2025 Gala CHair

Ada Samuelsson has 30 years' experience at the UN in the area of economic development. She  is a Board Member of the Governor Jorge Pataki Center. A member of the Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine Steering Committee, she also serves on the advisory board of the department of dermatology of Mount Sinai. She is a model for mature women and the author of a book entitled "On My Own"-a collection of short stories produced as 10-15 episodes of her own personal reflections of the life of people near her-as she sees them. They are produced as a never-ending product of her imagination and curiosity, inclusive of  human nature.