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

Bryce Fluellen, Community Impact Director/Chef, American Heart Association

Dawn Wilcox, Vice President Corporate Partnerships, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Carye Parker, CEO of Branding & Entertainment, Anthem Communication

Carrie Patterson, Chief Operations Director, WE Charity, WE

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

Clare Fox, Executive Director, Los Angeles Food Policy Council

Moderator - Dr. Jacqueline Sanderlin, Education Consultant & Personality, CEO/Founder, Why Not Incubator

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. Dawn Wilcox is vice president of Corporate Partnerships at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. In this role, she oversees a team of 14 who manage the day-to-day activities of more than 150 corporate partners, Hollywood Cares for Kids and All Stars for Kids (uniting the entertainment and sports industry in support of CHLA).  She creates and manages consumer engagement, cause marketing, corporate philanthropy and employee volunteer programs including Companies for Kids and the successful annual Make March Matter campaign which has raised millions of dollars for CHLA since it launched in 2016. Dawn is an award-winning public relations and marketing professional with more than 23 years of cause marketing, client and corporate relations, social impact and leadership experience. She came to CHLA after eight and a half years at Allison+Partners, a global public relations agency where she ran the Los Angeles office and served as managing director of the Social Impact Practice. She has been working with corporations and not-for-profit organizations since 1995, creating and managing social impact programs for issues such as child abuse prevention, teen pregnancy, literacy, school reform, disability rights, reproductive health, traffic safety and family violence prevention. Dawn also previously served as a senior vice president at Ogilvy Public Relations and principal of her own firm, Penguin PR. Dawn received her bachelor's degree in journalism and English from California State University, Chico.

Carrie Patterson has a long and extensive career specializing in work with young people around the world.  She comes to WE with over 12 years’ experience from the Tim Horton Children’s Foundation where she finished her time as the Director of Operations, responsible for supervising the camp operations in Kentucky, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, and Manitoba. Patterson began attending camp herself at young age of 8 and attributes the lessons she learned at camp to molding her into the strong leader she is today and has brought those valuable lessons with her to WE. Her diverse experience with youth also includes serving on the Board of Directors for a number of non-profit organizations. She recently finished her term as Chair of the Board of Directors for Camp To Belong; an organization that reunites brothers and sisters separated from foster, adoptive or kinship homes through Summer Camp Programs. Patterson holds an Honours degree in Business Administration from Wilfred Laurier University located in Ontario, Canada and in her spare time she enjoys staying active and participates in marathons and triathlons. Patterson now serves as the Chief Operations Director for WE Charity, responsible for all WE Schools programs including, the WE Global Learning Center and the exciting and innovative programs taking place in the center as well as online.  She also leads all WE leadership programming and camps.  She oversees teams in 3 countries who are dedicated to bringing experiential service learning to life for millions young people around the world. Patterson is passionate about empowering youth and strives to provide young people with transformative experiences through the WE Schools Program.

Clare Fox is a civic and non-profit leader with experience in cross-sector campaigns focused on environmental, health and social justice. She is the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Food Policy Council (LAFPC), a non-profit organization with a mission to make food healthy, affordable, sustainable and fair for all. In this role, she partners with a large network of public, private, non-profit and community leaders to change policies that promote ‘Good Food For All’ – the motto of LAFPC. Under Clare’s leadership, LAFPC has grown its partnership network to over 400 food organizations. First joining LAFPC in 2011, she led the organization toward several legislative wins, including universal food stamps at farmer’s markets, the first county urban agriculture program, first citywide food rescue program, decriminalizing street food, and expanding Good Food Purchasing Policy to include Los Angeles World Airports (LAX), City of Los Angeles Greek Theater and Summer Lunch Program, now improving over 11 million meals with local, sustainable, organic and fair food. Clare created the nationally-recognized Healthy Neighborhood Market Network, a program that fights ‘food deserts’ by working with neighborhood businesses to bring fresh food to low-income families, which has trained over 350 entrepreneurs since 2012. In her first career, she was a radio producer at National Public Radio and Youth Radio, where she taught radio and media production to teenagers throughout Los Angeles – from Boyle Heights to Inglewood. She currently serves on Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Los Angeles Promise Zone Leadership Council, the Board of Directors for LA Compost, and was a founding board member of Critical Mass Dance Company. Trained as an urban planner at UCLA with a background in critical theory, Clare is an adept facilitator and group experience designer, with a passion for igniting leadership for a just and regenerative world.

Bryce Fluellen, Community Impact Director & Chef, American Heart Association LA: As American Heart Association’s LA , Community Impact Director & Chef , Bryce has leveraged his 20 years of community development experience and his creative blending of business and culinary skills to advocate for health improvement, especially in underserved, urban areas across the country. He joined the AHA almost 5 years ago to help grow Kids/Teens Cook with Heart (A healthy cooking program for youth ages 8- 18 yrs. old) and has positively impacted over 5,000 children and adults throughout Los Angeles County. In 2017, his role expanded to include youth-oriented health initiatives overall as the Senior Manager, of Community Impact and now in his current role he is responsible for improving heart health outcomes for the communities of South LA, Long Beach, South Bay , & Inglewood. Bryce is a passionate advocate for health and enjoys running 5 & 10k’s . His goal is to complete his first half-marathon by the Spring of 2019. He’s an author and published his first book, Food A Vehicle for healing ( The fruitful journey) PT. 1 in 2016. His work has been featured in Huffington Post, Uproxx media, CBS & NBC news, LA Sentinel, and Disney Jr. He resides in the San Fernando Valley area with his wife & three kids.