NEW YORK, Dec. 01, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — First Responder’s Youngsters’s Basis (FRCF) is happy to announce that Walt Disney Firm lawyer Toni Lupo has joined its board of administrators.
Ms. Lupo serves as Principal Counsel at Hulu, a Disney entity, the place she offers authorized counsel in reference to content material distribution agreements for Hulu + Reside TV and premium add-on companies. She has been named by Tremendous Attorneys Journal as a “Rising Star” and The Greatest Attorneys in America as each “Ones to Watch” within the Leisure and Sports activities Regulation class and “Ladies in The Regulation: Ones to Watch” the previous two years in a row. Previous to becoming a member of Hulu/TWDC, Toni labored as a senior lawyer in a premier world apply group the place she supplied transactional counsel to purchasers throughout the media and leisure business (together with, with out limitation, tv networks, streaming companies, sports activities groups, video and cell recreation builders and software program firms).
“Toni Lupo is a superb leisure lawyer with a ardour for serving her neighborhood and broader civic pursuits, together with her highly effective advocacy for company variety, equality, fairness and inclusion practices,” mentioned FRCF President and CEO Jillian Crane. “First Responders Youngsters’s Basis is proud and grateful so as to add Toni to its Board of Administrators, which is able to profit enormously from her dedication to supporting first responders and their households.”
“A neighborhood is just as robust as those that actively take part in it,” Ms. Lupo mentioned. “First responders put themselves on the road to guard the communities wherein they serve day-after-day. It’s my honor and privilege to hitch this esteemed board of administrators for the First Responders Youngsters’s Basis in order that we might higher serve their households and provides again to those that have given a lot for us.”
“I am delighted to welcome Toni Lupo to the Board of First Responders Youngsters’s Basis. I labored with Toni at Greenberg Traurig, the place she distinguished herself as an excellent lawyer, and not too long ago obtained recognition in each Tremendous Lawyer’s Journal and The Greatest Attorneys in America,” mentioned Larry Levy, First Responders Youngsters’s Basis Board of Administrators Vice Chair. “Toni has at all times been among the many first to volunteer to assist, together with her work on the John A. Reisenbach Basis, the place she helped fund organizations that affect New York’s most susceptible communities. With Toni’s current transfer to the Walt Disney Firm because the Principal Counsel for Hulu, she’s going to be capable to put her nice expertise, vitality, and compassion to serving to the First Responder Neighborhood.”
About First Responders Youngsters’s Basis (FRCF)
First Responders Youngsters’s Basis is a nationwide basis that gives applications and sources that tackle the precise wants of kids of first responders. The Basis focuses on important areas, together with scholarships, monetary help grants; bereavement help, psychological well being counseling for kids; and Neighborhood Engagement. FRCFwas based over 21 years in the past in response to 9/11 when 800 youngsters misplaced a primary responder dad or mum. FRCF additionally helps first responder households enduring vital monetary hardship on account of tragic circumstances, together with damage within the line of obligation.
Further details about FRCF will be discovered at www.1stRCF.org and on Fb, Twitter, and Instagram @1strcf.
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