Thank you to all who celebrated our
31st Inspiration Awards Gala with us on April 26, 2023.
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"To the young Asian American makers and dreamers, I want to say this to you.
You don’t have anything to prove. We are already proud of you."
— Ocean Vuong, 31st Inspiration Awards Gala Honoree
On Wednesday, April 26th, we gathered with our closest friends and supporters to celebrate our 31st Inspiration Awards Gala at Cipriani South Street. Thanks to your incredible generosity, we raised a record-breaking $3.2 million to empower Asian American and immigrant youth in New York City and beyond! These funds will go towards expanding our programs into the borough of Queens, where currently half the population of New York’s low income Asian American youth reside.
Click above to view photos from the 31st Inspiration Awards Gala
Click above to view photos from the Afterparty at Fish Cheeks
साइमन किम ग्रैशियस हॉस्पिटैलिटी मैनेजमेंट के मालिक हैं, जो मैनहट्टन के फ्लैटिरोन जिले में मिशेलिन-तारांकित कोट कोरियन स्टीकहाउस, कोट मियामी और बेस्पोक कॉकटेल लाउंज अंडरकोट के पीछे का ब्रांड है, और इसके पास रोमांचक नई परियोजनाएं भी हैं।
Ocean Vuong is the author of The New York Times bestselling poetry collection, Time is a Mother (Penguin Press 2022), and The New York Times bestselling novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Press 2019), which has been translated into 37 languages.
Chloe Flower is a pianist, composer, activist, fashion icon, and so much more. She is bridging the gap between classical and pop with her self-created genre — POPSICAL — which is showcased in her 2021 eponymous debut album, Chloe Flower.
Sally Wen Mao is the author of two poetry collections, Oculus, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Mad Honey Symposium. The recipient of two Pushcart Prizes and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, her upcoming works include The Kingdom of Surfaces और Ninetails.
साइमन किम ग्रैशियस हॉस्पिटैलिटी मैनेजमेंट के मालिक हैं, जो मैनहट्टन के फ्लैटिरोन जिले में मिशेलिन-तारांकित कोट कोरियन स्टीकहाउस, कोट मियामी और बेस्पोक कॉकटेल लाउंज अंडरकोट के पीछे का ब्रांड है, और इसके पास रोमांचक नई परियोजनाएं भी हैं।
सियोल में जन्मे किम ने नेवादा विश्वविद्यालय में होटल प्रशासन की पढ़ाई के दौरान लास वेगास के एमजीएम ग्रैंड होटल और कैसीनो में अपने आतिथ्य करियर की शुरुआत की। उन्होंने जीन-जॉर्जेस वोंगरिचटेन और थॉमस केलर जैसे जाने-माने शेफ्स की फ्रंट-ऑफ-हाउस टीमों का नेतृत्व किया और 31 साल की छोटी सी उम्र में अपना पहला मिशेलिन-स्टार रेस्टोरेंट, पियोरा, खोला।
अपने जीवन भर के सपने को साकार करते हुए, साइमन ने 2017 में COTE की शुरुआत की, जो न्यूयॉर्क शहर का पहला कोरियाई स्टीकहाउस और दुनिया का एकमात्र मिशेलिन-स्टार प्राप्त कोरियाई टेबलटॉप ग्रिल रेस्टोरेंट था। शहर के डिज़ाइन डिस्ट्रिक्ट में अपने पहले ही साल में शानदार प्रदर्शन के बाद, COTE मियामी ने भी यह सम्मान साझा किया है। COTE ने अपने शुरुआती कुछ महीनों में ही कई पुरस्कार अर्जित किए, जिनमें GQ का अमेरिका में सर्वश्रेष्ठ नए रेस्टोरेंट, द न्यूयॉर्क टाइम्स और न्यूयॉर्क मैगज़ीन से दो स्टार, जेम्स बियर्ड फाउंडेशन पुरस्कार के लिए नामांकन, और सर्वश्रेष्ठ नए रेस्टोरेंट और उत्कृष्ट वाइन सूची के लिए सेमीफाइनलिस्ट का दर्जा शामिल है।
An Associate Board Member of the National Restaurant Association, EY Entrepreneur of the Year New York 2022 winner, Crain’s 40 under 40 honoree, and recipient of the Next Generation Award from the NYC Hospitality Alliance, Simon is not only a leader in the industry known for his creative and polished execution but one that is passionate about supporting local Asian American communities. In 2021, Simon founded Taste of Asia, an annual tasting event celebrating New York City’s AAPI communities. Featuring a curated selection of 40 restaurants serving Asian-inspired bites in Madison Square Park, this event honors the diversity and vitality of AAPI culture and cuisine in New York City and beyond, raising $1.2M in its inaugural year and $1.4M in 2022 for three organizations: City Harvest, where Simon sits on their Board of Directors and is an active participant on their Food Council, Apex for Youth and Madison Square Park Conservancy. Simon is also a Board member of the National Restaurant Association and a father of two.
महासागर वुओंग
Ocean Vuong is the author of The New York Times bestselling poetry collection, Time is a Mother (Penguin Press 2022), and The New York Times bestselling novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Press 2019), which has been translated into 37 languages. A recipient of a 2019 MacArthur “Genius” Grant, he is also the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2016, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Whiting Award, the Thom Gunn Award, and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. A Ruth Lilly fellow from the Poetry Foundation, his honors include fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, The Elizabeth George Foundation, The Academy of American Poets, and the Pushcart Prize.
Vuong’s writings have been featured in The Atlantic, Granta, Harpers, The Nation, New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Village Voice, and American Poetry Review, which awarded him the Stanley Kunitz Prize for Younger Poets. Selected by Foreign Policy magazine as a 2016 100 Leading Global Thinker, Ocean was also named by BuzzFeed Books as one of “32 Essential Asian American Writers” and has been profiled on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” PBS NewsHour, Teen Vogue, Interview, Poets & Writers, and The New Yorker.
वियतनाम के साइगॉन में जन्मे और कनेक्टिकट के हार्टफोर्ड में नेल सैलून और फैक्ट्री मजदूरों के एक मजदूर वर्ग के परिवार में पले-बढ़े, उन्होंने पास के मैनचेस्टर कम्युनिटी कॉलेज में शिक्षा प्राप्त की और फिर पेस विश्वविद्यालय में अंतर्राष्ट्रीय विपणन का अध्ययन करने के लिए चले गए। अपना पहला सत्र पूरा किए बिना ही, उन्होंने बिज़नेस स्कूल छोड़ दिया और ब्रुकलिन कॉलेज में दाखिला ले लिया, जहाँ से उन्होंने उन्नीसवीं सदी के अमेरिकी साहित्य में स्नातक की उपाधि प्राप्त की। इसके बाद उन्होंने न्यूयॉर्क विश्वविद्यालय से कविता में एमएफए किया।
वह वर्तमान में नॉर्थम्प्टन, मैसाचुसेट्स में रहते हैं और NYU में क्रिएटिव राइटिंग MFA प्रोग्राम में स्थायी प्रोफेसर के रूप में कार्यरत हैं।
Chloe Flower
Chloe Flower is a pianist, composer, activist, fashion icon, and so much more. She is bridging the gap between classical and pop with her self-created genre — POPSICAL — which is showcased in her 2021 eponymous debut album, Chloe Flower. Born in Pennsylvania, Chloe first reached for piano keys at the age of two. By twelve, she was studying at the Manhattan School of Music followed by London’s Royal Academy of Music.
The multi-hyphenate star has become music and fashion’s go-to creator as she intertwines her personal couture style and unique sound into something the industry has never seen or heard. Serving as an Official Steinway artist, over the years Chloe has grown into a musical powerhouse — from her show-stopping 2019 GRAMMY® Awards performance with Cardi B to her featured performance with Lil Baby on Saturday Night Live (SNL).
Aside from her own music, Chloe has co-produced and composed for Céline Dion, Johnny Mathis, 2 Chainz, Swae Lee, NAS, Babyface, and more. Additionally, she has scored Misty Copeland’s documentary, A Ballerina’s Tale, numerous works for Kevin Hart including Hart to Hart (NBC), On the Come Up for Paramount+, and original compositions for champagne house, Krug.
Chloe is an ardent advocate of anti-human trafficking and a champion of music education and therapy. She serves as an Artist Ambassador for the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime and the youngest board member of The Liberace Foundation.
www.chloeflower.com
Sally Wen Mao
Sally Wen Mao is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection The Kingdom of Surfaces (Graywolf Press, 2023), and the forthcoming story collection Ninetails (Penguin Books). She is also the author of two previous poetry collections, Oculus (Graywolf Press, 2019), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Mad Honey Symposium (Alice James Books, 2014). The recipient of two Pushcart Prizes and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, she was recently a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library and a Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute.