Harvey Mason jr.Recording Academy CEO, entertainer Whoopi Goldberg and actress and entrepreneur Priscilla Presley are among 88 people to receive 2024 Ellis Island Medals of Honor, the Ellis Island Honors Society (EIHS) announced Wednesday (May 1).
The medal ceremony will take place on Saturday, May 18 during a black-tie gala in the Great Hall of Ellis Island, which served as a gateway for 12 million immigrants to the US.
The medal has been awarded annually since 1986 to Americans, both US-born and naturalized, in recognition of their contributions to finance, entertainment, technology, philanthropy and the media. “This is a celebration of determination, achievement and service,” said the EIHS President Nasser J. Kazeminy he said in a statement.
Mason, the son of famed drummer Harvey Mason, has received five Grammy nominations and two Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2002, Goldberg became the first black person – and the 10th person overall – to achieve EGOT status. Presley is the co-founder and former chairman of Elvis Presley Enterprises and an actress best known for Dallas and Naked weapon movies.
Other Ellis Island 2024 Medal of Honor recipients include the TED Talks curator Chris Anderson; NYSE Chair Sharon Bowen; former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph F. Dunford, Jr.; President of Princeton University Christopher L. Eisgruber; businessman and philanthropist David Rockefeller Jr. and documentary filmmaker, writer, artist and curator Susan Rockefeller; philanthropist and financier Michael Milken; CEO of Fortune magazine Alan Murray; Founder of Craigslist Craig Newmark; president and CEO of Montefiore Medicine Dr. Philip Ozuah; and founder of CNBC and MSNBC Tom Rogers.
To see the full list of 2024 recipients, click here.
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