Welcome to the 20th Anniversary Celebration
for The Foundation for Art & Healing
October 15, 2024
Alvin Ailey Studios in New York City
405 W 55th St, New York, NY 10019
Featured Guests
Honoree: Myrna Chao
Honoree: Joel Katz, MD
Returning MC: Kate Snow
Special Guest: Christina Norman
Featured Artist: Catherine Cabeen, MFA, RSMT/E
Event Info
Come join us for a night of fun and festivities at the Alvin Ailey Studios. We’re excited to celebrate this special milestone with all of our amazing supporters. No rubber chicken. No endless fundraising appeals. Think of this event as an “un-gala.” We’re focused on creativity, community, and connection.
- Hosted by NBC News Daily journalist and co-anchor, Kate Snow!
- Honoring Myrna Chao with the Pioneer Award in Arts & Health!
- Honoring Joel Katz, MD with the Pioneer Award in Arts & Health!
- Featuring remarks from celebrated actor and director Steve Buscemi
We’ll be honoring the key milestones that led us here, and look to what’s next in arts and health!
Our evening’s theme is CONNECTION and there will be abundant opportunity for guests to to participate in arts-based activities and connect!
Don’t miss out on this incredible event – mark your calendars, buy your tickets, and invite your friends to join in on the celebration. Let’s make this anniversary one to remember!
Attire: Let your inner artist design your outfit! We welcome creative and playful choices that express who you are and how you feel.
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An Evening Honoring:
Pioneer Award Winners in Arts and Health
Myrna Chao
Myrna is a seasoned Human Resource consultant with a wide range of expertise, including best practices in Inclusion & Diversity, talent management and retirement plans. In her capacity as Lead for the North America Retirement Talent Development Team at Willis Towers Watson, Myrna is one of four top business leaders responsible for driving robust growth in clients, people and profits.
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Her past successes in leading clients and business give her insights in achieving these growth goals by focusing on change management, talent development, Inclusion & Diversity, and succession planning.
Myrna has more than 30 years of experience in retirement plan consulting. She also serves as strategic advisor for some of the firm’s major clients. Previously, Myrna held various business leadership roles, including Northeast regional retirement leader for Towers Perrin and Metro New York Retirement Business Leader for Willis Towers Watson. She has also served as the Global Account Director and the lead retirement consultant for some of the firm’s largest clients.
Myrna has consulted in number of industries, including defense contractors, financial, non-profit, and higher education. She specializes in plan designs and financial management of pension plans. She has experience with Fortune 100 Boards and has given many speeches to various industry associations and served as panelist on topics ranging from financial management of pension plans to effective practices in Inclusion & Diversity.
Joel Katz, MD
Joel T. Katz, MD is Senior Vice President for Education at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. An art enthusiast, Dr. Katz has pioneered the field of health humanities education – in his case taking health professions education into art museums.
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In the galleries and in the studio, he teaches key but challenging competencies such as observation, clinical decision making, communication, collaboration, teambuilding, resilience and rejuvenation to students, nurses, physicians, administrators, and other interprofessional healthcare team members. Before medical school, Dr. Katz was a biomedical illustrator. He continues his artistic release by dabbling in watercolor and oil painting during his rare free time.
Returning as Master of Ceremonies
Kate Snow
Kate Snow is the co-anchor of NBC News Daily, the #1 afternoon news program in all of TV, and an award-winning Senior National Correspondent for NBC News. She contributes regularly across NBC News and MSNBC platforms, including for Nightly News with Lester Holt, TODAY, and Dateline NBC. Previously, she anchored the Sunday edition of NBC Nightly News for more than 8 years.
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Snow co-anchors NBC News Daily alongside Zinhle Essamuah each day from 2-4 p.m. ET on NBC and NBC News NOW. Launched in 2022, the program offers the top news headlines of the day, breaking news, as well as consumer-centric stories that impact viewer’s wallets, well-being, homes and families. Snow’s recurring segment “Good News” highlights positive, heartwarming stories. Additionally, Snow hosts NBC News’ The Drink with Kate Snow, a digital series and podcast where she speaks with innovators and influencers and dives into their success stories. In 2019, Snow created and hosted Relentless with Kate Snow, which aired on Oxygen and featured stories of crime survivors who were relentless in their pursuit of justice for a family member. From 2015-2017, Snow anchored a weekday news program on MSNBC, which featured newsmakers and fast-paced political coverage.
Snow is perhaps best known for insightful stories that make an impact, including her reporting on mental health, for which she was honored for by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. In 2019, Snow won an Emmy for her 2018 exclusive sit-down with Andrea Constand, who broke her 13-year silence about the case that led to Bill Cosby’s conviction. That Dateline hour followed Snow’s 2015 Dateline special with 27 Bill Cosby accusers in one room, which also won both Emmy and duPont awards. Additionally, her 2015 series about transgender children was called a “phenomenon,” as millions of people watched a video about 5-year-old Jacob that went viral on social media, and millions more watched stories on Nightly News and TODAY. Her Emmy-winning 2014 series, “Hooked: America’s Heroin Epidemic,” put a human face on a public health crisis, prompted congressional hearings and legislative action, and was praised by drug policy organizations.
Snow has also covered politics throughout her career, including six presidential elections, the White House and Congress. She has interviewed a wide range of newsmakers, from President Obama to Bono; Jeff Bezos to Ringo Starr. She pointedly questioned President Bill Clinton in his first interview after his wife lost the 2008 nomination. But she can just as easily sing a tune with Rick Springfield.
Prior to joining NBC News in 2010, Snow was the anchor of the weekend edition of ABC’s Good Morning America for six years. Previously, she was a White House correspondent for ABC News and a Congressional Correspondent for CNN.
Snow is the wife of radio host Chris Bro and the proud mom of their two children. She is a graduate of Cornell University and holds a Master’s degree in international affairs from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. She works closely with many charitable organizations and serves on the boards of Big Brothers Big Sisters of NYC and Access Psychology Foundation.
Snow is on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat at @tvkatesnow.
Special Guest
Christina Norman
Christina Norman is an accomplished creative and business leader with a successful track record building and managing world-class media brands. Connecting through the power of creativity has inspired Christina’s career and she is distinguished by her talent as an executive who leads with passion, builds collaborative partnerships, and delivers strong business results.
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Currently, she serves as Chief Creative Officer for The Moth, a Peabody Award winning non-profit that creates community through the art of storytelling. The Moth hosts over 600 storytelling events across the country, produces a podcast and a radio show heard on National Public Radio, and works globally in collaboration with The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Ford Foundation and others. Previously, she served as Head of Content for THINK450, the Innovation Engine of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA), creating opportunities for the world’s most influential athletes to deepen their connections to audiences through storytelling. Christina Created and Produced the documentary, Game Change Game, which chronicled the NBA Players fight for justice in the face of the pandemic and a social uprising, and which was an official selection of the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival.
A media innovator, Christina has held leadership positions across the industry, including CEO of OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, and President of both MTV and VH1.
She has been recognized with a variety of industry honors including Multichannel News’ “Wonder Women,” named to Cable Fax’s Most Powerful Women and Influential Minorities lists and has been included in The Hollywood Reporter “Power100 Women in Entertainment,” and a Governor’s Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for MTV’s “Fight For Rights” campaign.
Christina is on the Board of BRIC Arts Media Brooklyn, and Village Roadshow Entertainment Group.
Featured Artist
Catherine Cabeen, MFA, RSMT/E
Catherine Cabeen, MFA, RSMT/E, is an artist and teacher based in NYC. She is a former dancer with the Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Company (BTJ/AZ), the Martha Graham Dance Company, and Richard Move’s MoveOpolis!, among others. She directed Hyphen, an interdisciplinary performance company that toured internationally, from 2009-2019.
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As a choreographer, Cabeen has received commissions from On the Boards, Donald Byrd’s Spectrum Dance Theater, Seattle Art Museum, Gallery Galleon in Vieques PR, the Visa2Dance Festival in Dar Es Salaam, Alsarab Dance Company in Byblos Lebanon, The American LGBTQ Museum, and The New York Historic Society, among others. From 2019-2024 Cabeen created and performed an off-Broadway, two-woman comedy show, Glitter in the Gutter, in collaboration with Kristina Berger.
Cabeen is also a certified yoga instructor, a Registered Somatic Movement Therapist/Educator, and Mindfulness Meditation Teacher. Her study of yoga, meditation, and embodied healing practices over the last 30 years provides a strong and compassionate foundation for this work. Cabeen offers wellbeing sessions for groups and private 1:1 coaching sessions. She has been on the faculties of the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, Cornish College, University of Washington, Middlebury College, University of Wyoming, Taiwan University of the Arts, Yale, Princeton, and Marymount Manhattan College where she had the pleasure of teaching at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility through MMC’s prison education program. Catherine is currently a doctoral student in Developmental Psychology at CUNY Graduate Center.
You can learn more and contact Cabeen through; catherinecabeen.com.
Entertainment
Rahul Shah is a professional saxophonist and a woodwind doubler based in New York City. Having graduated in May of 2024 from the Manhattan School of Music, he is currently a specialist music teacher for Zeta Charter Schools, while simultaneously maintaining a full performance and private teaching schedule. Rahul and his group have performed at notable venues across NYC such as Smalls, Dizzy’s Coca-Cola Club, Birdland, Winnie’s Jazz Bar, etc.
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Most recently, Rahul was awarded first prize at the 2024 Carinthia International Jazz Saxophone Competition in Austria, making his international debut. Rahul has also had the privilege to play in several professional ensembles such as the GRAMMY Award winning Steven Feifke Big Band, the Jason Marshall Big Band, and alongside some of his heroes like Wynton Marsalis, John Clayton, Marcus Printup, Wycliffe Gordan, Lukas Gabric, and more.
Thank You to Our Collaborators
Production Partner, Awakened Films
Art Station Collaborator Partners, Lifecrafting
Projection Art Partner – awestruct.com



