Harvey Mason Jr. & Priscilla Presley to Get Ellis Island Medal
Harvey Mason jr., CEO of the Recording Academy, entertainer Whoopi Goldberg and actress and businesswoman Priscilla Presley are amongst 88 people who will receive 2024 Ellis Island Medals of Honor, the Ellis Island Honors Culture (EIHS) introduced on Wednesday (Could 1).
The medal ceremony will decide on position on Saturday, May well maybe 18 for the duration of a black-tie gala in Ellis Island’s Excellent Corridor, which served as the gateway for 12 million immigrants to the U.S.
The medal has been awarded just about every year provided that 1986 to Americans, each equally U.S.-born and naturalized, to acknowledge contributions in finance, leisure, technological know-how, philanthropy and media. “This is a celebration of determination, achievement and solutions,” EIHS Chairman Nasser J. Kazeminy claimed in a statement.
Mason, the son of famed drummer Harvey Mason, has acquired five Grammy nominations and two Primetime Emmy nods. In 2002, Goldberg became the initial Black man or lady – and the 10th certain individual all round – to realize EGOT position. Presley is the cofounder and former chairperson of Elvis Presley Enterprises and an actress really very best regarded for Dallas and the Naked Gun films.
Other 2024 Ellis Island Medal of Honor recipients include curator of TED Talks Chris Anderson NYSE chair Sharon Bowen earlier chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Group Popular Joseph F. Dunford, Jr. Princeton University president Christopher L. Eisgruber businessman and philanthropist David Rockefeller Jr. and documentary filmmaker, writer, artist and conservationist Susan Rockefeller philanthropist and financier Michael Milken CEO of Fortune magazine Alan Murray Craigslist founder Craig Newmark president and CEO of Montefiore Medicine Dr. Philip Ozuah and founder of CNBC and MSNBC Tom Rogers.
To see the complete listing of 2024 recipients, click on listed right here.
