The Midsummer Angel Gala

Our Objective:

Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation’s Young Professional Committee’s Midsummer Angel Gala was born from the desire of young professionals to give back and make a difference in the fight against cancer. Chaired by Hugh Barton, Chimere Cisse, Julia Nikonovaite, Thomas E. Pierce II and Alexander Ulvsgard, the inaugural event on June 24th, 2019 featured cocktails and a DJ in a dreamy midsummer night’s setting at the Moxy Hotel’s Fleur Room in Chelsea. The event committee features many young professionals with extensive social media reach and engagement which will be actively utilized for event and sponsor promotion. All proceeds went towards Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation’s support of music therapy. Music therapy provides one on one patient and family care with bedside visits. Music helps to relieve symptoms such as pain, anxiety, isolation and provides solace to patients at end stage of their disease. Gabrielle believed that “Music Heals the Soul” and this program was created with her love of music and of helping others in mind. Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation for Cancer Research was created in memory of Gabrielle Rich Aoaud who died of leukemia in 1996 at the age of 27. It was her wish and vision to fund research so that others would not suffer as she did. Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation funds the best and brightest young scientists who are searching for better treatments, preventions and cures for leukemia, lymphoma and other blood cancers. 

Thank you!

Thank you to all of our supporters who made our first ever Midsummer Angel Gala such a success! We raised over $100,000 for our mission and are so grateful for your support. Click here for more photos from the event and stay tuned for details about our next Midsummer Angel Gala in summer 2020!