2026 Annual GO Spring Benefit

In 2026, we came together to celebrate the achievements of our students and the generosity of our GO community.

Thanks to your incredible generosity, we raised over $2 million to support GO’s year-round academic, social-emotional, and family programming—ensuring our students have what they need to thrive during their most critical years.

The evening brought together 600 supporters to celebrate the community that makes GO’s work possible. This included our incredible honorees Raj Mahajan and the Office of Clinical Experiences at the Hunter College School of Education who are dedicated supporters of education equity for all students. We were so moved by GO Student Artess, who shared how GO has helped her grow in confidence and strengthen her academic skills. Our benefit co-chairs Kristin Cederholm, Alexandra Horwitz, Eliza Howard Trapp helped make this event such a glowing success, and we are deeply appreciative of them.

Supporters

Salutatorian

Christine Anderson & Jake Siewert 

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Kenneth C. Griffin, Citadel

Alexandra & Russell Horwitz

Cem Koray & Elizabeth McNellis

Lee & Sylvie Millstein

Marlaine & Andrew Olinick 

Amy Wong & Calvin Chin

NATIONAL HONORS

Brookfield 

CC Capital

Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation

Jane Street

John Howard & Lauren Howard DePalo 


Sonny & Michelle Kalsi

MJS Foundation Charitable Fund

Paxos

ProShares

Vasudha & Anuj Saxena 

Kevin & Joanne Smith 

Texas Stock Exchange 

Melanie & David Whelan

Zhao-Chen Family Charitable Fund

HIGH HONORS

Apollo Global Management

Azora Capital LP

Bloomberg

Kyung & Peter Bordes 

Kristin & Didric Cederholm 

CME Group 

Engineers Gate

Guardian Life Insurance 

Ramon & Brian Gumbel

Eliza Gray & Nick Summers 

Ericka T. Horan

John Hughes & Alli Tahmoush

IEX

Andie & Jon Kully

George C. Lee, III

Peter J. Lyon

MEMX 

Vanitha & Justin Milberg

Sophia & Andre Moura

Debbie & Ajay Nagpal

Nasdaq

Rachel & Ryan O'Connell

Ophelia & William Rudin Family Foundation

Park It Management

Anthony W. Pasquariello
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

PureStream

Jim & Diane Rowen

Jameson Schriber

Dominique Schulte & Darren Seirer

Securitize 

Select Equity Group 

Siegel Family Endowment

Alexa von Tobel & Michael Cliff Ryan

Eliza & Christopher Trapp

Andrew Tsai

Sara Whitney & Ted Omlid

Dean's List

Ana & Andre Appignani

Avalanche

Daniel & Melissa Berger

Leona & Winthrop Chamberlin 

Eric Chern 

Rebecca & Adam Dixon

Ernst & Young LLC

Jonathan H. Fine
Alison & John Flood

Cree Harland

Tiffany & Edward Koo

Christiane Macedo

Ann & Cameron MacRae
Alison Mass & Salvatore Bommarito

Sara Naison-Tarajano

Joseph A. Persky

PNC Bank

Jack A. Sebastian

Mo Shaikh

Sarah Stewart, The Corcoran Group

Jackie & David Stockel

Greg Tusar 

UBS

Jenny & James West

Sally & Anthony Zunino


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