Join us for The Alliance’s 25th Anniversary Impact Awards!
In 2025, The Alliance marks 25 years of advocacy, action, and survivor-centered systems change. To celebrate this milestone, we’ll be honoring those who have made powerful contributions to addressing sexual violence in New York City and State. We’ll also spotlight the urgent work still ahead.
🗓️ Wednesday, September 10th, 6-8:30pm
📍G Gallery, 404 Broadway, Manhattan
🎟️ Get your tickets here.
Meet our 2025 Impact Award Recipients!
2025 Community Impact Champion of the Year: Brittany Chambers
Brittany Chambers serves as the Enough is Enough Coordinator and Restorative Justice Coordinator at Kingsbridge Heights Community Center, where she leads with compassion and purpose. Her lifelong passion for advocating on behalf of domestic violence survivors has fueled her tireless work to support survivors and promote healing.
She is equally committed to creating pathways of opportunity for youth, working to ensure that children and teens are safe, empowered, and encouraged to reach their full potential. As a teen basketball coach, she has used mentorship and teamwork to build confidence and resilience in young people.
In addition to her community-based work, she is a strong advocate for prison reform, believing deeply in rehabilitation and second chances. Her work reflects a powerful mission, to uplift voices that are too often unheard, challenge systems that perpetuate harm, and build a future rooted in justice, equity, and care.
“Receiving the Community Impact Champion award for teaching Project DOT means so much to me because it reflects the impact I’ve made in students’ lives. I’ve poured my heart into creating a safe, empowering space where they can grow, learn, and feel seen. This recognition reminds me that every lesson and every connection mattered.”
– Brittany Chambers, Enough is Enough Coordinator and Restorative Justice Coordinator at Kingsbridge Heights Community
2025 Community Impact Team of the Year: The Collective
The Collective is represented by the Executive Directors and CEO’s of Korean American Family Service Center (KAFSC), Sakhi for South Asian Survivors (Sakhi), Sauti Yetu Center for African Women and Families, Violence Intervention Program (VIP) and Womankind.
The Collective works to center immigrants, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) and survivors in policy-making efforts that address Gender Based Violence (GBV) in New York City. They are uniquely positioned for this work because we are the only group of culturally specific, gender justice organizations and organizers that work for immigrant and BIPOC survivors in New York City. They are bold innovators and courageous activists seeking change from within our communities, in solidarity with others. They work at the intersections of gender, racial and cultural discrimination, immigration and violence.
“We are deeply honored to receive the Community Impact Team of the Year Award from The Alliance. As The Collective — KAFSC, Sakhi, Sauti Yetu, VIP, and Womankind, — we know that lasting safety for survivors is rooted from culturally specific, community-let care.. Our partnership with The Alliance has strengthened our ability to advocate, collaborate, and build collective safety across New York State. This recognition affirms the transformative power of cross community solidarity– uniting diverse languages, cultures and lived experiences– to ensure every survivor is seen, heard, and their power is centered. We accept this award on behalf of the survivors we serve and the shared vision that guides us: a future free from gender-based violence.”
– The Collective
2025 Survivor Justice Advocate of the Year: Jessica Schafroth
Jessica Schafroth is VP of Government Affairs at Malkin & Ross, where she’s led major legislative wins in survivor, worker, and housing justice, along with issues related to immigrant rights, health care, domestic violence, and civil rights since 2004. Jessica is responsible for passing landmark legislation such as the Wage Theft Prevention Act, Child Victims Act, Adult Survivors Act, Good Cause Eviction legislation, the 2020 police reform package, the Family Health Care Decisions Act, and the Fashion Workers Act in 2024. She has also helped win billions in funding for excluded workers, health and legal services, secured a minimum wage increase, and played key roles in passing the DREAM Act, Green Light NY, the medical marijuana law, and the Fight for $15.
Jessica is a survivor of childhood sexual assault, and her personal experience has fueled her drive to create expanded civil pathways for other survivors. She fought off efforts by the former governor and IDC to water down the Child Victims Act and led a large and diverse coalition of survivors to uncompromising victory on that legislation in 2019. The following year, she led the effort to reopen the CVA window due to the COVID-19 crisis and went on to pass the Adult Survivors Act two years later. In 2023, Jessica created the Survivor Justice Coalition, which went on to lead the effort to protect the ASA from court challenges in 2024 and that passed groundbreaking protections for incarcerated survivors in the 2025 legislative session.
Jessica is a mom to ten-year old Paidin and a true friend and ally to those who work in our field.
“I am deeply humbled to receive this award, particularly from an organization I admire so much. It is so important to create pathways to healing and justice for survivors and it’s been an absolute privilege to be trusted with this work. The work I have done in coalition with so many amazing men and women has been the honor of my lifetime. I look forward to continuing the mission of the survivor justice coalition and I thank the Alliance for their leadership, friendship, audacity and unwavering support.”
– Jessica Schafroth, Vice President, Government Affairs at Malkin & Ross
2025 Systemic Change Leader of the Year: Governor Kathy Hochul
Kathy Hochul is the 57th and first female Governor of New York State. She began her career in public service on her local Town Board, before serving as Erie County Clerk, a Member of Congress for New York’s 26th Congressional District, and Lieutenant Governor.
Since being sworn into office in 2021, Governor Hochul has led by establishing a bold vision for New York’s future. She has spearheaded comprehensive policies and initiatives to help New Yorkers and their families, while building an economy that is stronger and more inclusive than before. Governor Hochul is making historic investments in the people, places, and things to make that happen – from healthcare workers, small businesses, and working families to infrastructure, education, and workforce development. And in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s reckless decisions to strip away abortion rights and strike down commonsense gun regulations, she led the charge to protect reproductive health care and strengthen gun safety laws, ensuring New York continues to stand as a beacon of hope and freedom for the rest of the nation.
In 2025, Governor Hochul made the largest investment in sexual violence response that New York State has seen in over ten years. This included doubled funding for rape crisis programs and child advocacy centers and a first-of-its-kind mandate requiring all hospitals across the state to provide access to trained Sexual Assault Forensic Examiners.
Governor Hochul was born and raised in Western New York. She and her husband, Bill Hochul, are the proud parents of two children and two granddaughters.
