Tuesday, May 21st, 2019

Special Event - The Evening Celebration

6:15 PM - 8:30 PM

Hollywood and Sports Honors Dinner

Mini-Roundtable at the Dinner

Entertainment, Sports & Wellness Visionaries Outreach to the Community

Soshea Leibler, Lead Communications Specialist, CEDARS-SINAI

Sarah Adolphson, co-CEO, The Artemis Agency

Vikki Karan, Director of Business Affairs, Omaze

Chelsea Paulsen, Director, Special Events, The Madison Square Garden Company

Geni Lincoln, VP of Bookings, The Madison Square Garden Company

Moderator - Victoria Lanier, Executive Director, Education Through Music-Los Angeles

Sarah Adolphson, Co-CEO, The Artemis Agency: Sarah is an expert in philanthropic strategy with extensive experience bridging the public sector with celebrity and entertainment. As Co-CEO of The Artemis Agency, Sarah advises nonprofit, for profit, and celebrity clients on public/private partnerships, organizational strategy, brand building, performance measurement, and corporate social responsibility. Before joining The Artemis Agency, Sarah spent a decade leading the global philanthropic efforts for WME/IMG, working with high-profile clients to

create successful, robust charitable initiatives designed to raise awareness about their individual causes and interests. As the Executive Director of the WME Foundation, Sarah established all of the structure and programming for the organization’s domestic grantmaking, and its public-private partnership with the Compton Unified School District. Sarah also established the agency’s employee charitable matching, company drives, corporate event sponsorship models, and WME/IMG’s global company-wide day of service (Walk the Walk), which facilitated volunteer activities for nearly 5,000 employees in more than 130 communities around the world. Sarah began her career by serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia where she developed a passion and commitment to community engagemenand philanthropic service. She is a two-time Trojan, recently earning her Master’s Degree in Public Administration from USC’s Sol Price School of  Public Policy. Sarah on the board of The Art of Elysium, and resides in West Hollywood with her loving husband and three rescue dogs.

 

Soshea Leibler joined the Cedars-Sinai Communications team in 2013. She focuses on Cedars-Sinai’s Community Benefit programs including COACH for Kids, Healthy Habits, Share and Care, and Community Health and Education. In addition, she covers new technologies at the hospital, the Women’s Guild Simulation Center, Pediatrics and Volunteer Services. She also produces videos for the Cedars-Sinai Newsroom to share with media and the public. Formerly, Soshea was a TV news producer at CBS News.

 

Victoria Lanier founded Education Through Music-LA in 2006 as the first independent affiliate of the successful ETM model.  Under her leadership, ETM-LA has grown to currently serve over 15,000 at-risk youth.  She has been honored by the Ralph Lauren Polo G.I.V.E. Campaign and Los Angeles City Hall for her community work, and plays an active role in LA County’s Arts Innovation Lab to provide equity and access of the arts to all students.  She holds degrees from Princeton and Columbia Universities and has recorded violin for Fox Simpsons, Kanye West, and Christina Aguilera.