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20TH ANNUAL EVENING OF ART THURSDAY, MAY 31, 2012 6:00 - 9:00PM THE WALLIS ANNENBERG BUILDING at the California Science Center honoring |
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| We are proud to honor the following at this year's event for their contributions to The HeArt Project and the creative community. We hope you will join us on May 31st to celebrate their commitment to The HeArt Project and the students we serve. | ||
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LESLIE GILBERT-LURIE Author of Bending Toward the Sun, Founding Board Member for the Alliance for Children's Rights, and Former President of the Los Angeles County Board of Education Leslie Gilbert-Lurie is a writer, lawyer, teacher, and child advocate. She is a member and past President of the Los Angeles County Board of Education, and recently completed a memoir, Bending Toward the Sun. Gilbert-Lurie also is a founding board member and immediate past President of the Alliance for Children's Rights, a non-profit legal rights organization for indigent children, chair of the education committee for the Los Angeles Music Center, and a board member of several schools including Sierra Canyon and New Visions Foundation. Previously, Gilbert-Lurie spent close to a decade as an executive at NBC, where, at various times, she oversaw NBC Productions, Comedy, wrote television episodes, and co-founded a new NBC in-house production company, Lurie-Horwits productions. As a lawyer, she worked briefly at the law firm of Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg and Tunney and served as a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Law Clerk. She is a graduate of UCLA and UCLA School of Law. |
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