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Love of Literacy Luncheon 2025
April 10 @ 11:30 am - 2:00 pm
Thank you to our Presenting Sponsor
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
Thank you to everyone who attended our 34th annual Love of Literacy Luncheon, held on April 10. This is Coalition’s signature event, bringing the community together to increase awareness of significant literacy needs and to raise crucial funds to support literacy programs serving our community from Jupiter to Boca Raton to Belle Glade.
“We’re pleased to have Victoria Christopher Murray join us as our guest speaker for this year’s celebration of literacy,” said Kristin Calder, CEO of the Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County. “Victoria’s well-known historical fiction novels are compelling and popular, and we are eager to read her newest novel, Harlem Rhapsody, being released in February. We know our community will be intrigued by Victoria’s own story, as well as the strong women featured in her novels.”
— Kristin Calder, Literacy Coalition CEO
34th Love of Literacy Luncheon
Thank you to our supporters and volunteers who joined us on April 10, 2025, at the Literacy Coalition’s 34th Love of Literacy Luncheon, presented by Bank of America, featuring New York Times and USA Today Best Selling author Victoria Christopher Murray. It was an inspiring and exciting day in celebration of literacy.
Ms. Murray is the author of more than 30 novels including two she co-wrote with Marie Benedict: The Personal Librarian about the remarkable story of J.P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who hid her true identity to leave a lasting legacy and The First Ladies about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune – an unlikely friendship that changed the world. Her latest book, Harlem Rhapsody, was released Feb. 4, 2025, and is inspired by the life of Jessie Redmon Fauset, the woman who ignited the Harlem Renaissance. With more than 3 million books in print, Victoria is one of the country’s top African American contemporary authors.
Thank You to our 2025 Sponsors
Presenting Sponsor Bank of America; Platinum Sponsors: Brenda Medore; Diamond Sponsors: Shawn M. Donnelley and Christopher M. Kelly, GL Homes, Nan Johnson and Robin Muir, Kosinski Family Foundation and Robinson Family Fund; Gold Sponsors: The Bonutti Family, Barbara & Len Gray, First Horizon Foundation, Gentle Medicine Associates, Inc., Greenberg Traurig, P.A., Lewis, Longman & Walker, P.A., Karen Rogers, SCAPS Medical, LLC, Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley, P.A. and The Palm Beach Post; Silver Sponsors: Akerman, LLP, Cozen O’Connor, Stephanie Kahlert, The LaFrance Project, The Lynch Family & Plastridge, Lynn University, Nason Yeager Gerson Harris & Fumero, P.A., Stephanie Pew, U.S. Bank and WPTV 5.
Thank you to the luncheon, co-chairs, Telsula C. Morgan of Lewis, Longman & Walker, P.A. and Lindsay M. Reinhart of Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley.
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THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
