Honorary Co-Sponsors
These honorary co-sponsors have all lent their names and offered their support to the mission and vision of our organization.
Norman Lear.
National Medal of the Arts winner, featured in video above.
Kathleen Turner.
Actor.
Barbra Streisand.
Actor and singer.
Charles E. Schumer.
US Senator (NY).
Wei Jingsheng.
Chinese Human Rights Defender and Democracy Activist.
Kirsten Gillibrand.
US Senator (NY).
John Lewis.
US Representative (GA) and Civil Rights hero (deceased).
Bernie Sanders.
US Senator (VT).
Amy Poehler, Actor
Senator Ben Cardin (MD)
Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD)
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY)
Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez (NY)
Former Congressman Keith Ellison (MN)
Congressman James P. McGovern (MA)
Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD)
Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (IL)
Congresswoman Norma Torres (CA)
Congressman Ted Lieu (CA)
Assemblywoman Deborah Glick (NY)
Councilman and Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer (NYC)
Institutional Partners
In addition to receiving support from hundreds of individuals, the IHRAM has benefitted from donations from a growing cadre of foundations, businesses, governmental agencies, and media partners, including:
Other Partnerships
wild project
The Wild Project hosts our annual festival. The performance space is a theater, film, music, and visual arts venue that presents diverse, engaging, inspiring, and entertaining works to the vibrant and growing community of Alphabet City in New York’s East Village. Founded in 2007, the Wild Project is an innovator among arts venues, providing an eco-friendly theater and gallery where the artists and space nurture each other.
NYC Commission on Human Rights
The NYCCHR works with us to devise programming, aid in audience outreach and continue to show their commitment to using art to raise awareness of and provide healing energy for the struggle for human and civil rights, in NYC and beyond.
Muslim-Jewish Solidarity Committee
Together, we create and sponsor the Shalom/Salaam creative retreat. MJSC is a grassroots community where Jews, Muslims, and all are welcome. We build relationships to stand against hate through shared values and social action.
Yahad in Unum Mid-America
Yahad in Umum Mid-America was set up to support the work of Father Patrick Desbois. His work seeks to unsilence the story of specific genocides during World War II of Jewish and Roma peoples. He has also recently expanded his mission to include the Yazidi massacres, and to raise awareness of the ongoing catastrophe of genocides in general.
Society of Young Nigerian Writers
SYNW began in 2010 as an University of Ibadan literary movement to create an avenue for upcoming writers to share ideas, criticize and network with one another. SYNW offers courses, workshops and competitions to support young Nigerian writers, often around the most pressing social issues.
Wikitongues
Together we are developing a series of programming around the Language of Art. Wikitongues is an organization providing the tools and resources needed for language documentation and sustainability.
Success Capital
Success Capital is based in the outskirts of Gaborone, the capital city of Botswana. It is a youth led, managed and serving organisation with national, regional and global reach. Working on moving its primary constituents, LGBTIQ+ Youth, from survival to success.
Sotambe Documentary Film & Arts Festival
Sotambe was established in 2014 to educate and raise awareness of social issues through film and arts.