“All the World’s a Stage!”

SPRING GALA CELEBRATION TO BENEFIT
LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE

Thursday, May 4, 2023 | Cipriani 42nd Street

Featuring the Presentation of the

ELIZABETH ROHATYN AWARDS FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE

Dr. Soyoun Im, Northwell Health-Lenox Hill Hospital
Natasha Pickowicz, Chef and Writer

Dr. Soyoun Im, Northwell Health-Lenox Hill Hospital
2023 Elizabeth Rohatyn Award Recipient
Cyndie Soyoun Im, M.D. is a primary care physician, medical educator and an advocate for her patients. Her mission for the underserved community health began early in her medical training, working as a clinical volunteer and serving on the administrative board for a student-run free clinic in the South Bronx. Her two years of residency training at St. Vincent's Catholic Medical Center further prepared her for providing primary care to individuals who are homeless in various New York City shelters and domestic violence shelters, as well as to individuals living in SRO housing. As a chief resident at Lenox Hill Hospital, where she completed her training after St. Vincent's closure, she created homeless shelter outreach activities for her residents to increase their awareness of barriers to medical care.

As faculty, Dr. Im has continued her efforts by instituting a formal residency curriculum on underserved community medicine, funded by Zucker School of Medicine and The Auxiliary of Lenox Hill Hospital. Through this program, she and her intercollegiate team at Northwell Health and Lenox Hill Neighborhood House have collaborated successfully to increase and maintain access to medical care to the clients at our Women's Mental Health Shelter at the Park Avenue Armory, providing screening, routine primary care, acute and chronic medical treatments, and supporting them through stages of rehabilitation for housing as well as their health.

Dr. Im is an associate program director for medicine residency at Lenox Hill Hospital, acting division chief of the medicine department and founding member of the Elizabeth Blackwell Society for Mentorship for Women Physicians, and currently serves on Northwell Health's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Leadership Council. A long-time New Yorker and an alumna of Columbia College, Manhattan School of Music, and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, she enjoys classical music, cooking and supporting local community organizations in her new neighborhood in Jersey City with her husband and their daughter.

Natasha Pickowicz, Chef and Writer
2023 Elizabeth Rohatyn Award Recipient
Natasha Pickowicz is a New York City–based chef and writer and a three-time James Beard Foundation Award finalist. Her new book, More Than Cake: 100 Baking Recipes Built for Pleasure and Community, published by Artisan Books, has been named a Best New Cookbook of Spring 2023 by Food & Wine, Eater, Bon Appétit and more.

Much of her pastry work explores the relationship between baking and social justice, including ongoing collaborations with Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, a partnership which began in 2018 when Natasha was Executive Pastry Chef at Flora Bar at the Met Breuer Museum and organized baking workshops to raise funds and awareness for our community. Natasha continued her advocacy and activism throughout the pandemic by raising money for communities in need as she hosted pop-up dinners and created recipes that celebrated New York City’s rich diversity, while also launching online workshops with proceeds donated to the Neighborhood House. Through her efforts, Natasha has raised nearly $10,000 in support of our work and thousands more for others in need.

Currently, Natasha runs the pastry pop-up called Never Ending Taste, which has been held at NYC’s Superiority Burger, Brooklyn’s the Four Horsemen, the American-Vietnamese bakery Bạn Bè, the Taiwanese tearoom T. Company, Los Angeles’s Kismet and the legendary Chino Farm in Rancho Santa Fe, California.

Natasha’s recipes and writing have been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bon Appétit, Saveur, Food & Wine, New York magazine, Cherry Bombe and many other publications. Follow her on Instagram at @natashapickowicz.

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Elizabeth Rohatyn (1930–2016)
Lenox Hill Neighborhood House established the Elizabeth Rohatyn Award for Community Service in 1994 to honor Elizabeth Rohatyn, a past Board President and Honorary Chair of the Board of Directors. Mrs. Rohatyn, one of New York’s leading philanthropists, worked tirelessly to improve our organization and the lives of thousands in need. We are grateful for her many years of service and generous support, which have helped so many New Yorkers. In the spirit of her good work, Rohatyn Award recipients are selected for their outstanding commitment to Lenox Hill Neighborhood House and for their exemplary support of those in need in our community.

Recent Past Recipients of the Elizabeth Rohatyn Award for Community Service 2006-2022
The Barker Welfare Foundation
Lilliam Barrios-Paoli, Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services (former)
Gale Brewer
Citigroup: CitiLegal Pro Bono Initiative
Cristo Rey New York High School
Dechert LLP
Marian Detelj
The Frances L. & Edwin L. Cummings Memorial Fund
Maura D. Frank, M.D.
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Daniel R. Garodnick, City Council Member, 4th District (former)
Mark Gilbertson
Lila Gimbel
Allison Gorman, M.D., M.S.
JPMorgan Private Bank
Liz Krueger, New York State Senator, 28th District
Jessica S. Lappin, City Council Member, 5th District (former)
Mayer Brown LLP
Morgan Stanley
New York Life Insurance Company
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Rolex Watch U.S.A.
Patricia A. Romandetto
Robert Rufino
Saint Jean Baptiste High School
Saint Peter’s Church
Professor Barbara Schwartz
Rebecca A. Seawright, Assemblymember, 76th District
Christopher Spitzmiller
The Starr Foundation
David J. Stern
Sunny and Abe Rosenberg Foundation
Temple Emanu-El
Tiger Foundation
Barbara Turk, New York City Director of Food Policy (former)
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Melanie Wilson-Taylor, M.D.
The Women’s Association of The Brick Presbyterian Church

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