Gala 2021

What a night! CityStep enthusiasts, including 37 years of alumni, gathered to celebrate and support our continued growth. We watched, we chatted, we danced in our seats—and we met up at a fun virtual afterparty because we couldn’t say goodbye to one another. It was a resounding success!

Didn’t get a chance to support?
Please donate in honor of the Gala! Thank you so much.

Thank you to everyone who helped organize this event:

And thank you to everyone who attended and/or donated in honor of the Gala!

We exceeded our fundraising goal of $75,000! We now have hopes of raising more, to help
fund more staff and to support our launch of CityStep in the City of New York in the Fall!
If you are moved to help us step out, please donate in honor of the Gala!

Interested in sharing your CityStep story? Tell us here!

15 of the inspiring comments from the chat:

As a pediatrician, I am so happy to see this. This is so important for children and adolescents right now to heal from the last 15 months. To be with others, to feel happy, to be yourself, to strengthen ties, and MENTORSHIP. 100% what the doctor ordered for young people right now.
-Coco Auerswald


@Coco ditto, this warms my heart as a school psychologist how important the arts help foster that social and emotional learning -Chris Hernandez


So amazing to see that the core of what CITYSTEP was 30+ years is ago is still alive and so well… down to the moves and games!! —Donna Friedman Meir


I’m so, so happy to be here tonight and see this wonderful legacy carry on!  CityStep was the highlight of my college experience hands down.  Miss you all and great to see so many faces! —Vanessa Coke Cohen


The biggest shoutout to this year’s CitySteppers for making it happen during a pandemic. I’m so wholly impressed with this level of resilience to keep art and self-expression alive. —Jerry Nelluvelil


This is an EXTRAORDINARY group.  Such a privilege to be associated with such an amazing group of people.  Ooooooh. Ahhhhhh. —Chris Timchak


This is incredible. I am so in awe of all of you, and so proud to be part of this amazing family. CityStep had the greatest and most lasting impact on my life of anything during my time at Harvard. And I took very good care of that red boombox. —Katie Locke O'Brien


So proud to be a CityStep alum. I remember carrying the boom box and never being sure it would actually work when we got there!!! —Stephanie Firos Anestis


I was just telling our breakout room that there was also so much impact in bringing people together from all over Harvard into collaboration and community as teachers —Diane Paulus


Completely heartwarming! And the growth that has clearly remained diverse and inclusive. —Abbas A Hyderi


What about CityStep West coast? We can’t wait!! —Elizabeth Segal


Fantastic hour of inspiration and joy. —Linda Hanauer


I am tearing up. —Licia Hurst


I am just blown away by this evening! —Deborah Muro


This really is the CORE work that our world needs now. —Donna Friedman Meir