Supporters for the Opera

You must continuously tell Emmett Till’s story until everyone’s consciousness rises. Only then will there be justice for Emmett Till. –  Mamie Till Mobley

“Celebration tonight with the creators of the magnificent Emmett Till opera. Clare Coss, librettist and Mary Watkins, composer.  With NYS Attorney General Letitia James and Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell.  At the home of the ever generous Janet Dewart Bell.”  
– Carol Jenkins, Host, Black America  

 HONORARY COMMITTEE OF SUPPORT (WITH US FROM THE START!)

Janet Dewart Bell   Catherine Chadwick   Kathleen Chalfant

Blanche W Cook   Danny Glover  Carol Jenkins   Patti Kenner  

Patricia Martone  John Morning  Barbara Rosen  Rebecca Seawright

Mary Silverman  Gloria Steinem  Caroline Stoessinger  Jamia Wilson


 FOUNDATION SUPPORT

COMMUNITY TRUST FOUNDATION   LUCIUS & EVA EASTMAN FUND 

FORD FOUNDATION   LOWER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY COUNCIL 

MAP FUND

NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS


GRATITUDE TO OUR FIVE OF HEARTS CIRCLE

Kathleen and Henry Chalfant, Blanche W Cook, “V” (Eve Ensler)

Lucille Field Goodman, Patti Kenner, Janet Kransberg

 Pat Martone and Barbara Rosen, Patsy Rogers, Ben and Jen Silverman

Kitty and Lewis Steele, Sandra Turner and Philippa Weissman


VAST APPRECIATION TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU

Liz Abzug and Erica Forman

Katherine Acey

Bettina Aptheker and Kate Miller

Carole Artigiani and Robert Scott

Sharona Bahns

Joslyn Barnes and Anita Nayar

Miranda Barry and Charlotte Sheedy

Jennifer Baumgardner

Keith Beauchamp

Alison Bernstein

Achebe Betty Powell

Ellen Bialo and Jeannette Downes

Terry Boggis

Richard Blum

Margaret Brown

Neal Brown and Judith LaBelle

Noel Brennan and Susannah Lessard

Timmie Buck and James Wiant

Jan Buckaloo

Charlotte Bunch and Roxanna Carrillo

Barbara Butterworth

Ann Cammett and Marcia Gallo

Chiqui Cartagena

Cheryl Clarke and Barbara Balliet

Judith Clarke

Christopher Cooley

Sandi Cooper

Katharine Cullison

Judy Daniels and Fredricka Leser

Joan David

Susan Davies and Claudia Slacik

Beva Eastman

Laura Flanders

Ellen Friedman

Linda Fraser

Judy Friedlander

Ginny Fox

Elizabeth Fuller

Osh Ghanimah

Barbara Glassman

Alvia Golden and Carroll Smith-Rosenberg

Helene Goldfarb

Bill Goldstein and Blake West

Jewelle Gomez and Diane Sabin

Sharron Good and Leslie Weisman

David Goodman

Judith Graves Miller

Ken Greenstein

Helen Hardacre and Linda Stein

David Harrison

Joyce Hartsfield

Gloria and Sam Hocking

Merle Hoffman

Deborah Hoffmann

Suzanne Iacenza

Carol Jenkins

Linda Kane

Temma Kaplan

Ardon Kessler and Karen Murtaugh

Alice Kessler-Harris and Bert Silverman

Louise Knight

Lynda Koolish and Jean Weisinger

Donna Korones

Phyllis Kriegel

Brooke Kroeger

Gabrielle Kurlander

Judith LaBelle and Neal Brown

Susan Lacy

Judy Lerner

Marjorie Lessem

Porter Lindbergh

David Levering Lewis

Michael Light

Jacqueline Lofaro

Linda Lofreddo

Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins, MD and Judy Boals

Harriette Mandeville

Anita Mandl

Michael Marcus

Jerry Markowitz and Andrea Vasquez

Camille Massey and Gillie Holme

Ruth Mayer

James McCann and Marylou McCann

Judith McDaniel and Jan Schwartz

Clare McGuire

Marilyn Mehr

LaBrenda Garrett Nelson and Paul Nelson

Kate O’Hanlan MD and Leonie Walker

Rosalind Petchesky

Dan Peters

Liz Player

Betty Prashker

Vera Elizabeth Pressman

Karen Ranucci and Michael Ratner

Julie Ratner

Claire Reed

Martha E Richards

Sandra Robinson

James G. Rogers

Dolores Root

Sylvia Rosenfeld

Toni Ross

Carlotta Rossini

Diane Sabin

Dorothy Sander

Rosita Sarnoff

Nora Schaaf

Dagmar Schultz

Rebecca Seawright

Mark Shapiro

Jonathan Silin

Mary Silverman

Margaret Smilow

Michael Steven Smith and Debby Smith

Nancy Stearns

Catharine Stimpson and Elizabeth Wood

Alan Teller

Alex Truesdell

Philip Turner

Edith Van Slyck

Lisa Vogel

Leonie Walker and Kate O’Hanlan MD

Shari Weiner

Peter Weiss and Cora Weiss

Kate Whitney

Timmie and Jim Wiant

Jamia Wilson

Ann Wiant-Rudd

Joan Wofford

Herbert Zohn