2019 Gala
Past Events – 50th Anniversary – CEF Gala 2019
Date: September 18, 2019 (Wednesday)
Location: Hotel Intercontinental – The Wharf
CEF’s education gala is DC’s premier education event. It is the one night when the education community – advocates, policy-makers, and administrators – come together in support of education funding to honor those who have demonstrated their strong commitment to increasing the federal investment in education for the success of our nation’s students.
Rep. DeLauro and CEF President Stephanie Giesecke (NAICU)
Rep. DeLauro speaks to the gala
Rep. DeLauro, 2015 NTOY Shanna Peeples and 2019 NTOY Rodney Robinson
Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI)
Rep. Gwen Moore and NTOY Rodney Robinson
Rep. Gwen Moore and Rep. Rosa DeLauro
Rep. DeLauro and Rene Hood (American Counseling Association)
Rep. DeLauro and Scot Fleming
Rep. DeLauro, Jane West, Ashley White
Rodney Robinson (National Teacher of the Year) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro
Stairs
CASE-MRM Associates
CEF Board, Rep. Hayes, Rodney Robinson
Kimberly Jones (COE), Rep. Gwen Moore, Rep. Rosa DeLauro
NTOY Rodney Robinson
AFSCME
NAICU
Valerie Williams (NASDSE), Rodney Robinson, Luis Maldonado (AASCU)
ACTE – Mike Mathews and Hannah Neeper
AJCU table
ASHA
Banquet Hall
Bose Public Affairs Group
CEC Kandrisa Alston and Deborah Ziegler
Chris Rogers (AASA) and NAFIS’s Leslie Finnan and Nicole Jarvis
Dylan Opalich (Sen. Booker) and Katherine Wheatle (Lumina)
Lumina Foundation – Katherine Wheatle and Jesse O’Connell
Myrna Mandlawitz (CASE) and Stephanie Giesecke (NAICU)
NAICU – Stephanie Giesecke (CEF President) and Barbara Mistick (NAICU President)
NAICU
NASFAA
NEA
Philip Tizzani (House Labor-HHS-ED) and Samuel Chasin (YMCA)
Rodney Robinson and Peter DeYoe (Harvard)
Sam Dunietz (AdvanceCTE) and Rich Williams (Pew Trusts)
Sarah Sattelmeyer (Pew Trusts) and Emmanual Guillory (UNCF)
Sponsors – Star Students
Sponsors – Straight As
Stephanie Salvador (COE), Alejandra Acosta (New America), Chelsea Murray (COE)
USPIRG past and present
CCSSO – Shanna Peeples (2015 NTOY) and Rep Jahana Hayes (2016 NTOY)
CEF Executive Director Sheryl Cohen
CEF President Stephanie Giesecke (NAICU)
CEF Treasurer Luis Maldonado (AASCU)
CEF Vice President Valerie C. Williams (NASDSE)
Rep. Hayes and NTOY Rodney Robinson
Rep. Jahana Hayes
Rodney Robinson – 2019 NTOY
Tribute to Cyndy Littlefield
09.18.19 – CEF conference
09.18.19 – Panel 2 – Jess Gartner, Josh Starr, Valerie Williams
09.18.19 -Panel 1 and CEF President Stephanie Giesecke (NAICU)
Audience
Bill Hoagland – Bipartisan Policy Center
Bruce Baker – Rutgers University
Jess Gartner – Allovue
Josh Starr, PDK International
Mike Leachman – Center on Budgt and Policy Priorities
Sarah Abernathy, CEF
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