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Filipino Reporter: AALDEF celebrates 45th anniversary in NYC with 2019 Justice in Action Awards
Filipino Reporter - On March 27, 2019, more than 650 people attended the 45th anniversary gala of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), a New York-based national organization that protects and promotes the civil rights of Asian-Americans.
The gala, held at Pier Sixty, Chelsea Piers in New York, included the presentation of AALDEF’s 2019 Justice in Action Awards to Michael C. Wu, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of Carter’s, Inc.; and Vanita Gupta, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the nation’s largest and oldest civil rights coalition…