Black-ish Star Marsai Martin and TV Journalist Tanika Ray Honored by HBCU Spelman College’s Alumnae Association in Los Angeles

15-year old producer, entrepreneur, and award-winning actor Marsai Martin (Black-ish, Little) and Television Host/Journalist Tanika Ray (Spelman College, C ‘94 ) were among the honorees for the National Alumnae Association of Spelman College – Los Angeles Chapter’s Sisters’ Awards Brunch.

In its 26th year, the brunch has raised more than $530,000 in scholarship funds for incoming Spelman freshman from the Los Angeles area.

Hosted by The National Alumnae Association of Spelman College – Los Angeles Chapter, and Emmy Award-winning former Access Hollywood journalist Shaun Robinson (Spelman College, C’84), the event also honored founding president of Ward Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) and LA Metro Board Member, Jacquelyn Dupont-Walker, and Spelman Deborah Prothrow-Stith, MD (C’75), who serves as the dean of Charles R. Drew University College of Medicine. 

Spelman alumna and journalist Shaun Robinson on the blue carpet of the 2020 Sisters’ Awards brunch. (photo credit: Kerry James)

The 2020 NAASC-LA’s Sisters Awards was made possible by the support of our Gold Level Sponsor Facebook, Silver Level Sponsors First United Bank and Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education & Psychology, and Bronze Sponsors Walt Disney Studios, Ward Economic Development, and the Los Angeles Phil Harmonic.

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