareth Jeyes | Amy Kates | Laila Kollmorgen | Eric Krautheimer | Michael HC Lee§ | Heather and Jon Leef | Cindy and Jeffrey Lew | Marta Lopez | Pavithra Mahesh§ | Juliette and Darryl Mayers | Keith McKinnish | Sean Monaghan | Cara and Erik Moreno | Deanne Nezas | Nan Ni§ | Dennis O’Shea | Kristen Ott | Laura Pliska | Namrita Puri | Melissa Rich | Erica and Geraldo Rivera | Annerys Rodriguez | Joan Rosenbaum | Michael Rudin | Jack and Jodie Russi | Ari Ryan | Roger Saks | Lily Sanders | Rahul Sevani | Lilach Shafir | Sergio Smiriglio | Elisa M. Speranza | Ken Stemme | Alison Strong | Christian Tanja | Stephen Turchan§ | Amy Eldon Turteltaub | Angelica Van Pelt | Stephen T. Winn | Richard H. Yun§ | Ed Zimmerman
* Board of Directors
§ Associate Board of Directors
+ Month of Opportunity Committee
OppNet Leadership and Month of Opportunity Committee
OppNet’s Board of Directors, Associate Board of Directors, and Month of Opportunity Committee support our work personally and generously open up their networks to advocate on behalf of OppNet. We extend our gratitude to these special partners below for all of their support, efforts, and commitment to our students:
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
AILUN KU, President and CEO, The Opportunity Network*
DANIEL O’KEEFE, Chair, Partner, Apax Partners, LLP
SEAN COHAN, Treasurer, Chief Growth Officer and President, International, Nielsen Media
MARC WEINGARTEN, Secretary, Partner, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
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RAMIN ARANI, Chief Financial Officer, VICE Media
JOY BOOKER, Managing Director, Head of U.S. Public Client Relations, PineBridge Investments
BRUCE CAMPBELL, Chief Development, Distribution & Legal Officer, Discovery
DANIEL CRAIG, Actor
JENNIFER DAVIS, Partner, Goldman Sachs & Co.
PRIYA DOGRA, President, WarnerMedia Entertainment Networks, Europe, Middle East and Africa, & Asia Pacific, WarnerMedia
CHRIS GREEN, Founder and CEO, GreenPoint Partners
LAURA MARQUEZ, Global Lead for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Policy, Google
SETH MEISEL, Senior Managing Director, Blackstone
ELIZABETH NIETO, Head of Global Diversity and Inclusion, Amazon
NNEKA NORVILLE, Corporate Communications Manager, Facebook
NIK NUNES, CEO, Industrial Development Funding, LLC
RAQUEL VARGAS PALMER, Managing Partner, KPS Capital Partners
JESSICA PLISKA, Founder and Head of Leadership Giving, The Opportunity Network*
MICHAEL REES, Managing Director and Head, Dyal Capital Partners
FERHA SAHGAL
PAUL SCHNELL, Senior Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
BRIAN WEINSTEIN, Founder and Chairman Emeritus, President and COO, Bad Robot Productions
RACHEL WEISZ, Actor
CHESTER “CHET” J. WOOD, Partner, Deloitte LLP
GIGI STONE WOODS, Anchor/Producer, Stone Woods Media, NBC News/MSNBC
JASON WRIGHT, Chairman Emeritus, Partner, Apax Partners, LLP
*Ex officio member of the Board
ASSOCIATE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
LAURA O’DONNELL, Chair, Principal, Permira
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JACQUES ANDERSON, Co-founder and Chief of Staff, Stealth Venture, Redesign Health
ELIZABETH BRODIE DAVID, Strategic Initiatives, Pursuit
CARLY-ANN FERGUS, CAF Consulting, LLC
RAFAEL HINES, Vice President, Corporate Strategy and e-Commerce, Bugatchi
DAWN HU, Principal, Blackstone
SARAH JANKOWSKI, Vice President & Executive Director Data Intelligence & Data Governance, Goldman Sachs & Co.
CAROLINE KASSIE, Partner and General Counsel, Blockchange Ventures
DANIELLE LEDFORD, Senior Associate, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
MICHAEL HC LEE, Associate Director, Fitch Ratings
LIZZIE LIVINGSTON, Senior Manager, Global Consumer Operations, General Assembly
PAVITHRA MAHESH, Vice President, Apax Partners, LLP
NAN NI, Tax Manager – Special Acquisition Services, Deloitte LLP
JON ONYIRIUKA, Director, BTIG LLC
JOSUE PORTILLO, Vice President, Rates and Currencies Origination, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
ALEX RADKE, General Manager, US, HeraMED Limited
PARKER RHODES, Executive, Investor Relations, Cinven
AGATHA RUDZ, Vice President, Dyal Capital Partners
ADRIANA SALAZAR
JOSEPH SELBY, Vice President, Compliance, Macquarie Group
STEPHEN TURCHAN, Senior Account Executive, Yext
IAN VICK, York Capital Management
JEFFREY YIM, Senior Director, Strategic Financial Planning, Hospital for Special Surgery
RICHARD H. YUN, Vice President, JPMorgan Chase
MONTH OF OPPORTUNITY COMMITTEE
LEO M. GREENBERG, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
AJAY NARULA, President, Curtis Partition and Executive Director, The Narula Foundation
MICHAEL PSAROS, Co-Founder, KPS Capital Partners, LP
DAN RYAN, President, Agency 967
MATTHEW SOLUM, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
JEFF WALD, Founder, WorkMarket, an ADP Company
ERIC WEI, Managing Director, Advent International
OLIVER WIENER, Managing Director, BTIG LLC
