Sponsorships and Tickets
SPONSORSHIP MENU:
$100,000 | PRESENTING SPONSOR
• Twenty-five (25) NAI student scholarships in your name
• Recognition from the podium
• Prominent seating for twenty-seven (27) guests and nine (9) gala seats for scholars and their parents/family representatives*
• Opportunities to meet and connect with NAI Scholars during the Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 semesters
• Presenting full-page color ad in the digital Gala Tribute Journal and event website**
• Recognition on the USC McMorrow NAI webpage for one year
• Multimedia Recognition at Dinner
$50,000 | DIAMOND SPONSOR
• Twelve (12) NAI student scholarships in your name
• Recognition from the podium
• Prominent seating for eighteen (18) guests and six (6) gala seats for scholars and their parents/family representatives*
• Opportunities to meet and connect with NAI Scholars during the Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 semesters
• Diamond full-page color ad in the digital Gala Tribute Journal and event website**
• Recognition on the USC McMorrow NAI webpage for one year
• Multimedia Recognition at Dinner
$25,000 | PLATINUM SPONSOR
• Six (6) NAI student scholarships in your name
• Prominent seating for nine (9) guests and three (3) gala seats for a scholar and their parents/family representatives*
• Opportunities to meet and connect with NAI Scholars during the Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 semesters
• Platinum full-page color ad in the digital Gala Tribute Journal and event website**
• Multimedia Recognition at Dinner
$15,000 | GOLD SPONSOR
• Four (4) NAI student scholarships in your name
• Premier seating for seven (7) guests and three (3) gala seats for a scholar and their parents/family representatives*
• Opportunities to meet and connect with NAI Scholars during the Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 semesters
• Gold full-page color ad in the digital Gala Tribute Journal and event website**
• Multimedia Recognition at Dinner
$10,000 | SILVER SPONSOR
• Two (2) NAI student scholarships in your name
• Preferred seating for seven (7) guests and three (3) gala seats for a scholar and their parents/family representatives*
• Silver full-page color ad in the digital Gala Tribute Journal**
$5,000 | FRIENDS OF NAI
• One (1) NAI book scholarship in your name
• Seating for four (4) guests
• Half-page color ad in the digital Gala Tribute Journal**
INDIVIDUAL TICKETS (16)
• Single Ticket $750
* Table sponsors will host one (1) NAI Scholar and their parents or guardians at their table
** Digital Gala Tribute Journal will be shared during dinner
Dinner contributions are tax-deductible except for $200 per person
DIGITAL GALA TRIBUTE JOURNAL
Full-Page Color $5,500 (Format: PDF file, JPEG, or TIF 26″ wide x 11″ high – full color 144 dpi)
Half-Page Color $3,000 (Format: PDF file, JPEG, or TIF – 13″ wide x 11″ high – full color – 144 dpi)
USC McMorrow NAI 2024 Gala & Awards Recap
NAI Scholar Spotlight Video
2025 Mistress of Ceremony
Sally Jaramillo
USC McMorrow NAI ’09
Weather and Traffic Anchor, Spectrum News 1 SoCal
Sally Jaramillo is a traffic and weather anchor at Spectrum News 1 SoCal. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Sally is overjoyed to finally be back home on the Golden Coast with her family, friends, and community.
Storytelling has been Sally’s passion since she first held a mic in her family’s talent shows. Early on, she knew she wanted to inspire, be a voice for her community, and change the world through journalism. She studied Media Studies and Spanish at Pitzer College, where she delivered the weather and a news segment for the school’s underground radio station, 88.7FM KSPC. Her dream of becoming a reporter then took her to KABC Los Angeles, where she worked as a news assistant and later as a traffic producer for the morning show. It was there that she learned everything she knows about news and met her mentors.
Following her time at KABC, Sally joined KIDY Fox News/KXVA Fox 15 in San Angelo and Abilene, Texas, working as a multimedia journalist, weather forecaster, and morning anchor. Sally then moved to Las Vegas, where she worked for 8 News Now as a weather anchor and general assignment reporter for nearly five years before joining the Spectrum News 1 team in 2022. In her current role, Sally hopes to inspire Southern California through her stories and share plenty of sunshine with her weather forecasts and traffic reports.
When she’s not working, Sally loves to travel, sing, spend time with her husband, family, and friends, and eat delicious food. Sally also enjoys giving back to her community with two mentoring organizations: Motivating Our Students Through Experience and USC’s Neighborhood Academic Initiative. Her biggest role model is her mother, who has shown her that through hard work and perseverance, you can make any dream a reality.
2025 Community Impact Award Honoree
Vincent Womack
Music Directory, James A. Foshay Learning Center
Adjunct Professor, University of Southern California Thorton School of Music
Conductor, African American Chamber Music Society Orchestra
2025 USC McMorrow NAI Champion Award
Carol Folt, PhD
Robert C. Packard President’s Chair
Dr. Carol Folt serves as the twelfth president of the University of Southern California and holds the Robert C. Packard President’s Chair.
Known for always placing students at the center, she is a collaborative academic leader and an internationally recognized life scientist with faculty appointments in biological sciences, civil and environmental engineering, and population and public health sciences.
Since joining USC in 2019, Dr. Folt has advanced academic excellence and innovation; increased accessibility and affordability; elevated belonging and inclusion; driven significant growth in the USC Health System; made meaningful advancements in sustainability; prioritized shared governance; enhanced USC’s winning legacy in athletics with honor and integrity; increased cross-school collaboration; built a new Capital Campus in the heart of Washington D.C., expanding USC’s role within the national conversation; amplified USC’s research enterprise; and established USC’s most comprehensive academic and research initiative, embedding ethics, analytics, and artificial intelligence across the university’s scholarly and creative work.
Dr. Folt serves as past chair of the Association of American Universities (AAU) Board of Directors, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2024.
Prior to USC, Dr. Folt served as chancellor of UNC-Chapel Hill and held several leadership appointments at Dartmouth College, including interim president, provost, dean of faculty, and Dartmouth Professor of Biological Sciences.
Dr. Folt is a distinguished scientist whose pioneering research on the effects of dietary mercury and arsenic on human and ecosystem health led to numerous national and global policy changes and consumption advisories.
Dr. Folt earned her bachelor’s degree in aquatic biology and a master’s degree in biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her doctorate in ecology from the University of California, Davis.
USC McMorrow NAI Gala Past Champion Honorees
2024 – Nicole Avant
2023 – Byron Allen
2022 – Richard Weitz andd Demi Weitz
2021 – Dr. Robert and Lisa Margolis and the Margolis Foundation
2020 – USC President Carol L. Folt
2019 – Leslie and Bill McMorrow
2018 – Pamela Buffet
2017 – The Ahmanson Foundation
2016 – Jeanie Buss
2015 – Joan A. Payden
2014 – Patrick C. Haden
2013 – Mónica Lozano, CEO of ImpreMedia, LLC