PAST EVENTS

2006 Los Angeles Awards Reception
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

The Los Angeles Influencer Awards Reception was presented by Urban Influence Magazine and Macy’s West; co-hosted by the Los Angeles Urban League Young Professionals (LAULYP).

The fifth event in the series of Influencer Receptions was held this past December at the Bel Age Hotel in West Hollywood, California. More than 200 attendees witnessed the special honors given in the four categories of Community Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Career Excellence and Mentoring.

Macy’s West Vice President of External Affairs and Diversity Management, Carolyn Jackson, shared remarks and presented each of the honorees with a $150 gift cards, just in time for the holiday shopping season. Honorees also received huge gift baskets which included autographed books by Tavis Smiley, annual subscriptions to Urban Influence Magazine, product samples from Clear Essence, and 2 roundtrip tickets on Southwest Airlines, to anywhere the carrier flies.

Honorees included:

• Mentoring TORCH Award - Gene & Sandra Fisher, Founder and President, Watts Learning Center
• Entrepreneurship Award - Cherice R. Calhoun, Founder and Publisher, BlackNLA.com
• Career Excellence - Milton L. Payne, Doctor of Chiropractic
• Community Leadership – Justin Sanders, Senior Associate, Sidley Austin LLP, former President, LAULYP

LAULYP president, Felton Newell, was the emcee for the evening and UIM Publisher, Tamara Brown opened the program with a video presentation about UIM.

Previous Influencer Awards receptions were held in Baltimore, Chicago, Atlanta and New York.

2006 Influencer Awards Reception: 'A Toast to Excellence'
NEW YORK - CHICAGO - LOS ANGELES - MIAMI

NEW YORK
Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
7-9:30 PM
Providence
Triumph Room
311 West 57th Street, NYC

The Influencer Awards Receptions are a series of intimate after-work, networking events designed to recognize four emerging “Influencers” who embody excellence in the areas of Community Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Career Excellence and the prestigious Mentoring TORCH Award!

Expand your network and connect with the best and brightest young professionals, entrepreneurs and trailblazers… Meet your local chapter of the National Urban League Young Professionals and learn about the movement.

Stay tuned for location, date and time information and how to get on the list!

2005 Influencer Awards: 'A Toast to Excellence' Recap

Urban Influence Magazine honored four emerging leaders with the
inaugural Influencer Award in a historic celebration at the 2005
Influencer Summit in Washington, DC.

Over 300 attendees at the Toast of Excellence Reception witnessed in awe as esteemed presenters Dr. Cornel West, Tavis Smiley, Cathy Hughes and Tamara M. Brown paid homage to four influencers who embody excellence.

Urban Influence Magazine Publisher Tamara M. Brown, who created the magazine to speak to the spirit, ambition and social conscience of today's emerging leaders, presented B. Michael Young, National President, NULYP with the Publisher's Award.

Cathy Hughes, Founder and Chairperson of Radio One Inc., presented the Influencer Award to U.S. State Representative Harold Ford, Jr. (D-TN). Broadcaster and Author Tavis Smiley presented the award to Victor Marsh, a recent Stanford graduate off to Princeton this Fall for graduate studies. The highlight of the evening was the profound speech by Dr. Cornel West in honor of Eddie Glaude, Director of African-American Studies at Princeton University.

Many notables were in attendance including Dick Gregory, George Fraser, Yvette Moyo, Kofi Moyo and John Mack (former Los Angeles Urban League President). The Influencer Awards was sponsored by U.S. Cellular, SunTrust, Urban Financial Services Coalition, Allstate Insurance Company, PG&E Corporation and Winston & Strawn LLP.