"THE MORE" at National Jefferson Awards Ceremony

Yes, there is more!  

Jourdan Urbach, a violin virtuoso, music was enchanting at the National Jefferson Youth Service Awards.  Jourdan was trained at Julliard and Yale University, and has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the United Nations.  As founder of Concerts for a Cure, Jourdan has raised over 10 million dollars to fight children's neurological diseases.  He is the recipient of the Tribecca Film Festival Innovator Award, World of Children Award, and the Jefferson Gold Medal Globe Changer Award for his work in Global Child Advocacy.  

Andrei Cherny  

Since leaving the White House, Andrei Cherny has been a leader in the national debate over America’s economic future – putting forward new ideas to turn our economy around and make America more competitive.  He’s served as a Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and at the Center for American Progress.  He wrote The Next Deal to offer a forward-thinking vision for our economy and the Candy-Bombers. 

Andrei’s cutting edge ideas have earned high praise.  He has been called a “superstar” by CNN, a “progressive reformer” by Washington Monthly, and one of America’s “top young thinkers” by the New York Times.

NFL All Star Troy Vincent and Giselle Fernandez (whose career has included CBS Early Show, CBS Evening News, NBC Today, NBC Nightly News, and Access Hollywood) have joined the Jefferson Awards Board.  They introduced and interviewed several of the National Jefferson Gold Medal Award Winners at the evening dinner and arena. 

Members of the Jefferson Board of Governors gave inspiring speeches regarding the mission and culture of Jefferson Awards and The Students In Action program.  The Students In Action program is a high school leadership development program. It sets out seven goals for student leaders to accomplish as they grow both their leadership skills and the overall culture of service in their school.  Topics include Ethics, Team building, Fundraising, Communications, Critical Thinking, Marketing and more. In 2012-2013, Jefferson Awards operated in 13 communities across the nation i over 325 high schools.  There were over 1900 student leaders trained and responsible for a total of more than 1.5 million service hours, federally rated at $32.3 million.   

Kathleen Townsend Kennedy

Troy Vincent, Hillary Beard Schafer, Mark Shafir

Troy Vincent, Robert Sakowitz, 

Jack Russi (Deloitte Partner) 

Robert Provost                                          ,Executive Marketing Director, Star Ledger  

 

Frank McIntosh and Benedictine Academy

(R to L: Elieen Conaty, Marina Santiago, Karol Pierre, and Kayla Roque 

representing their BA Sisters of the Students In Action Leadership Team 

and the Benedictine Cor Defenders.)