Maya Penn: Salute to Greatness Dinner 2014

Maya Penn is a 21 year old award-winning eco-designer, artist, philanthropist, activist, entrepreneur, animated filmmaker, coder, illustrator, writer and author of You Got This! She has been featured in countless publications such as Forbes, Huffington Post, Seventeen Magazine, Cosmopolitan, The View, NPR,CNN, TIME, Essence Magazine, CBS This Morning with Gayle King, O Magazine, The Steve Harvey Show, Entrepreneur Magazine, Ebony, Black Enterprise, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, and many, many more. Maya has given three TEDTalks and her latest TEDWomen Talk has gone viral worldwide and with almost 2 million views and growing. She is known as the youngest female to do two back-to-back official TEDTalks. Maya has been chosen by Oprah Winfrey as one of her Supersoul 100 influencers. Google has partnered with Maya to speak to girls about coding and computer science at their Made With Code events. Magic Johnson chose Maya to be featured in his 32 Under 32 article series.

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Salute to Greatness Dinner 2014

I attended the King Center's Salute to Greatness Awards Dinner for my second year! :)

This annual event honors the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his family. This year, in addition to the Observance of the 85th birthday celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, and the 28th anniversary of the Martin Luther King Holiday, it was the 51st anniversary of Dr. King's historic "I Have a Dream" speech. The 2014 Salute to Greatness Awards Dinner honored Muhammad Ali, Xerox Inc., Pakistani anti-violence advocate Khalida Brohi and One Billion Rising and award-winning playwright Eve Ensler.

Me and my beautiful friend and she-ro Eve Ensler, award-winning playwright and founder of One Billion Rising.

My new friend and Pakistani anti-violence advocate Khalida Brohi, Me, and my mom. :)

Me and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed. It was great to see him again!

It was great seeing my friend Megan Smith again! We both spoke at TEDWomen 2013. I also got to meet Father Frank, and Megan's two sons. :)

The amazing night was ended with me and many other amazing honorees and activists on stage singing "We shall overcome"

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8 O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

8 The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

9 O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!